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Anyone planning on doing any fun reading challenges next year?

#books #bookstodon #reading #ReadingChallenge #AmReading
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading #readingchallenge

And more distressing news

Is it a matter of alternatives to reading, the ‘mechanisation of reading in children’s education a culmination of generations growing up believing that reading is simply a ‘skill’ and not reading to their young children, library closures (fierce in the UK), taking them to libraries and buying books?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust

#Reading #Bookstadon #ReadingForPleasure #Children #UK #ChildrensLiterature #Literature
#uk #children #reading #literature #childrensLiterature #readingforpleasure #bookstadon

Shepherd is a nifty book discovery site that you should check out if you're a reader!

Each year they hold a three fave reads extravaganza, which eventually produces a books of 2024 list.

Here are my three:
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/mark-a-rayner

#book #books #bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #reading #readers
Mark A. Rayner's 3 favorite reads in 2024 Showing the cover art for: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Want to know Mark A. Rayner's Top 3 Books of 2024?

Mark's top 3 reads of 2024 include Kafka on the Shore and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
Shepherd
#book #writing #writingcommunity #books #reading #bookstodon #readers

This morning on the tram:

A little old lady in a traditional Transylvanian dress (skirts and petticoats, blouse, head scarf, etc.) was sitting on the tram, completely absorbed in a book.

The book was an erotic thriller titled "In the bed of the mafia"

Go little old lady

#reading #books #bookstodon #Budapest
#books #reading #bookstodon #budapest

My retail therapy is ordering translations of underappreciated epics online late at night.

#reading #bookstodon #epics #folklore #WomensEpics
#reading #bookstodon #folklore #epics #womensepics

We (the NGO I work for) put a survey on FB about adults who read folktales / fairy tales.

It's getting a bunch of trolls.
How is THIS a post getting the trolls?!

"Adults should read literature, not infantile gibberish."

"Tales for adults are called fantasy fiction. Or the news."

"Doesn't this organization do anything else but stories?"

What. The. Hell.

#WTF #folklore #folktales #reading #storytelling
#reading #folklore #WTF #storytelling #folktales

The Change series by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith is my favorite YA fantasy.

By "fantasy" I mean post-apocalyptic western with mutant superpowers :D

This series does diversity right. It's part of the setting. The story also features a very cute throuple, a demisexual main character, and realistic depiction of PTSD. And yes, it's well written and exciting. Final book out in October.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0753KXMV3?binding=kindle_edition&qid=1718896357&sr=1-1&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin

#YA #fantasy #books #amreading #reading #bookstodon #pride #representation
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading #fantasy #pride #representation #ya

It is surprising how often, when I say "Hey, I'm reading this really interesting book..." people immediately respond with "Oh, you have TIME to read?! I don't even..."

Like... what is that?
What makes people jump right to that?

It bugs me for a bunch of reasons.

1. Yes, I am busy too. I make time because it relaxes me.

2. No, I don't care how much you read and I'm not judging you. You don't need to defend yourself.

3. I wanted to share something I found fun, geez.

#reading
#reading

I am barely ready for this year's A to Z Blogging, but I am already super excited for next year's theme 😅

I just decided that I'll do another reading challenge - reading 26 epics about women.

And yes, I already have a list. 26 traditional epics with female protagonists from around the world.

Hopefully a year will be enough to read all of them 😄

#Amreading #Books #folklore #epics #women #WomensHistoryMonth #storytelling #reading
#books #reading #folklore #storytelling #amreading #Women #womenshistorymonth #epics

The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to
Elizabeth Quinn https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/07/the-magic-of-audiobooks-deep-down-we-still-long-to-be-read-to #books #audiobooks #reading
#books #reading #audiobooks

"What are you reading?"

Um let's see

I'm reading a book about underground historians in modern day China (Sparks) for a reading challenge

I'm reading Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett for a book club

I'm reading the poem a day book by @brianbilston

I'm reading The flowering wand by Sophie Strand in the evenings because it's enchanting

I'm reading Apollodorus' Library for research

Yes I can keep them straight
I'm a bit book promiscuous?... 😅

#reading #AmReading #bookstodon #books
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading @Brian Bilston

As a student I loved reading Vonnegut and as a young adult gorged on Adams. So today I'm very much looking forward to this #weekend #reading 😀
@markarayner
Cover of Alpha Max by Mark A Rayner
#reading #weekend @Mark A. Rayner

I was today years old when I learned that Felix Salten was Hungarian.
Makes sense, we love our children's books with a side of trauma 😆

#books #reading
#books #reading

Just discovered: a more evil way to mark your place in a book than dog-earing.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #evil #books #book #reading
A black cat with its mouth open gnawing on the corner of an open book, possibly George Orwell's 1984
#book #Cats #books #reading #catsofmastodon #cat #catstodon #evil

I suddenly felt the need to read more poetry, and now, after about two decades, I'm writing poetry again too.
It feels good.

#poetry #writing #reading
#writing #reading #Poetry

I'm alternating between T.H. White's 1939 novel about King Arthur's childhood, "The Sword in the Stone", and a new biography of the amazing 18th century #Stockholm poet Carl Michael Bellman, whose main themes were drink, sex and death.

#books #bookstodon #reading
#books #reading #bookstodon #stockholm

*Me, burying myself in a pile of TBR books I deliberately put off till 2024*

Hey all! Happy new year! Whatcha reading? 😊 Any reading goals, wishes, hopes or resolutions?

#AmReading #books #bookstodon #reading
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading

So here is a question to the @bookstodon community: what is the best #nofiction book you have read this year?

#reading #books #AmReading #bookstodon
#books #reading #bookstodon #amreading #nofiction @bookstodon group

They just published the categories for the 2024 Polymath Reading Challenge 🥰 It's the 10th year so people got to vote in past favorites.
The list is:

1. Gastronomy
2. Grammar, linguistics, foreign languages
3. Non-European history
4. Russia
5. Crime
6. Human connections
7. Film, cartoons, television
8. Mental health
9. Famous women
10. Addiction
11. Secrets and hoaxes
12. Individual random category

#reading #bookstodon #ReadingChallenge
#reading #bookstodon #readingchallenge

At the Budapest International Book Fair, where you can get a free haircut for reading out loud. 😄

#reading #books #bookstodon #Budapest #BookFair #image
Photo from the book fair building. There is a colorful carpet on the floor, with books scattered on it. A girl sits on a small chair, reading from a yellow book, while a man kneels behind her, cutting her hair. There are people sitting and standing around, listening.
#books #reading #bookstodon #budapest #image #bookfair

Last night I finished a funhouse mirror of a book, C.D. Rose's 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else', which could almost be a cross between Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' and is a comic metafiction of literary games.

The narrator is not worlds away from the author and they share a first book, 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure'. By the end I felt like I had just stepped off a fast, but exhilarating merry-go-round.

#books #reading @bookstodon
Photo of book cover of C.D. Rose's Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else'
#books #reading @bookstodon group

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