Blogs about Books and literature
62 blogs about Books and literature.
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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 …
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Amy Smith Literature
Teaching and studying English Literature and Language at Key Stages 3, 4, and 5.
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Jekyll and Hyde Character Analysis 4: Dr Lanyon Stevenson first introduces Dr Hastie Lanyon when Utterson goes to seek his help. Lanyon is described as a “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman… [with] a boisterous and decided manner”. Here, Stevenson is at pains to …
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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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Anecdotal Evidence
A blog about the intersection of books and life.
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'Painstakingly Logical and Precise' A thought that never occurred to me but feels self-evidently right: “In the course of a reading life, one often stumbles on excellent prose writers never before encountered; such discoveries, however, are less likely in …
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Awful Library Books
Hoarding is not collection development.
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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 …
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The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
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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 …
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Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books
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Jackal, Jackal, by Tobi Ogundiran Jackal, Jackal is a collection of some eighteen stories ("tales of the dark and fantastic" according to the book's subtitle) by Nigerian physician and writer Tobi Ogundiran, who wrote his first two stories (both collected …
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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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Storytelling pines, grieving birds, and braided voices of the South: Q&A with Marjorie Hudson Valerie Nieman spoke with Marjorie Hudson about her debut novel Indigo Field. To understand Marjorie Hudson, you must walk with her—through the huge garden where she and husband Sam raise a lot of their food …
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Blue Labyrinths
An online magazine focusing on literature, philosophy, and a collection of interesting ideas.
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Music or Barbarism: Dos Atomos by Dos Monos On the 31st of May 2024, Dos Monos, the experimental hip-hop group formed by Zo Zhit, Taitan, and NGS, returns to the music of the past in order to plunder it. If the American theorist …
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The Book Haven
Cynthia L. Haven's blog for the written word.
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Visiting old friends in Kraków… I paid a visit to an old friend today. Last time we visited was six years ago at her temporary digs in Wawel Castle, on a bitterly cold winter day in Kraków – and Polish …
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Book Jotter
Reviews, news, features and all things books for passionate readers.
By Paula Bardell-Hedley. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Winding Up the Week #385 An end of week recap “To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.” – Jeanette Winterson This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my …
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Books and Pictures
recording reading and pictures.
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Friend’s cat This is my friend’s lovely cat who died recently.
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Boris Dralyuk
Essays, Translations, and Other Writings.
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“They Pursue Their Fabulous Dream”: A Late Californian Poem by Mary Custis Vezey Mary Custis Vezey in Harbin, 1920s A couple of days ago, on Twitter, I broke some splendid news about Vernon Duke. His memoir, Passport to Paris, which has been out of print since 1955, will …
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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.
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Library Loot: July 24 to 30 Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like …
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Chapati Mystery
a "quaint blog" established in April 2004. It focuses on histories and cultures of Hindustan.
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Aniruddha Bose (1980-2024) Remembering Rahul: A tribute by Rohit Chopra Aniruddha Bose, Associate Professor of History at Saint Francis University, passed away on March 31, 2024 from brain cancer. Aniruddha was a remarkable person and brilliant scholar, soft-spoken …
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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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Notting Hill Mysteries and Anabel Donald's London The Loop by Anabel Donald published 1996 Having recently read and blogged on two of Anabel Donald’s books, I ended up reading all her crime stories. I seem to have been writing about London a …
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Collected Essays of Craig Mod
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[RIDGELINE] Tōkaidō on Film — People Ridgeline subscribers — Hello! It’s been ages (well, a month or so) — I’m in constant scramble mode (or is it burnout mode?) these days. Finishing up the Random House edition of Things Become Other …
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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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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 …
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David's Book World
Adventures in reading.
By David Hebblethwaite. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Galley Beggar Press: Mary and the Rabbit Dream by Noémi Kiss-Deáki Noémi Kiss-Deáki is a writer from Åland who writes fiction in English. Galley Beggar Press have recently published her debut novel, which is inspired by the story of Mary Toft, a poor eighteenth-century Englishwoman who …
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The Dusty Bookcase
A journey through Canada's forgotten, neglected and suppressed writing.
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A Mid-Century Modern Country House Mystery Harsh EvidencePamela FryLondon: Wingate, 1953172 pagesBecause this is a Canadian country house mystery, the house isn't terribly old and servants not so numerous. Rocky Crest is located on a private island in a lake somewhere …