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I can’t recall which exact thread it was, but I was reading a book recommendation thread and the book “A Year in the Life Of Ancient Greece” by Philip Matyszak was recommended. I enjoyed learning about ancient Greece in the past and this seemed manageable (under 300 pages), so I read it over the course of this last week....
cross-posted from: sullen.social/post/103...
I guess it makes sense for this sort of thing to happen now. Goodreads doesn’t have a way to prove someone bought a book and with folks there that get review copies, probably won’t get the features. If authors didn’t have a hard enough time publishing, yet another thing to worry about.
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade....
Who is Dr. Seward? Are the spiders his pets?
I’m thinking we should have a central post for all the book sublemmys so we can easily find them. The ones I’m aware of are:...
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1212709...
Unlike many other large subreddits r/books has not made any statements about the API changes. I did try and post something about it but it ended up getting deleted. At 22.1 million users this would be a pretty significant addition to the protest....
What do you recommend?
00:29 All my rage, Sabaa Tahir 3:50 Love from Mecca to Medina, S.K. Ali 5:38 Zéro sucre, Danièle Gerkens 8:48 Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi 10:11 Finding me, Viola Davis 12:25 La passe-miroir, Christelle Dabos
Short but thrilling. We started this year with a bang! Quite literally. A prosecutor wakes up in the middle of the night to the voice of an officer reporting to him the shooting of a villager, marking the beginning of a thrilling and mysterious crime investigation amidst the perturbation of the administration. As the title of...
For me, it’s a non-fiction by Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkey’s former PM) titled “Alternative Paradigms”. Without entering into extensive details, Davutoglu contrasts the Islamic and Western worlds from a philosophical and political aspects in assertion of the theory of the clash of civilizations in the globalization era. While...
(available on libgen ;)...
This book introduces relativity results to the general public. It invites people to think about the mathematical results and discusses the different forms of mathematical transformations. It’s basically an extended version of what we read in science news about relativity, but written by Einstein himself.
