The Most Popular Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Horror Books of the Year (So Far) ( www.goodreads.com )
Read any of these yet? How were they? Anything catch your eye to add to your TBR list?...
BookWyrm vs. OpenLibrary
I believe there are some BookWyrm users here, that’s why I’m trying to (mis)use this community as a support forum....
The Evolution of Cyberpunk Literature
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/632851...
Fun Fact: The longest piece of literature ever written is a Loud House fanfiction called "Loud House Revamped".
The fanfiction is currently above 16,777,215 words (we don’t know the word count because fanfic.net uses 24-bit integers to count the amount of words and this fic surpassed the computational limit), and is 2000+ chapters. It is written by Jamesdean5842 and is still being written to this day....
Beatrix Potter, the unlikely hero of the anti-hustle culture movement ( www.vox.com )
Let's aggregate the book sublemmys!
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/80166...
The best books I read last year. ( www.cca.org )
I try to make a list of the best things I read at the end of each year. This was what I came up with last january.
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven’t Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an “Antilibrary” ( www.openculture.com )
[…] Eco separated his visitors into two categories: “those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have. How many of these books have you read’ and the others — a very small minority — who get the point is that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendages but a research tool.”
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book ( www.theguardian.com )
Why Libraries are Awesome
So I’m a big advocate of utilizing your local public libraries. The best way to secure more funding for them is to use their services! So I thought real quick that I should write up a quick posts about the services that many libraries offer nowadays that you may not know about. Some of these points may be applicable mostly to...