literature

Do you reread books or are you done with them once you’ve read them?...

Hey guys,...

It doesn’t have to be famous, just a work that you connect with that you feel represents your country in some way.

I believe there are some BookWyrm users here, that’s why I’m trying to (mis)use this community as a support forum....

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/632851...

The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don’t know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....

Hi! Anyone read any good nonfiction lately that they’d recommend? I’m between holds in my library queue rn and need a fix.

I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!...

With the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park (film) having just passed, I’ve had Michael Crichton on my mind. I was introduced to him with Prey in middle school (undoubtedly a little early for the material) and I consider his work to be hugely influential in my love for reading today....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/42666...

I’m still on Goodreads but it’s so slow, the app’s just an even slower webview of the site and the redesign has made me have to click more to do what I want....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/80166...

Myself personally I get most of my reading done on my 45 minute commute to work on the bus/train. I also enjoy reading in the mornings on weekends and occasionally in the evening on weekdays....

I’m using LibraryThing, after fleeing GoodReads a few years back, and I just learned about BookWyrm. I’m interested in what others apps and sites are out there for keeping track of your books and/or to-read list, and/or reviewing and/or discussing them, and what folks think about them.

I try to make a list of the best things I read at the end of each year. This was what I came up with last january.

List as many or as few as you like!

Do you buy rent or borrow? Or do you have a subscription of some kind? Do you read physical books or do you read ebooks?

[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”

So I’m a big advocate of utilizing your local public libraries. The best way to secure more funding for them is to use their services! So I thought real quick that I should write up a quick posts about the services that many libraries offer nowadays that you may not know about. Some of these points may be applicable mostly to...

So… do you have arachnophobia? Wait wait wait… come back and listen, it’s not like you think. Really....