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herhandsmyhands , 1 day ago to romancelandia

@romancelandia @bookstodon

Every time an author states that borrowing from a library "steals" sales from them, I want to scream.

Publishers have indoctrinated authors against libraries, to authors' own detriment. Libraries buy your book, and if it gets popular, they buy more copies--but more, they introduce readers to your work, and those readers will spread the word, even if they don't buy your books themselves.

#Libraries are unpaid marketing. Be thankful.

#ReadingRant

Blinxeto , 4 hours ago

@strutsulf @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @bookstodon

Does this “author’s” name by any chance start with a T and end with P?

nevele , 2 months ago to bookstodon

Question: Has the use of quotation marks for dialogue in fiction fallen out of favour, or has this always been a thing and haven't I picked up on it before?

I'm now reading the third book in a row (currently The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, before that The Promise by Damon Galgut and No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy) and all three don't have dialogue marks.

Is this a stylistic choice on the author's part? Is this to make the pages seem calmer? Is this to save ink on pages? And is this really a new thing or haven't I just woken up to it before?

#bookstodon #quotationmarks @bookstodon #reading

Blinxeto , 2 months ago

@nevele @bookstodon

There is a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, published in 1975, that has but a few periods and nothing else. The brain quickly adapts to it all.

franciscawrites , 3 months ago to bookstodon

Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

#writingcommunity @bookstodon #moviesandbooks #film #AdaptedFromaBook

Blinxeto , 3 months ago

@arratoon @franciscawrites @bookstodon

And still a great film!

Blinxeto , 3 months ago

@arratoon @franciscawrites @bookstodon

I’m gonna have to go look for the book now. 👍❤️

Schnuckster , 3 months ago to bookstodon

Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Blinxeto , 3 months ago

@Schnuckster @bookstodon

They should put new dust jackets on it and call it The Art Of The Deal.

Blinxeto , 3 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon

Got myself a copy of Tyndale’s 1526 English translation of the New Testament, not for religious reasons, but to see his use and invention of English. It’s quite the read.
Though he was murdered for this, 85%of the King James Bible is Tyndale’s work.

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Blinxeto OP , 3 months ago

@Thebratdragon @bookstodon

Indeed! No Tyndale no Shakespeare.

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Blinxeto OP , 3 months ago

@Thebratdragon @bookstodon

Blinxeto OP , 3 months ago

@Thebratdragon @bookstodon

!!!!!❤️

Blinxeto OP , 3 months ago

@Thebratdragon @bookstodon

That sounds like a dream job.

Blinxeto OP , 3 months ago

@Thebratdragon @bookstodon

The price of beauty🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

mostaurelius , 3 months ago to bookstodon

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

Blinxeto , 3 months ago

@mostaurelius @bookstodon

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Blinxeto , 3 months ago

@mostaurelius @bookstodon

This is #America!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️