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about Books and literature.
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 Contextless List of Books 2023
Vincennes Review of Books 2023 is here!Key:* = Excellent, highly recommend~ = Actively bad, do not recommendFirst readsThe Book of Form & Emptiness–Ruth OzekiLove in Idleness–Charlotte Mendelson Straight Man–Richard Russo *The Complete Magazine Stories of …
By Alex Mitchell, 266 words
Amy Smith Literature
Teaching and studying English Literature and Language at Key Stages 3, 4, and 5.
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Updated 4 months ago
Historical fiction reading recommendations (Summer 2024)
Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting …
By Amy Smith, 1,391 words
Ana Ulin · Blog
This is a grab bag of annotations accrued over the many years this site has existed.
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Updated 2 years ago
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 …
Anecdotal Evidence
A blog about the intersection of books and life.
By Patrick Kurt.
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'The Scabrous Memory Writhes Here, Underneath'
I’ve just learned that some thirty percent of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is paved, covered in concrete and asphalt. That doesn’t count buildings and other structures. It amounts to roughly 384 square miles of …
By Patrick Kurp, 737 words
Awful Library Books
Hoarding is not collection development.
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Updated a year ago
Not Goodbye, but See Ya Later
Hi everyone! You may have noticed that we’ve slowed down a bit on posting, approving comments, and, well, pretty much our whole end of the deal. We’d like to say we’re just too busy and …
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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Updated a year ago
New Poetry Collection
My new poetry pamphlet from Melos Press, The Dictionary Speaks, is now out and can be ordered post-free via this link.From the publisher’s blurb:-NICHOLAS MURRAY’S many books include poetry, two novels, critically acclaimed biographies of …
By Nicholas Murray, 190 words
Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books
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The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke
I liked Clarke's previous novel, Piranesi (I reviewed it here on Jan. 12, 2022), so the idea of a new book by her attracted my attention. Disappointment after disappointment followed. First, I learned the book …
By Bibliopolitan, 222 words
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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Bloom Creative Writing: “Til It’s Gone,” by Alexis Levitin
With this work by Alexis Levitin, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book of poetry or fiction at 40 or after, or who have yet to …
By joeschuster3, 2,333 words
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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Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data
‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so …
By georgeharryjames1, 3,274 words
The Book Haven
Cynthia L. Haven's blog for the written word.
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“There is no art that I love more than opera,” says Dana Gioia. And he’s written a book to prove it.
Poet and former National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia has been busy. He’s just published a spate of new books: Poetry as Enchantment and Other Essays (Paul Dry Books); Dana Gioia: Poet & …
By Cynthia Haven, 493 words
Book Jotter
Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.
By Paula Bardell-Hedley.
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Winding Up the Week #401
An end of week recap “I am simply a ‘book drunkard’. Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” – L. M. Montgomery (born 30th …
By Paula Bardell-Hedley, 2,873 words
Books and Pictures
recording reading and pictures.
By Cassin.
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Updated a year ago
Friend’s cat
This is my friend’s lovely cat who died recently.
Boris Dralyuk
Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.
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“On the Planet’s Edge”: Abram Katsnelson Sees Kyiv in Los Angeles
Most of the émigré Angeleno poets whose work I’ve shared here over the years wrote in Russian, though some of them had roots in Ukraine and even identified as Ukrainian. Today I bring you a …
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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Little Reviews, Lots of Books: The Children’s Edition
No Boats on Bannermere by Geoffrey Trease (1949) – the Trease book I really wanted to track down this year was Mist Over Athelney but, failing to do so, I chose instead this refreshingly modern …
By Claire (The Captive Reader), 1,454 words
Chapati Mystery
a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan.
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Slow Burn Lahore Ends
The journey is over, gentle readers. Today is the publishing birthday for Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore from The New Press. This book answers (to my satisfaction, if no …
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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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Xmas Scenes: Murder Among the Rich
We’re into December, so it’s time for the annual Clothes in Books trope of Christmas in Books – seasonal scenes from random books, for no better reason than I like looking for the pictures, and …
By Clothes In Books, 918 words
Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RODEN] TBOT Pre-order Campaign: GO!
Roden Readers — Hello from very much the season of doing. Good lord. The end of the year. The shove-it-all-in sprint. The air is crisp and the runs are good and we’re still on the …
A Common Reader
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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Updated 8 months ago
Fool by Peter K. Andersson
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Manby Peter K. AnderssonPrinceton University Press, 2023 The posthumous image of him has been entangled with the real individual, and no one has really fully tried to disentangle …
David's Book World
Adventures in reading.
By David Hebblethwaite.
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Stories from Taiwan: ká-sióng, Part 1
Strangers Press is a publishing project based at the University of East Anglia, specialising in sets of strikingly designed chapbooks, with stories in translation. Their latest project is ká-sióng, a collection of five tales from …
By David Hebblethwaite, 641 words
The Dusty Bookcase
A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.
By Brian Busby.
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The Globe 100 133 of 1924: Hammond's Organ
The Globe 100 was published ten days ago – November 22nd – so this annual look at the newspaper's best book picks of a century past may seem late.It is not. November is far too …
By Brian Busby, 898 words