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Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions

Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…

Listen Below!

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg

Listen on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/0U_TdlAMyMQ

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Things Discussed In This Episode

Is It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend

The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading

What’s the perfect length for a book?

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu 

The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton

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I like them and I cannot lie.
#bigbooks #literature #bookstagram #reading

James Alexander Thom - Tecumseh

Uit de boekenkast van mijn vader, deze vuistdikke biografische roman, die heerlijk wegleest en me toch achterliet met een dubbel gevoel.

175 jaar na de dood van de vrijheidsstrijder Tecumseh is het een witte kolonistenzoon die het boek schrijft. Volgens mij heeft hij het integer proberen te doen, vanuit het perspectief van de ‘indianen’, echt onderzoek gedaan en vast met goedkeuring van Shawnee, zoals zijn vrouw.

Maar toch.

#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #BigBooks #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon

US Book Show Highlights Big Books, AI, and the Value of Direct Sales: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Last week saw the US Book Show, a single-day but large event that comes far enough after other major gatherings—like the London Book Fair—to feel as though a world of water has passed under the bridge since then.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/us-book-show/

#artificialintelligence #bigbooks #directsales #midlistauthors #publishingtrends
@indieauthors

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon

Gravity's Rainbow, by Pynchon
Middlemarch, by George Eliot

#books #bookstodon #longreads #BigBooks #reading

@bookstodon Often, lonnnnnnggg books get overlooked. (I am guilty of this myself.) So, Bibliophiles, tell us which HUGE tomes are worth the hefty page count.

A few of my rec's:

11/22/63, Stephen King
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
2666, Roberto Balaňo
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway
The Third Person, Emma Grove
Wayward, Chuck Wendig

#books #bookstodon #reading #bibliophile #tome #BigBooks

Spending the morning with The Essential Plato. I am currently on Protagoras.

I started reading this in May of last year and have been slowly making my way through. I haven't picked it up in a while though.

#CurrentlyReading #books #philosophy #bookish #tomes #BigBooks

@bookstodon

This month our #BowieBookClub pick doubled as a weight lifting regimen. We read the fascinating doorstop of a #historybook on the Russian Revolution - Orlando Figes' "A People's Tragedy" - http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/1/23/a-peoples-tragedy-by-orlando-figes
#reading #bigbooks #RussianRevolution1917 @bookstodon

Are there any books you are intimidated by? There are several that come to mind.
1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2. The Books of Jacob by Olga Tozarczuk
3. ...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmeyer
4. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

These 4 are all books I own physical copies of & that I think I want to read. But, gosh.

They are big.

Like literal door stops, especially 1, 3, & 4.
#bigbooks #BookToot #books #reader #question #readingcommunity #bookstagram #tbr