Book Club: Read ‘My Brilliant Friend’ With the Book Review

In August, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “My Brilliant Friend,” the first book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'

[ The New York Times | 2024-07-31 09:04:25 UTC ]
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A robot read 3.5 million books to find we describe women by appearance, and men by virtue.

Researchers have used machine-learning (a reading robot!) to read 3.5 million books published between 1900 and 2008, and tally all the adjectives used to describe men and women. Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 13:30:07 UTC ]
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Raina Telgemeier offers up an ode to reading, in honor of the National Book Festival

The graphic novelist behind “Smile” and “Sisters” will be a featured author at the festival Saturday. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-27 16:19:28 UTC ]
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Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell review – a brilliant sequel

A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope“I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened to it?” Shaun Bythell – owner of the Book Shop in Wigtown, Galloway – has 100,000 books in stock,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-08-24 10:58:38 UTC ]
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David Lynch’s 5 favorite books include these surprising beach reads!

lol. jk. My dude has never been to the beach. Dave’s actual Top 5 list (according to Far Out magazine) is, of course, a throughly Lynchian quintet of unheimlich surrealism, existentialist historical fiction, disturbing found photography, hundred-year-old art criticism, and auteur biography. Each... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-22 16:15:22 UTC ]
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‘Do black people read?’ What my years in publishing have taught me about diversity in books | Natalie Jerome

Malorie Blackman laments the lack of BAME children’s characters. I know – it’s a real battle to get writers of colour publishedMy daughter, like me, is of mixed heritage. She has wildly curly hair, as have I. When she was born four years ago I was given five copies of the same kids’ picture book... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-08-17 07:00:41 UTC ]
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How Long Beach became a book club superhub, with 130 and counting

The Long Beach Book Club Project unexpectedly discovered groups in every corner of the city. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-15 22:44:34 UTC ]
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Instagram is the book club we need right now

The bookish chat on Instagram is an example of the social media platform at its best. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2019-08-10 19:15:56 UTC ]
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Newsletter: Book Club | George Takei and Michael Connelly join fall lineup

The L.A. Times Book Club hosts George Takei ('They Called Us Enemy') and Michael Connelly ('The Night Fire'). Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-08-10 14:00:32 UTC ]
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Rapper and Poet Noname Launches a Book Club

The book club has the goal of highlighting progressive work from writers of color and writers within the LGBTQ community. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-08-07 10:34:52 UTC ]
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Things ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK Characters Do with Books Besides Reading Them

Books are important to the texture of everyday life in Orange Is the New Black, which is based on a memoir ... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-08-04 10:31:09 UTC ]
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If You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Book

Two hundred years ago, Herman Melville was born and the course of American literary history changed forever. In celebration of the author’s bicentennial, Chronicle Books published Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up Book from the Novel by Herman Melville, which shows ten key moments from the story in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-01 08:48:17 UTC ]
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The 10 books to read in August

Traditionally a “dead month” in publishing, August is delivering plenty of worthwhile titles. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-30 16:35:43 UTC ]
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Why Don’t I Read All My Books?

I own a book called Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures, itself a small object with a haunting image on the cover: a tiny 19th-century portrait of a dead teenage girl. The book came out in 2000, to accompany an exhibition of miniatures at Yale University Art Gallery, and I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-26 08:50:03 UTC ]
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Chicago rapper Noname’s new book club highlights work from writers of color.

If you don’t know Noname, the Chicago rapper and former slam poet born as Fatimah Nyeema Warner, now might be a good time to read up following the official launch of her book club on Wednesday. The unassuming 90s kid launched to fame after some notable collaborations with artists like Mick... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 17:08:40 UTC ]
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The Best Book You've Never Read is 'Pieces for the Left Hand' by J. Robert Lennon

"Retelling these stories—which are not much longer in the summary than in the original—I feel the same charge I experience when some strange little thing happens to me, a coincidence or mix-up, that I’m eager to share with someone." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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DK to publish CBeebies The Baby Club tie-in book

DK will publish a tie-in book to accompany the CBeebies series "The Baby Club" next February. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 20:42:37 UTC ]
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50 of the Best Amazon Prime Books Available Through Prime Reading

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[ Book Riot | 2019-07-18 10:35:34 UTC ]
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Summer reading: dive into the perfect book

As publishers vie to persuade us to pack their titles for the holidays, we chart the evolution of the ’beach read’Summer reads, beach reads, holiday reads … at this time of year, the publishing world works itself into a sweat trying to force its novels into our carry-on luggage, or over the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-07-14 07:00:23 UTC ]
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19 Unique and Totally Awesome Themed Book Club Ideas

At a loss for your next book club? Check out these 19 book club ideas you and your friends will love, from "back to school" to "trophy life" and beyond. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-07-11 10:39:16 UTC ]
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