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168d

Seems as good a day as any to release this new edition for sale.

https://lucire.biz/product/nineteen-eighty-four/

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Cover of a new edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with the text in a stark, heavy all-cap type.

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24d

Sure, but does anyone start reading the classics? Reading on any level should be encouraged 😊

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Post by @MATCHAURA
‘reading classics doesn’t make you any better than wattpad readers’ okay it does a little come on now

Reply by @l_ou_r_de s
As a society, we need to stop pretending that YA is a decent genre when it's the literary equivalent of a marvel movie.

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2d

Luckily Bert is right, you don't HAVE to read Dostoyevsky 😂 But you can if you want 😊

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Picture of a blackboard sign with colourful chalk writing:
Bert's Books
Don't cry for me Dostoyevsky
The truth is I never read you
All through your chapters
Your epic fiction
You kept on writing
I kept my distance

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26d

What does Balrog taste like? Inquiring minds need to know... 😁
Also, are the Elves an allegory for the diffrent ages of Brittish royalty? 🤔

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Elves in Tolkien's legendarium
From THE HOBBIT:
-Wine from warm lands
-Fire-roasted meat
-Likes dancing in the meadows and making flower wreaths
-Spends time singing and feasting
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
-Minwvor, Lembas (mysterious and magical elven food)
-Ages-old wisdom in the eyes
-Totally mysterious
THE SILMARILLION:
-Blood of the slain kin
-Flesh of a Balrog killed with bare hands
-Starts each day with new war
-Covered in scars from fighting and being tortured by Orcs
-Killed at least 10 family members

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25d

https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith/

Until June 16 - Part 1 of "A New Faith" can be downloaded in #PDF or #EPUB format #drmfree

If you like it, please subscribe for the rest of the story.

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35d

Memory & Moggies: McIlvanney, Muriel & Making a Novel
10 June, free online

Prof Zoë Strachan explores the inspiration behind her latest novel, the historical fiction Catch The Moments as They Fly (2023) – including the work of William McIlvanney, & Muriel Spark’s advice that writers should acquire a cat…

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https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/

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READING SCOTLAND
with Zoë Strachan

Memory and Moggies:
McIlvanney, Muriel and Making a Novel

Tuesday 10th June 2025
6:00 – 7:30pm (German time) on MS Teams

www.scotland.uni-mainz.de

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34d

Archie Hind (1928–2008), author of THE DEAR GREEN PLACE (1966), was born #OTD, 3 June

“The only other 20th-century novel I know that places a writer’s struggle in an equally well-imagined city is Nabokov’s THE GIFT”
—Alasdair Gray

https://www.scotswhayhae.com/post/with-hind-s-sight-a-review-of-archie-hind-s-the-dear-green-place

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48d

We NEED more sci-fi like Firefly in the shelves... 😁 If you have recommendations I'm looking 😊

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Caption: I was excited until I realized these are three separate categories.
A Picture of a library sign:
INSPIRATIONAL
SCIENCE FICTION
WESTERNS
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46d

Ham-fisted construction is my favourite 😂

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abridged fairy tales by John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
Goldilocks: Home invader has ceral, breaks stuff, then falls asleep.
Hansel and Gretel: Some kids eat an old lady's house. Also cannibalism.
Beauty and the beast: Stockholm syndrome girl falls for ugly guy. Except he isn't.
Princess and the pea: Mattresses piled on a vegetable determine fitness to govern.
Cinderella: Wardrobe malfunction prompts strange footwear mating ritual.
Three little pigs: Ham-fisted construction keeps wolf at the door.

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34d

If a book hasn't been banned somewhere is it even worth reading? 🤔😁

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Picutre of a bookshelf with a sign saying,
Banned Books: Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
-Isaac Asimov
The shelf features books and has signs explaining what each one was banned for.

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28d

Instead we're still busy exploring the depths of human cruelty... 😒

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Post by ghostdrama

I love old science fiction because it's all like “IT'S THE DISTANT YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND THREE AND MAN IS EXPLORING THE DEEP CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE" like god bless you old sci-fi you had such high hopes for us...

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22d

I'm going to request having all books featruing humans banned, on the grounds that humans are boring 😜😂

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A cartoon of three dogs at a library desk looking expectant as the librarian speaks to them saying, "The library rejected your request to ban all books on cats and squirrels. But, to be fair, it was no dumber than all the other book ban requests we get."

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40d

Mostly, I avoid people, but yes 😂

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Cartoon of a sleepy owl, with a bg book under one wing, a cup of something hot in the other, and wearing a nightcap.
Caption:
That's what I do, I read books, I avoid people, and I known things.

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16d

Traffic makes beasts of us all, but that's too far, way too far 😂

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Post by lindsey

I hope the guy who just cut me off in traffic has his fav book made into a movie & the characters are nothing like he imagined them.

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12d

That's my favorite part of the holidays! 😂

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Post by Fran
Two paintings of women in nice dresses reading books.
Caption: My favourite category of painting is “portrait of an introvert who snuck out of the party she was forced to attend to go read in a quiet room somewhere” also known as me every holiday season.

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11d

Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses

Following the release of his debut novel MUCKLE FLUGGA, Michael Pedersen speaks to SNACK magazine about turning lighthouses into legends, the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson, and why this might be his most welcoming work yet.

https://snackmag.co.uk/michael-pedersen-on-muckle-flugga

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8d

This is the kind of math we like around here 😜

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Picture if a pink sign standing on a table covered in books saying,
BOOK MATH:
Buying the series means you really only bought one book.

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4d

Story structure can be good, it can also make it painfully obvious. Personally I prefer not being able to guess the ending after the first chapter... 🤔😁

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One panel comic by Tom Gauld showing a tall man and a short elf walking over a mountain.
The elf reading a book says, "We've had our "inciting incident" and we're on the "journey" so it seems like we'll be having a "crisis" any minute now..."
The man looking annoyed replies, "This quest was a lot more fun before you got that book on story structure."

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