Literature

Do you set goals like reading a certain number of books in a year? Participate in reading challenges?...

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this is one of the main newsletters i use to keep up with new sci-fi and speculative fiction releases. it’s pretty good!

I been in a lots of stress recently with social media and reading No longer human as my most recent book. So i just look for something positive to see a bit. I enjoy the Tatami Galaxy and The cat that save book for reference.

…Because I only just read the first chapter, and I know it’s gonna throw me for a loop, but come on. This whole sequence of events feels like a parody of Westerns– Specifically the “everyone in a bar gets into a fight” trope. I feel like it’s playing out like a Three Stooges sketch....

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Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend

Just finished reading something and want to share some thoughts, but don’t want to start a brand new thread? Feel free to post your mini-reviews here!...

Archived version: archive.ph/WYdpt...

Publishers are complaining that people prefer to read the novels in English instead of their native tongues.

[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...

I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/349464...

In ‘Waiting to be Arrested at Night,’ Tahir Hamut Izgil mourns a world of loved ones and letters lost...

Probably the best source of non-copyrighted literature on the planet, imho, and a necessary bookmark for any lit addict

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/books/t/223208...

Hey folks! I'm hoping that someone can recommend a book or two on herbalism - preferably ones where the author discussed the terpenes and secondary plant metabolites more than the magickal properties of the plants in question....

We wanted to invite other Lemmy readers to join us in a reading challenge, we have tried to structure this so it’s very flexible with regards to genre, and we don’t require you to join or post on !books. We had just put in the work to make it and thought we could share the fun. (Admins/Mods please feel free to delete if...