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Amadou Hampāté Bā - Amkoullel In het voetspoor van de vertellers
In dit eerste deel van zijn autobiografie begint Amadou Hampāté Bā met de geschiedenis van zijn voorouders en eindigt als ie als jonge ambtenaar onderin de hiërarchie van het Franse koloniale systeem naar Ouagadougou wordt gestuurd.
Bā is blijkbaar een groot redder van de West-Afrikaanse orale traditie, maar dit was het eerste boek dat ik van hem las. Maar ik kan het me wel voorstellen, zoals hij schrijft: heel soepel precieze observaties aan elkaar rijgen zonder ooit langdradig te worden. Heel prettig lezen.
Het Afrikaanse perspectief op de wereld uit 1900-1920 is mij natuurlijk helemaal vreemd.
Maar veel plaatsnamen ken ik wel uit verhalen van mijn broer die lang in West-Afrika woonde en nog vaker werkte. Aspecten van de cultuur die Bā beschrijft, herken ik van vrienden uit het savannegebied ten zuiden van de Sahara. Dit maakt samen met de schrijfstijl dat het nergens 'vreemd' voelt, juist eerder vertrouwd. Zoals mijn tante me ook eens een middag vertelde over onze en haar geschiedenis.
Genoten van dit deel, gelijk in het volgende beginnen.
#WatWouterLas26 #Autobiografie #LezenIsLeuk #WestAfrica #Boekstadon #Reading #Bookstadon
读过 How to Live 🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑
有博主推荐作者 + 订阅了作者博客看了几篇觉得写得不错就找了本书来读，what a waste of time...一开始看到刻意矛盾的前几章还以为会有些循序渐进的深意，就想说顶着啰嗦的一句话说四五十遍往后翻翻看有无聚合，然并无。翻完 be like seriously？一个随手写篇博客都还不错的人是怎么能忍得了自己把这一堆东西堆成一本书的？真的能有人从这种也不金也无理据更无 storytelling 的干巴零散鸡胸肉汤句合集里被启发到？？？
Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
You will receive it today, because today is L.Frank #Baum’s birthday - the #author of The Wonderful #Wizard of #Oz.
Repost if you think the world needs a little more #magic & great #books
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When you wish you were a scholar (and/or had more than two tired spoons to function): a call for papers on GENRE ROMANCE!
Deadline for abstracts: May 25.
@bookstodon #Reading #Writing #Romancelandia #PopularCultureStudies
More information at Dr Laura Vivanco's wonderful "Teach Me Tonight" blog:
https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2026/05/call-for-papers-pacific-ancient-and.html
The Free Palestine Reading List of Pluto Press:
"As the genocide continues, we continue to publish books exposing Israel for what it is, a state built on extreme settler colonialism. Here is a list of our books published both before and after October 7th. Free Palestine!"
https://www.plutobooks.com/free-palestine-reading-list/
@bookstodon
It's interesting, I've really enjoyed reading on my different ereaders over the years, I still do, but I seem to be drifting back to physical books lately. Ebooks are really convenient, but at least for newer titles they aren't much cheaper than a paperback, if at all.
I also find that I remember physical books better (and audiobooks the least). There's also a certain sense of satisfaction and contentment of looking at my shelves.
#books #Reading #ereaders
The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’
#poetry #reading #Love #poem #poet #McGough #graficpoem #poems #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #book #poemaday #poetrycommunity #pictures #readers #readersofmastodon #booksky #bookish #BookTok #bookclub #readit #Bookwyrm #tennis #booklovers
"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
#reading #books #quotes
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Here are a few thoughts on Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, 1949, a delight from start to finish! #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #Braille @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e5d40053-8004-4db3-996b-e0883036b07c
📚 Rabbit Cake by: Annie Hartnett
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drown...
https://bookblabla.com/book/rabbit-cake
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #historical #humorous #literaryfiction
"When I try to reconstruct the way information about books traveled in the time before the internet, I remember a friend standing in front of my bookcase more than thirty years ago and asking what was really good, what was only all right and what was imperative for her to read" (Anne Enright, 'Attention,' pp. 53f).
I just saw a post from an author who referred to AI not in the usual way, but as author intelligence. I really like that. I'm all for that version of AI, the other, not so much.
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A collection of 44 #books for you to read free on KU. My book is DRM-free.
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"Wide-eyed with interest,
Speedy saw an important little man dressed all in cloth of gold, with
a headdress at least a yard high. He was seated cross-legged on a
giant blue earthworm."
The Yellow Knight of Oz
Today is Dracula Day.
Some monsters never die 🧛♀️
Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.
#DraculaDay #Dracula #BramStoker #Stoker #books #vampire #literature #reading #today #onthisday #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #readers #novel #horror #horrorbooks #bookstagram
📚 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by: Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments ha...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #general
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, #kindle
A collection of 176 #books for you to read free on #KU. My book is DRM-free.
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Want to read screenplays I wrote? I realized I have a whole ton of scripts lying idle in my folders and decided to make books out of them. Here is the first, the stories range from drama, dark comedy, thriller, teen lesbian romance (is that a genre?) It's available for free via @ododopress (Only pdf, the epub comes out a huge file at 40mbs and I can't figure out how to reduce it). Enjoy the read!
https://www.ododopress.com/screenplays/home-is-a-fine-place-to-die/
#books #bookstodon #reading #screenplay #film #writing #writingcommunity
Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) as a child, lost the use of one eye, but later became one of the sharpest observers of human nature.
#Sartre believed that people are not born with a fixed “essence”: we become ourselves through choices.
By the end of his life he was almost blind, but he kept working. Around 50,000 people reportedly came to his funeral procession in Paris.
#reading #books
#bookstodon @bookstodon #writer #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish
📚 Flashlight by: Susan Choi
One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old.
Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/flashlight
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #general
This past weekend, I thought I'd dip a toe into Fantasy, a genre I usually only get close to with SFF titles. Naomi Novik had a little novella out: The Summer War, and it turned out to be a quite satisfying read. (I had read one of her novels before: Uprooted.)
So, I thought "Why not give a full-length fantasy tome a try?" To that end, I picked up the highly rated This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, by Illona Andrews. Are any of you familiar with it? It came out this year. The author seems to have put forth significant effort into world-building and story development. We shall see!
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A collection of 107 #books for you. My book is DRM-free.
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Life is short. Read more.
I try not to bleat too much about my disability, but I was born with a crippling case of congenital laziness.
That's why when I saw the titles of the five new Sara Woods reissues from Dean Street Press show up for pre-order at Kobo, I smiled at these two:
First, my life's motto. Then, my epitaph - THEY GET ME
😱😁
#Reading #Bookstodon @bookstodon
(These are books 11-15 of the Woods series reissued by DSP, the whole series is very good for fans of quality #Mystery writing)
