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Tag Archives: Books
Books on the Subway |Writers Bone
Kehdi walked through the station with purpose, her burgundy booties clicking on the tiles, to a support beam adorned with peeling blue paint, a newly-installed electronic emergency help point, and a plaque with the station’s location listed on its side. She clutched a copy of Maya Angelou’s Mom & Me & Mom in her manicured hand and lifted her smartphone in the other to capture an Instagram-worthy photo of the book with the station sign in the background…
Eat, Pray, Love | Word Wabbit
One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia By Elizabeth Gilbert @2006, 12 hours, 49 minutes. Audible version read by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Back in 2008 a coworker said, “You really gotta read this book!” […]
Book Quiz: Do You Know Who Wrote These Famous Novels?
Can you name the famous authors who wrote these novels? Click the link to find out.
Via http://www.playbuzz.com/briantracey10/do-you-actually-know-who-wrote-these-famous-novels
2016 Longlist Announcement | The Bath Novel Award
THE BATH CHILDREN’S NOVEL AWARD 2016 LONGLIST.
This year, 715 manuscripts were submitted by unsigned writers across the globe. From an incredibly strong field, 26 novels have been longlisted, with a range of settings from 19th century Castile to future wintry worlds via coastal Devon, Texan creeks and a sewage tunnel beneath Buckingham Palace…
11 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: December 2016 | Writer’s Bone
Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books we’ve read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Here are their December 2016 recommendations…
Candy for Bibliophiles
There is a Word for Buying Books and Not Reading Them…
Collecting books and not reading them is, shall we say, textbook behavior. At least for some of you, and you know who you are. Suffering from the condition of racking up book purchases of $100, $200 or $1,000 without ever bending a spine? There’s a Japanese word for you…
Via http://www.ozy.com/acumen/theres-a-word-for-buying-books-and-not-reading-them
The Greatest Books of All Time | As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what they consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.
Here is their selection…
Via https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/?platform=hootsuite
11 Incredibly Long Books Worth Reading
Personally, I’m down with a long book — I love diving into a story and knowing I’ll get to stick around for a while, spending quality time with the characters I love and the world they live in. But at the same time, I get it: not everyone wants to sit down with all 1049 pages of The Arabian Nights when there are so many other good books to read; ones that require far less significant a time commitment. Some of us have Netflix binges to get back to, after all. But with that said, there are still some especially long books that are definitely worth the time it takes to read them.
Here are 11 of the longest books that are still worth your time…
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