Do you guys have any book reading goals for next year?
Personally, I am trying to read 15 books this year and mix in more non-fiction books.
Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers (www.theguardian.com)
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Novelist Tim Dorsey, who mixed comedy and murder in his Serge A. Storms stories, dies at 62 (apnews.com)
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Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel 'Prophet Song' (www.euronews.com)
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Really stretching the use of "Best" (startrek.website)
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So what the funk was the Annihilation trilogy by Vandermeer about?
I read the trilogy on a whim last week, and just to be sure I followed the basic plot lines since there’s so much stream of consciousness and abstract contradictory personal thoughts going on, I looked at plot summaries after I read each book....
Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in twentieth-century America - Norwood, Stephen H. 1951 (archive.org)
Using a social-historical approach, the author focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts and considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter them. The book also traces the economic restructuring which transformed corporate anti-unionism
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Fathers and Sons by Turgenev: Portrait of a self-proclaimed Nihilist
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (Richard Freeborn translation) is an interesting character study of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist in the backdrop of the ideological differences between the “fathers” and “sons”. The “fathers” and “sons” in the title refer to the two different generations of the liberals and the...
what do you think of "Foundations of Geopolitics" By Aleksandr Dugin (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Tears of blood: A book about grief, horror, war, and immigration (play.google.com)
I hope this is allowed here, if not, feel free to remove my post, mods...
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Plato’s Republic: Critical Thinking, Moral Education, and Citizenship (a.co)
Plato's Republic: Navigating Critical Thinking, Moral Education, and Citizenship in the 21st Century" is not just a book; it's a beacon of hope in a society that often loses sight of reason, knowledge, and justice.
MARLOWE (www.amazon.com)
A book across the year
I have been reading Finnegans Wake over the course of this year, a few pages a day, along with a group over on reddit. It is one of the very few things that still keeps me visiting reddit at all....
What is Zionism? (www.peoplesworld.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1009590...
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Do you buy books you have already read?
Do you buy physical books you have already read?...
8 AI Book Cover Generator Websites (Free and Easy to Use) (blog.bookwritingbureau.com)
Learn 8 user-friendly AI book cover generator websites that are free and perfect for creating captivating book covers. Release your creativity now!
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Hear Classic Readings of Poe’s “The Raven” by Vincent Price, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walken, Neil Gaiman & More (www.openculture.com)
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November Nonfiction Book Haul + Book Recommendation (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/972256...
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The Tea Table By Sara Lippincott (www.edge.org)
SARA LIPPINCOTT (1938-2023) was an editor specializing in nonfiction who edited some eighty books about science for the general public including bestsellers such as Bill Bradley’s Time Present, Time Past, Timothy Ferris’s The Whole Shebang, Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics, and John McPhee’s Pulitzer prize-winning...
The Emptiness Of Literature Written For The Market (www.noemamag.com)
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Second Chapter of System Collapse by Martha Wells (www.tor.com)
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A good fantasy book? you know, wizards, dragons, princesses, that kind of stuff
Well I’m craving something in this genre but I’m a bit overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. So many titles and yet I’m not sure what to read. Maybe you can help?...
Because it's fiction, Susan (lemmy.ml)
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Prison Banned Books Week: October 25-31 2023 (pen.org)
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