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This year's Booker Prize winner will be announced next week and this piece gives a peek into how the judges cope with reading their way through the one-hundred and sixty-three nominated books in seven months.
#BookerPrize #reading #books @bookstodon

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/booker-prize-judges-reading-tips-b3074353.html

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📚 Free Food for Millionaires by: Min Jin Lee

Lee’s bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of ambition, dreams, and uncertainties of life—set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for free lunches the poor are too proud to accept—is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portr...

https://bookblabla.com/book/free-food-for-millionaires

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #immigrationfiction #literaryfiction #familylife #parenthoodchildren

Lee’s bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of ambition, dreams, and uncertainties of life—set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for free lunches the poor are too proud to accept—is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portrait of inter-generational strife and immigrant struggle, revealing the fascinating lives of a vital community clinging to its old ways in a moneyed city of haves and have-nots.

In the stunning debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle.

National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the unforgettable Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who seeks both glamour and insight in Manhattan—a glittering borough she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a white boyfriend she cannot introduce to her parents, Casey is determined to claim a space for herself—but how and at what cost?

Mesmerizing. —USA Today

Includes a Reading Group Guide.

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"What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future" by Tareq Baconi. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2026.

Book description: A philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestine—and all people—will look like in the twenty-first century. Palestine is a litmus test for our global future. The ongoing genocide is showcasing what it means for Palestinians to be taken to the brink of extermination. The outcome will have repercussions that will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the world, and will determine whether the struggle for decolonization will succeed or fail.

This book was not an easy read for me. I tempered that with the idea that it is written from the perspective of a peopled who have experienced a trampling of their human rights for generations, by a people who were once themselves oppressed. This is ongoing, and the west has generally participated in this effort, with little effort to facilitate a forceful stop to the genocide. Some in the west have spoken up, but talk is not action.

#nonfiction #MiddleEast #Palestine #books #reading @bookstodon

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https://bookwyrm.social/user/pivic/quotation/12972146

Finally: a book for fountain-pen people like myself.

#SimonGarfield #ThePen #book #reading #FountainPens #FountainPen #Montblanc #Lamy #Bic #nerds @bookstodon @books

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"For me, pen academia effortlessly turns to pen consumerism. Beyond its history, and beyond its utility, a well-balanced pen is just a beautiful thing to hold in the hand. To buy one – even something as factory-turned as the Lamy Safari – is to experience the most affordable fulfilment. By the end of my visit to the spectacular Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, I was almost convinced that a fountain pen was an essential tool for life. The truth is otherwise. No one – not even a president signing themselves into office or Charles III signing himself into the Kingdom – needs a Montblanc fountain pen, much less one where the price starts at £555 and goes crazy from there. A Bic Cristal will do: 26p each if you buy a box of fifty. Also, a Bic is a good chew, and its cap a good ear-scratch, and it was once fantastic at winding cassettes. How we got to the 26p pen – that too is the focus of this book." (Simon Garfield, The Pen)

"This industry was far from dead, a point emphasised by the spread of Moleskine boutiques and other busy specialist stationery shops in Shoreditch, Le Marais and Nolita. And then there are the most vivid enthusiasms online. Reddit pages and [fountainpennetwork.com](http://fountainpennetwork.com) hum with threads beginning: ‘Fountain pens make me fall in love with writing even more’ and ‘Bought my first *real* pen at the Philly pen show today!’ Stallholders at the fairs told me that the revival had been visible for a decade or so, and showed no signs of slowing; it was not yet at the level of the vinyl record revival, but getting there." (Simon Garfield, The Pen)

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If there’s any indication that audiobooks count as reading, take a hard look at the current reading is dying or is a lost art discourse, and yet, audiobook listeners continue to have better reading comprehension than those that simply do not read at all. I came across a YouTube video a few years ago where this non-disabled guy is going through self help book after book struggling to read and all the discourse surrounding him was rooted in, of course, ableism, but actively angry at him for trying to improve himself. I am not a fan of any self help books at all but Maybe the cure to save this reading decline is not to shame others when they want to read anything or listen to something. #Reading #Education

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Spoiler ahead ⚠️

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📚 The Martian Chronicles by: Ray Bradbury

Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles is a place...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-martian-chronicles

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #psychological

Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grand master once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his vision and heart—starkly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, weakness, folly, and poignant humanity in a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

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Looking for some comfy reading to uplift & entertain you in these uncertain times? Try my whimsical fantasy story collection. Elves, gargoyles, mischievous young magicians, heroic aunties, very good doggos, & much more.

sale price $4.99 drm-free epubs: https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/relics-from-a-traveling-show-ebook1

Kobo, Nook & more $7.99:
https://books2read.com/relicsfromatravelingshow

$9.99 at the Bezos bazaar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWQRWGY

#fantasy #wizards #monsters #witches #sorcery #elves #FoundFamily #reading #books #bookstodon #bookpromo #indieauthor

Book cover for Relics From a Traveling Show by K. M. Herkes, showing a figure in a green and blue traveling cloak seated at a desk looking out a window at a carnival tent at sunset. A bonsai tree in a blue bowl sits on the window sill, and a glowing eldritch lamp sits on the desk beside a binder labeled, DPS Orientation Guide.
The figure has short brown hair, and they are wearing a green and blue traveler's cloak. At their left stands a tall bookshelf filled with artifacts, books, and knickknacks. A happy dog sits at figure's side. Their hand rests on the dog's head.

