#booksaremagic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #booksaremagic, aggregated by home.social.
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Here's your reminder to go and join your local library if you're able. Libraries provide so much more than books, and are such an important part of a community. Especially these days, it's essential to support them, and the librarians, library assistants etc that work there(so many of which are leftist, genuinely kind, helpful and caring).
#jointhelibrary #libraries #librarians #librariansofmastodon #librariesrule #librariesareawesome #antifa #fightfascism #booksareessential #BooksAreMagic
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I just dropped a chapter from my biggest book so far, Shadowed Memories, onto my Substack. Be sure to check it out to get a sense of some of the creepy vibes as well as the clumsy, anxious, main character. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Also, this book and a couple of others will be on sale this week, while I have another sale over on Smashwords coming up next month. Hopefully you're having better luck with sleep than this insane author. Have a great day!
~E.L.F.#booklover #writer #writersblog #substack #booksale #booksaremagic #indieauthors #indiewriter #UrbanFantasy #urbanfantasybooks
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I just dropped a chapter from my biggest book so far, Shadowed Memories, onto my Substack. Be sure to check it out to get a sense of some of the creepy vibes as well as the clumsy, anxious, main character. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Also, this book and a couple of others will be on sale this week, while I have another sale over on Smashwords coming up next month. Hopefully you're having better luck with sleep than this insane author. Have a great day!
~E.L.F.#booklover #writer #writersblog #substack #booksale #booksaremagic #indieauthors #indiewriter #UrbanFantasy #urbanfantasybooks
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Second Consecutive International Booker Prize Validates Publisher's Vision for Translated Works - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/second-consecutive-international-booker-prize-validates-publishers-vision-for-translated-works/
> Translator, poet, and And Other Stories founder and publisher Stefan Tobler talks about taking risks with literature, and what's next for the award-winning indie publisher after 'Taiwan Travelogue' by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, took home the International Booker Prize this week.
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Second Consecutive International Booker Prize Validates Publisher's Vision for Translated Works - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/second-consecutive-international-booker-prize-validates-publishers-vision-for-translated-works/
> Translator, poet, and And Other Stories founder and publisher Stefan Tobler talks about taking risks with literature, and what's next for the award-winning indie publisher after 'Taiwan Travelogue' by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, took home the International Booker Prize this week.
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A Bookstore Grows in Damascus - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/a-bookstore-grows-in-damascus/
> Al Manhal bakery and books hopes to be a space where Syrians can come together to learn about their own history and discuss deep issues following 54 years of dictatorship and censorship.
After decades of a brutal dictatorship, a revolution and then civil war, the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 gave Syrians their long-dreamed-for freedom of expression despite continuing financial hardship. Thousands of Syrians in exile flocked back to the country to visit, such as Actes Sud/Sindbad’s publisher Farouk Mardam-Bey, who returned to Damascus at age 80, having left the city 50 years ago.
Writer and journalist Asser Khattab was one of these visitors who had left Syria in 2017 as a young political refugee, returning after eight years as a French citizen, with the dream of opening a bookshop. Unlike Mardam-Bey, who grew up in Damascus in the 1950s and 60s during a period of cultural effervescence prior to the dictatorship, Khattab’s experience was one of frustration.
Like Mardam-Bey, Khattab grew up in a household where books were all-important. Everyone in his family read, and his grandfather was a writer. He read Arabic classics in his grandfather’s library and western 19th and 20th century classics in English at his missionary school. But what he really wanted to read—contemporary books he read about on the internet—were impossible to find in the numerous yet censored bookshops in Aleppo or Damascus, including ones that carried books in English.
“One day I want to have a curated bookshop,” he thought.
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A Bookstore Grows in Damascus - Publishing Perspectives
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/a-bookstore-grows-in-damascus/
> Al Manhal bakery and books hopes to be a space where Syrians can come together to learn about their own history and discuss deep issues following 54 years of dictatorship and censorship.
After decades of a brutal dictatorship, a revolution and then civil war, the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 gave Syrians their long-dreamed-for freedom of expression despite continuing financial hardship. Thousands of Syrians in exile flocked back to the country to visit, such as Actes Sud/Sindbad’s publisher Farouk Mardam-Bey, who returned to Damascus at age 80, having left the city 50 years ago.
Writer and journalist Asser Khattab was one of these visitors who had left Syria in 2017 as a young political refugee, returning after eight years as a French citizen, with the dream of opening a bookshop. Unlike Mardam-Bey, who grew up in Damascus in the 1950s and 60s during a period of cultural effervescence prior to the dictatorship, Khattab’s experience was one of frustration.
Like Mardam-Bey, Khattab grew up in a household where books were all-important. Everyone in his family read, and his grandfather was a writer. He read Arabic classics in his grandfather’s library and western 19th and 20th century classics in English at his missionary school. But what he really wanted to read—contemporary books he read about on the internet—were impossible to find in the numerous yet censored bookshops in Aleppo or Damascus, including ones that carried books in English.
“One day I want to have a curated bookshop,” he thought.
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I just posted an essay I've been working in honor of the World Book day. I noticed a few mistakes I won't fix for now 😅 is also my day with kids, so it's a bit hard to run to the computer. It is over 7k words long.
https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/The_Five_Ws_(and_One_H)_of_Reading
#WorldBookDay2025
#ReadMoreBooks
#LoveReading
#BooksAreMagic
#Storytime
#ReadingForAll
#BookwormLife
#essay
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I just posted an essay I've been working in honor of the World Book day. I noticed a few mistakes I won't fix for now 😅 is also my day with kids, so it's a bit hard to run to the computer. It is over 7k words long.
https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/The_Five_Ws_(and_One_H)_of_Reading
#WorldBookDay2025
#ReadMoreBooks
#LoveReading
#BooksAreMagic
#Storytime
#ReadingForAll
#BookwormLife
#essay
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I was feeling sad and thought shopping would make me feel better and then I shopped books…a lot of them!
#books #reading #literature #BooksAreMagic #booksarelife #booksarecool #booksaremylife #bestfriends
