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kimlockhartga , 7 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon Just out of curiosity, how close are you to your reading goal for the year? I need to read 12 more books to meet the goal I set for myself. 📚📚📚📚

Not everyone works the same way, of course. We've discussed before that reading goals are counterproductive for many. Having a goal really helps me, but it doesn't work for everyone. Just like reading for pleasure and reading to write a review are very different processes.

abookguy , 7 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

I focused on 26 and now I am at 30 plus and I have two audiobooks and one hardcover going on right now!

kenthompson , 7 months ago to bookstodon

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. You are a teenage German boy who signs up to fight in WWI with your classmates, and you never find anything worth fighting for, just mud and death in the trenches, as any sense of yourself or any recognizable future fades. 4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.

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abookguy , 7 months ago

@kenthompson @bookstodon I agree Ken. Have you seen the latest movie version of it? Powerful..

seanalan , 7 months ago to random

I’m embarrassed to admit it but …

My whole life I’ve been into geography and yet — after 50+ trips around the Sun — it was like two weeks ago that I learned that Appalachia is pronounced Appa-LATCH-ia … not Appa-LAY-chia 🤦🏾‍♂️

Also, Y’ALL (Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners) apparently got issues with JD Vance’s best-selling #book “Hillbilly Elegy”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/books/review-appalachian-reckoning-region-responds-hillbilly-elegy.html

abookguy , 7 months ago

@seanalan I read Hillbilly Elegy several years ago. I am interested in your thoughts on the response. On my TBR list! Thanks for posting about it! @bookstodon #books

appassionato , 7 months ago to bookstodon

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.

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abookguy , 7 months ago

@appassionato @bookstodon Excellent book!

appassionato , 7 months ago to bookstodon

The Cultural Sociology of Reading: The Meanings of Reading and Books Across the World

This book showcases recent work about reading and books in sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different standpoints and within the broad perspectives within the cultural sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of reading practices, genres, types of texts, and reading spaces.

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abookguy , 7 months ago

@appassionato @bookstodon Looks very interesting... On my TBR list

appassionato , 7 months ago to bookstodon

In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings , Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade.

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abookguy , 7 months ago

@appassionato @bookstodon

Putting on my TBR List
Thank you!

appassionato , 8 months ago to bookstodon

In Reflections of Alan Turing, Dermot strips off the layers to uncover the real story. It's time to discover a fresh legacy of Alan Turing for the twenty-first century.

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abookguy , 8 months ago

@appassionato @bookstodon

I just finished Walter Issacson's The Innovators andwas introduced to him. Going on my TBR pile

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