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📚️ #eBook / #eBooks accounts to follow:

PUBLIC DOMAIN
@gutenberg_org (main) & @gutenberg_new (new uploads) - Massive selection of public domain eBooks
@standardebooks - High quality well-formatted public domain eBooks
@DProofreaders - Volunteers proofreading eBook versions of public domain books

BOOKSHOPS
@WeightlessBooks - Indie bookshop selling DRM-free eBooks
@scarletferret - Human-curated DRM-free ebooks by indie authors

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#Books #Reading

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Looking for book recommendations on the American identification with/worship of Ancient Greece. #bookstodon #reading

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"What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces" (Olga Tokarczuk, ‘Flights’).

#SundaySentence @bookstodon #bookstodon #narrative #reading #identity

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#SALE #Reading @bookstodon

Mimi Matthews' wonderful Christmas-set novella, "A Holiday by Gaslight" is on sale for 99 cents (digital edition; price may vary slightly by region) until 11/23.

My review:
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/a-holiday-by-gaslight-by-mimi-mathews/

Book blurb, reading:
"A Courtship of Convenience

Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run-of-the-mill London merchant. He's grim and silent. A man of little emotion--or perhaps no emotion at all. After two months of courtship, she's ready to put an end to things.

A Last Chance for Love

But severing ties with her taciturn suitor isn't as straightforward as Sophie envisioned. Her parents are outraged. And then there's Charles Darwin, Prince Albert, and that dratted gaslight. What's a girl to do except invite Mr. Sharpe to Appersett House for Christmas and give him one last chance to win her? Only this time there'll be no false formality. This time they'll get to know each other for who they really are."

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https://pivic.blog/blog/quotes-from-simon-garfields-the-pen/

I've started reading Simon Garfield's new book 'The Pen: A Human History'. It's remarkably good, especially for a fountain-pen idiot like myself.

My blog post contains a few quotes from the first 17% of the book.

#book #reading #FountainPen #FountainPens #pen #SimonGarfield @bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

The book cover: créme-white background, the main title written in spencerean calligraphy style; a fountain pen is visible in the top-right corner of the book, the nib of which sports an engraved 'P'.

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📚 Redshirts by: John Scalzi

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.

Life couldn't be better...until A...

https://bookblabla.com/book/redshirts

#books #reading #libraries #spacewarfare #fiction #humanalienencounters #hardcoverfiction20120624

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.

Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2) the ship's senior officers always survive these confrontations, and 3) sadly, at least one low-ranking crew member is invariably killed. Unsurprisingly, the savvier crew members below decks avoid Away Missions at all costs.

Then Andrew stumbles on information that transforms his and his colleagues' understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is...and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
Redshirts by John Scalzi is the winner of the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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First you have to force feed them some propaganda like "the strong should prey on the weak."
And then you can have instant replay of #LordOfTheFlies 🤔😒

#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Four panel comic of a classroom with ENGLISH LIT written on a blackboard.

1st: "Morning, class! Today we're going to start our Lord of the Flies unit!"
2nd: Teacher walks out.
3d: *Lock* sound from the door.
4th: Incorrect expectation of mayhem.

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I know #Romantasy is a big thing right now, but how are things going with #RoSciFi 🤔😁

In an alternate universe they're making this kind of #Spicy 😂

#GeekMemes #Geek #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny
#SciFi #Alternate #Universe
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Bookstodon #BookMemes #Books

Cover with an android doing the Marily Monroe over a vent pose in a yellow dress.
Title: Do Androids Drema of Electric Dicks?
A new novel by Philip K. Sheep

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Hey, UK friends, will you look at this from Yale University Press London:

"Get 50% OFF thousands of Yale history books with free UK postage in November."

Link to the sale:
https://yalebooks.co.uk/history-offer/

#HistoryBooks #Reading #FreeShippingUK #SALE @bookstodon

Graphic for the sale shows rows of history book covers with a banner reading "50% off History Books" overlaid on them.
Titles I can make out:
_Harold Warrior King_
_Offa, King of the Mercians_
_How England Began_
_Empress Matilda, Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English_
_A Little History of the World_
_The Fifth Crusade_
_A Woman Named Edith_
_The Black Cross_
_Spice: the 16th Century contest that shaped the world_
_Nuremberg: the translators talk_

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In this fast paced cowardly new world heading for 1984...

