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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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The Paris Review's contributors' favorite books of 2019
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ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
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How to get a book deal in ten years or less
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Decidedly Bad - War Of The Spark: The Forsaken - A Magic: The Gathering Novel by Greg Weisman
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What are you reading these days?
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Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony
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GQ has selected their favorite books of 2019, and asked each book's author to make their own recommendation
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How Chinese sci-fi conquered America: The translator Ken Liu has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers
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Stellaris Recommends: Sci-fi book recommendations from the team behind Paradox's grand-strategy-in-space game, including notes on prominent tropes and what each book does well.
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Faith and Reasons: Two authors explore the persistence of religious feeling
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Nobel prize for literature hit by fresh round of resignations – two members of the external committee set up to oversee reforms quit on Monday
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E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers
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China threatened Sweden with unspecified counter measures if its culture minister attends a literary award ceremony for Gui Minhai
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Book review: Turn the Ship Around
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Book-focused Discord server
Howdy, I think this might appeal to some of you, sorry if it comes off a bit spammy. I've started a Discord server mostly for discussion of books (Other things too...our rule is if it's text-based...
Howdy, I think this might appeal to some of you, sorry if it comes off a bit spammy. I've started a Discord server mostly for discussion of books (Other things too...our rule is if it's text-based or if it's printed on a page, it's allowed. We welcome interactive fiction, comics, poetry, theory, visual novels, etc.) that is aiming to keep discussion at least somewhat serious and a respectful atmosphere similar to what Tildes aims for. Eventually we'll do wider recruitment (posters in universities, probably), but for now we're trying to get a decent server culture going with people we can trust to not shit all over everything. If this sounds appealing, we'd love to have you :)
Paste with rules, should look familiar.
Permanent link for those who would like to join: https://discord.gg/yr4pA96
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What are you reading these days?
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Like This Or Die - The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm
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Helsinki Library has robots to help reshelve books – they get a lot of press attention but they're not the important part of the library
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Upon This Rock (from Pulphead: Essays)
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The life of the audiobook star: As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day
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The smell of old books could actually help experts preserve them
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Ten must-read crime books set in the American West
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What are you reading these days?
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland
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Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
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“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias
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Marvel Unlimited offering two month free trial through Target
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How to live like Jane Austen
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Book Review: French Tanks of the Great War
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What are you reading these days?
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What are you reading these days?
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Fascinated to Presume: In defense of fiction
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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"Where The Crawdad's Sing" Book Review
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Is Tolkien's prose really that bad?
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so...
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so I was wondering what the general consensus here is.
The first time I read through The Lord of the Rings, I found myself getting bored of all the songs and the poems and the large stretches between any action, I felt that the pacing was far too slow and I found that I had to force myself to struggle through the book to get to the exciting parts that I had seen so many times in the films. Upon reading through The Lord of the Rings again recently my experience has been completely different and I've fallen in love with his long and detailed descriptions of nature, and the slower pacing.
Has anyone else experienced something similar when reading his works? Are there more valid criticisms of his prose that extend beyond a craving for the same high-octane action of the films?
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Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
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Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
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Review: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
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The 2019 National Book Awards finalists announced
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What are you reading these days? #29
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes We're coming up on #30! Exciting! Previous...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
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We're coming up on #30! Exciting!
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Snowden in the Labyrinth
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A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
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Book review - Turn Of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Turn of Mind is a mystery. It's for the most part written in journal format. Interestingly it's a journal that sits in the house of a person with Alzheimer's disease. Jennifer White was an...
Turn of Mind is a mystery. It's for the most part written in journal format. Interestingly it's a journal that sits in the house of a person with Alzheimer's disease.
Jennifer White was an orthopedic surgeon in Chicago. Once brilliant, Dr. White is now in the later stages of the disease and the journal is written in by family members and housekeepers to help her remember who she was and who she is. A fractured portrait emerges of a cold and strong minded woman who has had a full life that she remembers in bits and pieces. Amidst the pages is mention of a neighbor, Amanda, who has been murdered. Slowly things come together for the reader while Dr. White's disease progresses into confusion.
Yet she still has moments of lucidity, remembering the details of her profession, where she was considered one of the best and most respected hand surgeons in the country. Her deterioration is something she's at times very aware of, and it is this that makes the book so powerful.
The narrative often lapses into Jennifer's past memories of both her parents and her children. This adds authenticity to her mental condition but also made me impatient for what seemed to be more important details. As Jennifer is interviewed by police officers and pulled into interaction with her grown son and daughter, we can begin to understand the horror of this disease, especially regarding how hard it is to trust people who may be trying to manipulate the sufferer for their own purposes.
I'd put this near the top of my list for books enjoyed in 2019. It brings to mind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by an Aspberger's spectrum person. Turn of Mind is a hard book to read, but it's even harder to put down once you get into it.
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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What are you reading these days? #28
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes I'm finally going to update the wiki today,...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
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I'm finally going to update the wiki today, hopefully. FYI.
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will beARE listed in the UPDATED wiki!!!as soon as I update it.14 votes -
The Guardian's ranking of the 100 best books of the 21st century
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Stieg Larsson and the unsolved murder case of Olof Palme
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