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Blogs about Books and literature

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51 blogs about Books and literature.

  1. Alex Mitchell – Medium
    “Collected the Complete Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edits the Feminist Friday newsletter. Also I’m a data analyst.” 🇬🇧

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    Vincennes Big List of Books 2022
    Vincennes Review of Books 2022 is here!Key:* = Excellent, highly recommend~ = Actively bad, do not recommendFirst readsThe Dinner — Herman Koch Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston Naples ’44 — Norman …
    By Alex Mitchell, 578 words

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  2. Ana Ulin · Blog
    “This is a grab bag of annotations accrued over the many years this site has existed.” 🇺🇸

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    Book Notes: Light From Uncommon Stars
    Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Read Apr 4, 2022 - Apr 10, 2022 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a lovely book, filled with lovable characters and feeling. It is a novel about food, music, and …
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  3. Anecdotal Evidence
    “A blog about the intersection of books and life.” By Patrick Kurt. 🇺🇸

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    'The Price for Biting Wit'
    The best conversations are unscripted and without agenda. As to content, they start from zero. Both parties spark and connect like neurons firing in the brain. No dead zones, no echoing silences. I spent almost …
    By Patrick Kurp, 422 words

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  4. Awful Library Books
    “Hoarding is not collection development.”

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    Planet X will destroy us…in 2003
    Blindsided: Planet X passes in 2033: Earthchanges! Hazlewood (2nd Ed.) 2001 Submitter: This amazing conspiracy rant explains how the media, all the governments (except Putin’s Russia) and society in general suppress the truth that Planet …
    By Holly, 115 words

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  5. The Bibliophilic Blogger
    “"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.” By Nicholas Murray. 🇬🇧

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    What Happened to the Poetry?
    The Guardian 2023 New Poetry Choices: A Found PoemA bold debut collectiondelving into Blackness,trauma, sexuality and the divine;poems of gender, transformationand the body in a collection aboutauthenticity and conformity;the personal is political in a collectionreckoning …
    By Nicholas Murray, 979 words

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  6. Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books

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    Pictures of Apocalypse, by Thomas Ligotti
    Thomas Ligotti, as a prose writer, is one of the best post-Lovecraftian horror writers. He has also published a small number of poem cycles, and Pictures of Apocalypse is I think the fifth of these. …
    By Bibliopolitan, 249 words

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  7. Bloom | "Late" According to Whom?
    “Where you’ll encounter authors whose first books were published when they were 40 or older; who bloomed in their own good time.”

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    Oldest Female Debut Novelist Tells All
    by Bobbie Jean Huff I was 12 when I wrote my first novel. It was four pages long, and in it Martha, the butt of bullying by her eighth-grade classmates, graduates top of her class. …
    By Alice Stephens, 1,212 words

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  8. Blue Labyrinths
    “An online magazine focusing on literature, philosophy, and a collection of interesting ideas.” By Matt Bluemink, Jens Branum, Alba Noguera, et al. 🇬🇧 🇳🇱

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    The Story-Creature Anomaly: Jeff Vandermeer and Digital Ecosystems
    There’s an argument to be made about how narratives shape our perception of many things. A story can go beyond its stated power and intent through means of being seen with a different perspective, interpreted …
    By Emilio Dijard, 2,698 words

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  9. Book Jotter
    “Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.” By Paula Bardell-Hedley. 🇬🇧

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    Winding Up the Week #324
    An end of week recap “It was an American who said that while a Frenchman’s truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman’s truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it …
    By Paula Bardell-Hedley, 2,073 words

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  10. Books and Pictures
    “recording reading and pictures.” By Cassin. 🇬🇧

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    A hot black cat and a ferociously-groomed white dog
    Cat is mine, dog is not.
    By cassincork, 15 words

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  11. Book Snob
    “FOR DISCERNING READERS.” 🇬🇧

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    November
    The leaves have turned, the nights have drawn in. The air smells different; peaty and smoky, suffused with the slight mustiness of mouldering leaves. Already I find myself wanting to hibernate; I’d rather be burrowed …
    By Book Snob, 1,358 words

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  12. Boris Dralyuk
    “Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.” 🇺🇸

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    “The Unkillable Poor”: Dana Gioia and Alexander Voloshin at the Crossroads
    Last week saw the publication of Dana Gioia’s Meet Me at the Lighthouse, a perfect collection of poems. Dana has been a mentor and a friend to me, but had he and I never met, …
    By bdralyuk, 892 words

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  13. The Captive Reader
    “20th Century middlebrow fiction, domestic Victorian novels, volumes of correspondence, gossipy diaries, books about European history, and almost anything having to do with Jane Austen.” By Claire. 🇨🇦

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    Notes from New Zealand – the North Island
    View of Russell, in Bay of Islands on my very first morning in New Zealand My first month in New Zealand has flown by. It’s been a fantastic trip so far and literally every place …
    By Claire (The Captive Reader), 210 words

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  14. Chapati Mystery
    “a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan.” By sepoy. 🇺🇸

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    Slow Burn Lahore Redux
    Much earlier, as in 2012, I wrote a series of small things that were meant for a book that I was then planning and researching. My intention was to write a cult(ur)o-geography of Lahore, a …
    By {"display_name"=>"sepoy"}, 612 words

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  15. Clothes In Books
    “Description of clothes taken from a book, a picture suggested by (rather than illustrative of) the words, plus some observations.” 🇬🇧

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    Fox 8 by George Saunders
    published 2018 Who knows where George Saunders’ head is coming from? I loved his Lincoln in the Bardo, which resembles no other book. And I love this short story, Fox 8 – beautifully tricked out …
    By Clothes In Books, 580 words

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  16. Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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    [RIDGELINE] Walking Around Kan Yasuda's Sculptures
    Ridgeliners — I made a little trip to Hokkaido the other week. It had two purposes: To hang out with a good friend (which is what 90% of all my non-walk-related travel is centered around; …
    By Craig Mod, 77 words

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  17. A Common Reader NEW
    “A way to sort through my thoughts about what I read and organize my notes. I hope it can provide readers a resource for classics, hard-to-find books, and non-fiction works.” 🇺🇸

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    New translation: On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger
    I just noticed where NYRB Classics has released a new translation of Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs. My brief notes on New Directions’ 1947 translation by Stuart Hood can be found here. I highly …
    By Dwight, 364 words

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  18. The Dusty Bookcase
    “A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.” By Brian Busby. 🇨🇦

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    By Any Other Name: Onoto Watanna's Hyacinth
    The Heart of HyacinthOnoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton]New York: Harper, 1903251 pagesRead last month, I've put off writing about The Heart of Hyacinth because I still don't know what to think. To begin with, this is …
    By Brian Busby, 854 words

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  19. Electric Literature - Home
    “Reading into everything.” 🇺🇸

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    Queer Villains Are Vital to Understanding Queer History
    Whether or not you’ve watched season 2 of The White Lotus, Mike White’s anthology series, you’ve witnessed Jennifer Coolidge’s frenzied intonations onboard a yacht: “These gays, they’re trying to murder me!” Coolidge plays Tanya, a …
    By Robert Stinner, 2,441 words

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  20. Eric Idle Blog
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    Current Reading
    Regeneration Pat Barker 1917 Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart. What to do with one of theirs who protests the war. With Wilfred Owen. The Eye in the Door Pat Barker The next in the series. I …
    By Eric Idle, 1,541 words

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