Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore. (www.nytimes.com)
Welcome to the Inaugural books@lemmy.world Bingo for 2024!
We wanted to invite other Lemmy readers to join us in a reading challenge, we have tried to structure this so it’s very flexible with regards to genre, and we don’t require you to join or post on !books. We had just put in the work to make it and thought we could share the fun. (Admins/Mods please feel free to delete if...
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» | Таємна кімната (tayemnakimnata.com) Ukrainian
Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» від Емманюеля Лепажа. Історія про Чорнобильську атомну катастрофу очима європейців. "Таємна кімната" - про комікси та мальописи українською.
No one buys books (www.elysian.press)
Not sure I like the “Netflix of books” suggestion(libraries exist!), but I thought this was interesting.
America’s Great Poet of Darkness (hedgehogreview.com)
What Orwell Really Feared (www.theatlantic.com)
After the fall of Small Press Distribution, is it time for “Bandcamp for Small Presses?”
[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...
“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution (lithub.com)
Please see also: beehaw.org/post/12924678
What's in your tsundoku pile?
We’ve all got one. That pile of books waiting to be read, some of them surely doomed to linger for years as other more enticing novels are selected instead. What’s in yours?
Short story; Jamel Brinkley, "That Particular Sunday". (www.guernicamag.com)
How to catalogue my library
Hello! I would like to catalogue my library (I estimate in the low thousands but I am unsure of the precise number). I would like to keep tracks of several things, from the “obvious” like author, title, publisher, edition, to more personal like “when”/“where” did I get it. Was it a gift? Is a lucky find from that one...
📚 Online forum to ask Chicago Manual of Style related questions?
Does anyone know of a good (and hopefully also free) online forum where someone can ask questions related to the Chicago Manual of Style? Chicago Manual of Style’s page has an online question form, but it seems like it’s one of those “we’ll answer your question if we get to it” type of things. I need to ask questions...
Trying to find the title of a book I read once...
OK, y’all. I’m trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it’s not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can’t remember what the spoilers are for....
This bookshop in Fort Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly (coloradosun.com)
Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend
Should Modern Newspapers Publish Poetry? (the-artifice.com)
The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction (www.theverge.com)
Let's talk about Goodreads: Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books? (misshelved.substack.com)
Amazon Kindle e-book updates need a public changelog (goodereader.com)
Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books (lithub.com)
I’m not saying that all self-help is bad. There’s always been an audience for short and snappy self-improvement books (there’s a reason why there are only 7 Habits, not 70), and that’s just fine. But I do worry about a larger phenomenon that I’ll call the bulletpointification of books and media....
What was the last book that surprised you?
Something you thought you would love that turned out to be awful, or vice versa? A great plot twist that blew your mind?...