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beexcessivelydiverting , to bookstodon
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Summer is coming to a close but we've added new and virtual events!

@bookstodon

https://open.substack.com/pub/excessivelydiverting/p/austen-bronte-issue-10-summer-2024-virtual-event?r=1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true.

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@beexcessivelydiverting @bookstodon Still 8 weeks left in Summer.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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Since we are coming up on June, it seems like a good time to check in with everyone here on @bookstodon regarding favorite reads of 2024 so far. Whatcha got?

My top five reads of 2024 so far:

The Criminal series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker (ten primary works)

James, Percival Everett

The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Poor Deer, Claire Oshetsky

Prequel, Rachel Maddow

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon
This is an interesting thread to read, lots to add to the TBR.

Favourite reads of 2024 for me, so far

Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (which set me off down the rabbit hole of Greek myth retellings)

Alka Joshi's The Henna Artist (and the entire Jaipur Trilogy)

Milan Kundera's The Festival of Insignificance (pure fun)

whitneymcn , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

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@whitneymcn @bookstodon Cadfael, Miss Marple, it's been going on for years in these tiny English towns. Mighty suspicious.

neilm , to bookstodon
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Does anyone know a good place to consistently buy foreign language books in the US? I’m willing to pay up to double sticker price.

Specifically looking for children’s books in German and literature/contemporary novels and books in German, Russian, and French.

Please don’t suggest Amazon, as it’s hardly a reliable source.

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@loathsomecowboy @neilm @bookstodon abe is an amazon subsidiary

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon As we approach the end of 2023, I would love to know about the very best books you read this year. (They don't have to have been published in 2023 for your "best of" list.)

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon A pretty good year, top 11 in no particular order:

Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These
Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North
Percival Everett's Dr. No
Debbie Tung's Quiet Girl in a Noisy World
Bart van Es' The Cut Out Girl
Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities
Martha Gellhorn's Travels with Myself and Another
Madeline Miller's Galatea
Damon Galgut's The Promise
James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Any Percival Everett is going to be a good time! Serious and hilarious at the same time. Just deadly. 😆

claudiac , to random
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📖 Every book lover has a TBR list a mile long. 📚 What's next on your to-be-read list?

Let's talk about the books that you can't wait to read! 📣

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@miki_lou @claudiac @bookstodon Blackwell's (UK) ships to Canada if you're ever stuck

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Devotion-by-Hannah-Kent/9781509863884

lunalein , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon folks, do you listen to audiobooks? If so:

  • Do you have favorite narrators? Or the opposite? Ever started or quit listening to something because of the voice?
  • if you’re talking about a book, do you say you’ve read it?

penpencilbrush ,
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@lunalein @bookstodon Will definitely quit listening to even a favourite book if the narrator doesn't work for me. There's a few mystery/detective series that I love, but cannot listen to because of the narrator.
Will listen to almost anything with a good narrator, those voices! - Anton Lesser, Martin Shaw, Joanna Lumley...
Also prefer memoirs/autobiographies read by the authors themselves - Michelle Obama, Judi Dench,... "Read by the author"

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