When Your ‘Doppelganger’ Becomes a Conspiracy Theorist ( www.nytimes.com )
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
America’s Great Poet of Darkness ( hedgehogreview.com )
Transfer Orbit | My most anticipated books of 2024 ( transfer-orbit.ghost.io )
TOORMINA VIDEO - An autobiographical comic by Pat Grant ( www.patgrantart.com )
2023 Hugo Awards Finalists ( www.thehugoawards.org )
Lemmy Exclusive Book Giveaway: Ghost Trigger ( beehaw.org )
Update:...
Elliot Page Does Not Owe You a Legible Timeline: On the Beauty of Nonlinear Queer & Trans Storytelling ( bookriot.com )
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.”
Before she was killed by a Russian missile strike, novelist Victoria Amelina wrote about Ukraine and the meaning of home ( web.archive.org )
I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing ( arstechnica.com )
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023 ( lithub.com )
Zola understood our lust for shopping ( unherd.com )
NPR's Books We Love for 2023 ( www.npr.org )
e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
Writer George Penney (who also writes wonderful posts about house-sitting adventures with feline overlords in various countries and is an entertaining follow) just posted this on Mastodon:...
The Booker Prize 2023 longlist ( thebookerprizes.com )
The longlist has been announced! It features work from four continents, four Irish writers, four debut novelists – and ten authors who are recognised by the Booker Prize for the first time...
“When Stars Collide” by Ottessa Moshfegh ( www.newyorker.com )
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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?...
Beatrix Potter, the unlikely hero of the anti-hustle culture movement ( www.vox.com )
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book ( www.theguardian.com )
BookWyrm - a fediverse Goodreads clone, if you're looking to break away from Amazon! ( joinbookwyrm.com )
Just thought I’d throw it out there. You can import your Goodreads (or Storygraph or other) history as well....
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» | Таємна кімната ( tayemnakimnata.com )
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» від Емманюеля Лепажа. Історія про Чорнобильську атомну катастрофу очима європейців. "Таємна кімната" - про комікси та мальописи українською.
Oddly current events related: Dead Wake (Erik Larson) - On the sinking of the Lusitania and the US’ entrance into WWI ( eriklarsonbooks.com )
I had picked this up at a used book store a long ways back after reading nothing but rock bios for a while - thought a little historical non-fiction could beef my brain up....
