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8 votes
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How do you turn kids into bookworms? All ten children's laureates share their tips
7 votes -
What are you reading these days? #19
Edit: #19, not 18. Sorry I messed up the title again, if someone with the chance could fix it, I'd be grateful. What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language!...
Edit: #19, not 18. Sorry I messed up the title again, if someone with the chance could fix it, I'd be grateful.
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17 · Week #18
11 votes -
The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today
8 votes -
What are you reading these days? #18
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16 · Week #17
15 votes -
Murder and the missing briefcase: The real story behind Harper Lee’s lost true crime book
5 votes -
Review: "Bedroom Music" by Steph Castor
5 votes -
Four books by Asian American authors republished as Penguin Classics
9 votes -
Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the mysterious author
9 votes -
Ten famous characters you technically own
3 votes -
The state of play of Nigerian SFF today
5 votes -
When Gabriel García Márquez wanted to be a foreign correspondent in Madrid
4 votes -
Eudora Welty on Charlotte's Web, Dorothy Parker on Winnie the Pooh, and more classic reviews of beloved children's books.
5 votes -
Australian poet Les Murray dies at 80
Death notice at ABC news: Australian poet Les Murray dies at 80 Article about Les Murray in 2002: In the Land of Les Murray
3 votes -
Climate change fiction is rethinking the ecoterrorist
9 votes -
Variations on a Name: The -Punks of our Times
4 votes -
A Bouquet Of Poets For National Poetry Month
4 votes -
The myriad drumbeats of Afrofuturism: Afro-Brazilian speculative fiction
9 votes -
Gene Wolfe turned science fiction into high art
7 votes -
The most prescient science fiction author you aren’t reading: Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman — who wrote as a man — as Margaret Atwood.
8 votes -
Can Poetry Move Readers to Take Climate Action?
5 votes -
Christopher Columbus' son had an enormous library. Its catalog was just found
6 votes -
Does an author's identity, personal experiences, or beliefs impact your appreciation for their work?
This recent topic has me thinking. On one hand, you have the whole "Death of the Author" idea that divorces the writer from their work. This makes a lot of sense, and allows for creative works of...
This recent topic has me thinking.
On one hand, you have the whole "Death of the Author" idea that divorces the writer from their work. This makes a lot of sense, and allows for creative works of fiction to exist entirely as fictions.
On the other hand, you have the #OwnVoices movement which specifically prioritizes the identity of the author as a method of affirming their work. This makes a lot of sense too, befitting the longstanding principle of "nothing about us without us." Who better to write a fictionalized experience than someone who has gone through a real-life parallel?
Then you have authors whose personal beliefs and experiences may or may not texture their work for readers. Orson Scott Card is commonly brought up in discussions like these on account of his views and public comments on homosexuality. William S. Burroughs famously shot his own wife. I can certainly see how those would be hard things to look past.
With all this in mind, does the author matter to you when you read (particularly works of fiction)? Does knowing about them enhance/detract from your reading experience?
15 votes -
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier
12 votes -
Frieze, a poem by Erin Elizabeth Smith
4 votes -
Tiamat’s Wrath raises the stakes as The Expanse nears the end
6 votes -
Why won't studios read my pitch?!
5 votes -
How do you find new books to read?
We all have plenty of books on our bedside table, waiting their turn. What makes you choose the ones you do?
15 votes -
Hunchback of Notre-Dame goes to top of bestseller list after fire
12 votes -
What are you reading these days? #17
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16
26 votes -
Eight books that can help make you a better leader
4 votes -
What are some good entry points for getting into poetry?
I like the idea of poetry, but I almost never actually read it. My knowledge of the form is pretty much limited to a handful of popular classics that I had to read back in high school; one or two...
I like the idea of poetry, but I almost never actually read it. My knowledge of the form is pretty much limited to a handful of popular classics that I had to read back in high school; one or two poems each from Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and Shakespeare.
Where do I start if I want to dip my toes into poetic waters? What are some good poems/compilations for poetry novices? I'm particularly interested in modern, contemporary voices, but I'm open to anything.
19 votes -
The Real Ramona: How Beverly Cleary transformed her harsh, difficult childhood into heartwarming fiction
4 votes -
'We need to keep our language alive': Inside a Uyghur bookshop in Istanbul
10 votes -
‘I’m not racist, but …’
10 votes -
Holdfast, a poem by Robin Beth Schaer
5 votes -
Fifty shades of white: The long fight against racism in romance novels
5 votes -
‘Crisis,’ a Poem by W. H. Auden
5 votes -
Free short story vending machines delight commuters
12 votes -
French Novel, a poem by Richie Hofmann
4 votes -
James Patterson donates $1.25 million to classroom libraries
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Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality
13 votes -
Oh no! The depressing truth about the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory workers
9 votes -
What are you reading these days? #16
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15
21 votes -
Romance and erotica is the top revenue-generating literary category in the US, accounting for more than half of all mass-market paperbacks sold
8 votes -
Hugo finalists for 2019 Hugo Awards and 1944 retro Hugos
4 votes -
What is your favourite audiobook?
Some books are adapted to the medium of audiobooks better than others. A mediocre narrator can taint what is otherwise a great story. Likewise, an outstanding narrator can uplift what is an...
Some books are adapted to the medium of audiobooks better than others. A mediocre narrator can taint what is otherwise a great story. Likewise, an outstanding narrator can uplift what is an average story.
For me, His Dark Materials is the best audiobook I've listened to. It's read by the author, and has a full cast of (fantastic) voice actors for each character, it brings the story to life so wonderfully. To the point that even if I read the book now, I hear a good amount of the voice cast speaking for each character.
If you haven't heard it, I can recommend it! Honourable mention goes to Stephen Fry reading the Harry Potter series.What is your favourite audiobook?
14 votes -
Amazon and Viola Davis to adapt Octavia Butler's novel, Wild Seed
6 votes -
What are you reading these days? #15
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14
16 votes -
The greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something...
I am currently enjoying a very thought-provoking semester of American Literature. Prior to this class, I wouldn't have considered fiction as useful in my everyday life, as opposed to something like a self-help book. What I've found is exactly the opposite, and I have found novels such as Great Expectations to be even more influential than anything I've ever read.
So I ask you all, what is the greatest lesson you've learned from classical fiction?
12 votes