You take what is offered or you do without 🤔😜

#GeekMemes #Geek #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #SciFi #TheMatrix #Movies
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Morpheus offering Neo Pills meme.
In one hand is Orwell's 1984 in the other Huxley's Brave New World.
Morpheus: Did you just take both pills?

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Just in case someone was wondering what #TechBro controlled #AI #Media is actually meant to achieve 🤔😒

@reading @bookstodon @books @philosophy @stoicism @psychology

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Post by Owl at the Library

The part of George Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and
publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from
ever having to think.

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Being the main character of anything is rarely a good thing but this is especially bad 😂

#Russian #Classic
#ReadingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny #Geek
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

Joey from Friends meme.
Relaxed Joey: You're the main character
Stressed Joey: ... of a Russian Classic.

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I'm not saying all cats are arseholes, but they are a little bit, and that's why we love 'em 😂

#Cat #Cats #Caturday
#BookMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Funny
#ReadingMemes #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Litterature #Novel #Bookshelf
#Books #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

Photo of a statue with a book and there's a cat sitting on the book.
Caption: Even if you're a statue, there will still be a cat, blocking you from reading...

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📚 The Sleeping Sisters by: Jennifer Givhan

Fortuna Miércoles has finally moved her family to a better neighborhood across the Rio Grande, desperate to outrun the curse that’s stalked her bloodline since her greatest grandmother crossed the desert with a cactus thorn splitting her throat. But burying a family’s v...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-sleeping-sisters

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #hispaniclatino #horrorfiction #indigenous #thrillers

Fortuna Miércoles has finally moved her family to a better neighborhood across the Rio Grande, desperate to outrun the curse that’s stalked her bloodline since her greatest grandmother crossed the desert with a cactus thorn splitting her throat. But burying a family’s violent legacy—or her own haunting secret—isn’t so easy. Twenty years ago, girls and women vanished into the Albuquerque night, their bones later unearthed on the mesa. The so-called Reaper was never caught. Now, beneath the dormant volcanoes called the Sleeping Sisters, the killings have begun again, and they’ve called forth something in Fortuna that she has long fought to keep buried...

“A marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood. . . . I have no idea how to describe what I just read, but it was really, really cool.” —T. Kingfisher, author of What Moves the Dead

A mother’s love is the oldest curse

Detective Jeanette Palacio has spent decades promising justice to the ghosts of her murdered cousins—alongside the memory of the other women she couldn’t avenge. When a new body turns up in Fortuna’s backyard, both women are pulled into a dangerous, ancient plot. Are the Sleeping Sisters awakening—or has someone in Fortuna’s family set a trap?

Inspired by true events, The Sleeping Sisters begins as a taut mystery shot through with myth and a Chicana-Indigenous re-imagining of the legend of the headless woman—but by its cataclysmic end has spiraled into a

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When I first saw this Dean Street Press release, I thought it was ABOUT a will, making it a fit for this week's #MurderEveryMonday

I was wrong but since the title is BY a Will, I'l take that as the figleaf of justification I need for my pun/wordplau addicted brain to clain the book does fit 😁 #Reading #Bookstodon #Mystery
@bookstodon

https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

Cover of the Dean Street Press edition of "Let's Choose Executors" by Sara Woods

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📚 Monster of a Land by: Lauren Hough

Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the trip. So, upon finally finding herself in a situation where such a trip might be possible—being a writer may not always pay better than being a bartender or a cab...

https://bookblabla.com/book/monster-of-a-land

#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #specialinterest #lgbtq

Lauren Hough has always been haunted by the road trips she never got to take: no money, no vacation days, no car capable of making the trip. So, upon finally finding herself in a situation where such a trip might be possible—being a writer may not always pay better than being a bartender or a cable guy, but at least the schedule’s flexible—she leaps at the chance, refurbishing a ramshackle 2001 Dodge van and setting off from Austin, Texas with her Husky mix Woody by her side.

Her influences feel obvious—but a lot has changed about the United States since the 1962 trip John Steinbeck chronicles in Travels with Charley. And Lauren Hough isn’t John Steinbeck—unless the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath had a secret past as a six-foot-tall lesbian and Air Force vet. But even better as a social lubricant than beer, a dog is the ultimate conversation starter. With Woody as wingman, Lauren chats—at gas stations and restaurants and auto shops and bars—with an incredible cross-section of Americans from all walks of life and every possible political perspective. And as she circumnavigates the country, she documents, with all-too-rare empathy, what it means to be poor, to be marginalized, and to be seen as Other in America.

Part travelogue, part social commentary, and 100% Lauren Hough, Monster of a Land unites her poignant vulnerability, her hilarious narrative voice, and her razor-sharp insights into a journey that will show us how far we’ve com

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The BBC is reporting that bestselling author and former politician, Jeffrey Archer, has died, at age 86.

#books #reading @bookstodon

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