Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament - John Crowley - 1981 ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/441958...
Viberary - Vibe based book search engine ( viberary.pizza )
It gives you book recommendations based on ✨vibes. ✨ You enter a search query like “funny scifi” and it returns a list of (hopefully!) good recommendations.
Do they also sometimes split a book into two in your country?
I hate it, they translate a book and decide that they want to sell it twice so they split it into two. They did it with every book of A Song of Ice and Fire and yesterday I’ve discovered they also did it with To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. I hate paying twice for one book.
Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson ( www.goodreads.com )
Though some of you might already be familiar with the Cosmere, to those who aren't I think this would be a fantastic introduction, if you like fantasy....
Request for Nonfiction must reads
What non-fiction book could you just not put down? Was it a biography? Some obscure textbook? A collection of papers or speeches? Share your suggestions below!
Question For Digital Readers
For the digital readers, on which platform do you read and why?...
Need book recommendations
I would like to learn the history of:...
Rebecca F Kuang: Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down ( www.theguardian.com )
Emotions run high on Goodreads. In fact, I tell every author navigating their first book launch to stay off it. They’re not going to listen to me, because who doesn’t want to know whether their manuscript – this precious thing they’ve toiled on in solitude for years – has found its readers? And because I’ve been...
What is your favorite novel of the year thus far?
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What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?
I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I’m reading Pandora’s star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother...
"The Socialization of Society" and "What Is Bolshevism?" (1918) by Rosa Luxemburg | Socialism For All ( www.youtube.com )
Check out c/breadtube for more left video content and discussion....
Please provide me the best materials to understand Macbeth. ( sh.itjust.works )
Was recently watching this www.arte.tv/en/videos/…/giuseppe-verdi-macbeth/...
‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers ( www.theguardian.com )
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - 1953 ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/478961...
wheel of time and corporal punishment
I’m nearing the end of the wheel of time, first book that Sanderson worked on....
Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More ( www.openculture.com )
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins - 1976 ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/448597...
[No spoilers] I am reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor dostoevsky
I am reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (P&V translation). About 20% through. It’s starting to get interesting as the characters start to take shape. Till now I have read and enjoyed the P&V translations of both Crime and Punishment and Demons. This is a huge book and I am looking forward to enjoying this for...
Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links ( www.theguardian.com )
Book where the MC is hated for a reason? (With no romance as the focus)
In universe I mean, not by the reader. I remember the few times I saw stories like that were fairly… cringe; the MC was usually a loner and the people didn’t have a good reason to hate him, if any at all!...
Anyone else as obsessed with the Chronicles of Prydain as I am?
I remember reading the series in sixth grade for an assignment and falling in love with them and try to read them at least once a year....
Book about Great Depression
I would like to know what caused the Great Depression and how the world recovered from it. Do you know any good books on this subject?
‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory ( www.theguardian.com )
Archived version: archive.ph/eK1Rx...
Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?
I’m looking for a solution to easily keep bookmarks digitally of physical books I read. Previously I would type up the just I was wanting to save into a Google Keep note, but that is fairly disruptive to my reading time and really slows things down....