After 2 weeks of testing, #reading, and making my own #handcrafted#3dprinted case. Today I'm reviewing the #kobo Clara BW and Clara Color #ereaders, and seeing if it's better than my existing Nia, and #kindle.
OMG @bookstodon I just got the best first review a writer could wish for. Forgive me for this little bit of self-promotion.
"The characters are everything, Lailu (cover) is perfect, Daisy is so relatable and there’s a host of supporting characters to love including shifters, vampires and a whole host of magical creatures.
The writing is great, the book flows effortlessly and kept me reading even when I really needed to go to bed."
@patchworkbunny@bookstodon Congrats! I've checked out the book and it's definitely in my wheelhouse for what I enjoy reading, so I've added it to my To Read list.
The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum were printed by the George M. Hill Company.
During the subsequent decades after the novel's publication in 1900, it received little critical analysis from scholars of children's literature. This lack of interest stemmed from the scholars' misgivings about fantasy, as well as to their belief that lengthy series had little literary merit.
Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
The book is framed between poems 1 and 36, which constitute respectively the prologue and epilogue. It also manifests a circular structure as it begins with a composition in which a young girl who is invited to sing takes the voice and ends with the same voice of the girl who apologizes for her lack of ability to sing the beauties of Galicia.
Recently finished and recommend Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor aka @nnedi. I haven't read everything she's written, but everything I have read I've liked a lot, so I'll certainly read the second book in this series. She writes everything from "good for adults too YA" like the Binti stories to "very much NOT for youth" like the superb but intense Who Fears Death. Shadow Speaker lies somewhere in between, I'd say, and I enjoyed it a lot.
🧵 #sff#Books#bookstodon
@nnedi Okorafor is a gifted character writer especially. Her protagonists and other key figures are always striking and memorable. She describes her approach or vision as Africanfuturism and it's powerful, one that exists on its own terms, not defined in relation to historically mainstream western SFF. This context difference is for me a very welcome and enriching, and certainly sometimes humbling, one. There's an enormous sense of dignity and strength to her characters 🧵 #sff#Books#bookstodon
Shadow Speaker itself is an interesting book because it's one of those that refuses to choose between science fiction and magic. You can read a synopsis at the link, so I won't recap it, and I wouldn't dare give away more of the plot, because a lot happens. Suffice it to say that if the description interests you, go ahead and grab it, you'll probably like it. And if that story idea doesn't grab you, check out her other books instead.
"Every so often, a cause ignites a sustained fury on college campuses across the nation. In 2020, it was Black Lives Matter. In 2011, it was Occupy Wall Street. In the 1980s, it was apartheid in South Africa.
Today, it’s the Israeli military campaign in Gaza."
Here are five books that shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s – compiled by veteran journalist Steve Friess.
We send books only to people incarcerated in the United States. Fortunately, there are similar groups in other countries. This article describes a group collecting books for prisoners in Manitoba, Canada. (Unlike us, the group provides books only to prison libraries. We mostly serve individuals behind bars, although we also send books to prison libraries from time to time.)
#books#booksofmastodon#misogyny#anger#abuse#harassment
In "Stop Telling Women To Smile" by Tatyana Fazializadeh uses her arresting street art portraits to explore how women experience hostility in communities that are supposed to be
homes.She addresses the pervasiveness of
street harassment,it's effects and the kind of activism that can serve to counter it.
The result is a cathartic recognizing with the aggression women endure,and an examination
of what equality truly entails
@RogerBW oooh I know that A. Christie was adamant about film adaptations not creating a Love Interest for Poirot, but didn't realize other writers considered it a cornerstone of the Crime / Mystery genre.
https://www.booksns.com/59455/ Do non-Canadians read many Canadian books? #books Growing up in Canada, our teachers, libraries, and school boards did a lot to promote home grown literature to us kids. While I also read a lot of American, British, and even some Australian books growing up, reading “Canadian” is a habit that has endured into my adulthood (of course, I still mostly read American …