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....
I recently discovered Bookwyrm and am really liking it. It’s not quite as full-featured as The Storygraph or Goodreads but it covers all of the most important functionalities and it’s federated which I appreciate. Something that it is missing Vs either The Storygraph or Goodreads at the moment is volume of reviews (ie....
Just finished The Long Earth series by Sir Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter. I’m a huge Pratchett fan and these were my first Baxter novels. It pains me to say it, but it was kind of awful…...
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...
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.