#booktalk — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #booktalk, aggregated by home.social.
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #quotesoftheday #Jung #CarlJung #reading #readers #chemistry #psychology #psyche #psychologie #books #nonfiction #bookish #literature #literatura #literatur #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTalk #BookTok #Bookwyrm #book #psychoanalysis #bookstadon #readingcommunity #social #personalgrowth #contacts
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #quotesoftheday #Jung #CarlJung #reading #readers #chemistry #psychology #psyche #psychologie #books #nonfiction #bookish #literature #literatura #literatur #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTalk #BookTok #Bookwyrm #book #psychoanalysis #bookstadon #readingcommunity #social #personalgrowth #contacts
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #quotesoftheday #Jung #CarlJung #reading #readers #chemistry #psychology #psyche #psychologie #books #nonfiction #bookish #literature #literatura #literatur #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTalk #BookTok #Bookwyrm #book #psychoanalysis #bookstadon #readingcommunity #social #personalgrowth #contacts
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #quotesoftheday #Jung #CarlJung #reading #readers #chemistry #psychology #psyche #psychologie #books #nonfiction #bookish #literature #literatura #literatur #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTalk #BookTok #Bookwyrm #book #psychoanalysis #bookstadon #readingcommunity #social #personalgrowth #contacts
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung#quotes #quote #quoteoftheday #quotesoftheday #Jung #CarlJung #reading #readers #chemistry #psychology #psyche #psychologie #books #nonfiction #bookish #literature #literatura #literatur #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTalk #BookTok #Bookwyrm #book #psychoanalysis #bookstadon #readingcommunity #social #personalgrowth #contacts
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💥Announcement! Saturday 09.05.2026💥
📖 Book launch: ‘My Friend Kim Jong-Un’ 📖
Saturday, 09.05.2025 | 3.00 pm | Museum of Communication, Leipziger Straße 16, 10117 Berlin
Arrival: U2, U6, Bus 200 Stadtmitte | U2, Bus M48, M85 Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße | Bus 300 Leipziger Straße/Wilhelmstraße
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=17154 - @koreaverband
In this event, Keum Suk Gendry-Kim presents her graphic novel ‘My Friend Kim Jong Un’ and offers insights into her research and artistic process.
With expressive black-and-white drawings, the book tells the story of a North Korean defector and shows how propaganda, loyalty and survival strategies shape everyday life.
The graphic novel invites readers to look beyond political headlines and appreciate the human stories behind them.
This event is kindly supported by LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institution Korea).
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💥Ankündigung! Samstag 09.05.2026💥
📖 Buchvorstellung "Mein Freund Kim Jong-Un" 📖
Samstag, 09.05.2025 | 15:00 Uhr | Museum für Kommunikation, Leipziger Straße 16, 10117 Berlin
Anreise: U2, U6, Bus 200 Stadtmitte | U2, Bus M48, M85 Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße | Bus 300 Leipziger Straße/Wilhelmstraße
📣 Aufruf: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=17154 - @koreaverband
In dieser Veranstaltung stellt Keum Suk Gendry-Kim ihre Graphic Novel "Mein Freund Kim Jong Un" vor und gibt Einblicke in Recherche und künstlerische Umsetzung.
Mit ausdrucksstarken Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnungen erzählt das Buch die Geschichte eines nordkoreanischen Überläufers und zeigt, wie Propaganda, Loyalität und Überlebensstrategien den Alltag prägen.
Die Graphic Novel lädt dazu ein, hinter politische Schlagzeilen zu blicken und die menschlichen Geschichten dahinter wahrzunehmen.
Diese Veranstaltung wird freundlicherweise von LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institution Korea) unterstützt.
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Tonight! Thurs April 23:
Speculative Fiction and the Fight against Fascism
Su Sokol and Rachel Rosen7PM
St Stephen in the fields Church
103 Bellevue Avenue, Torontohttps://www.blogto.com/events/speculative-fiction-and-the-fight-against-fascism-toronto/
#Toronto #SpeculativeFiction #BookTalk #SolarPunk #AntiFascist #Fascism
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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward
Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience.
Sometimes.
If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and dilute your story’s point. When seeking a balance between enticing and telling all, remember to leave room for the reader who wants to enter your story.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/04/09/4-ways-specificity-drives-your-story-forward/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AlltheColorsoftheDark #character
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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward
Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience.
Sometimes.
If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and dilute your story’s point. When seeking a balance between enticing and telling all, remember to leave room for the reader who wants to enter your story.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/04/09/4-ways-specificity-drives-your-story-forward/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AlltheColorsoftheDark #character
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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward
Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience.
Sometimes.
If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and dilute your story’s point. When seeking a balance between enticing and telling all, remember to leave room for the reader who wants to enter your story.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/04/09/4-ways-specificity-drives-your-story-forward/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AlltheColorsoftheDark #character
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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward
Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience.
Sometimes.
If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and dilute your story’s point. When seeking a balance between enticing and telling all, remember to leave room for the reader who wants to enter your story.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/04/09/4-ways-specificity-drives-your-story-forward/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AlltheColorsoftheDark #character
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Booktok-Kultur & -Kritik: Warum Nessadhs Video so hohe Wellen schlägt. In diesem Video besprechen wir ein Booktok-Drama, in das die Content-Creatorin Nessadhs involviert ist. Da ich ja auch Teil der Buchbubble bin, habe ich dazu eine Meinung. #buchsky #booksky #books #booktok #booktalk
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🎯 Planning your week? Add this #booktalk to your list!
LAW AND TECHNOLOGY explores how law can guide innovation while protecting human rights & defending digital freedoms ⚖️💻
📆 Thurs Mar 26
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-law-and-technology-with-ryan-calo-and-danielle-citron/@internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance @daniellecitron #LawAndTechnology #DigitalRights #TechPolicy
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@ChrisJagged
I’m of the opinion that if you do not enjoy the act of writing, then publishing anything is going to feel like a chore. And since there’s isn’t much of a living to be made out of writing (unless you’re writing bestsellers or are professionally emplyed in publishing,etc..), there’s not much point writing is there.I’m retired and I do not need another income stream. I write whe I feel like it and don’t bother with publishing. I’ve got a Wordpress site for anything I wish to share and I don’t care whether it gets read or not.
The upside is that I get a real kick out of writing when the mood takes me. It’s purely a selfish thing for me.
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Some history books give data. This one gives a full picture of a turning point in 1948.
#HistoryBooks #BookTalk #ReadingLife #Books
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🎙️ Meet the voices behind the upcoming LAW AND TECHNOLOGY #booktalk 📖
RYAN CALO, UW Law & Computer Science professor, studies emerging tech & its legal implications 🤖⚖️
DANIELLE CITRON, UVA Law professor & MacArthur Fellow, researches privacy, civil rights & free expression 🔐🗣️
📆 Thurs Mar 26
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-law-and-technology-with-ryan-calo-and-danielle-citron/v@daniellecitron #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @Auths_Alliance @internetarchive
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Writing About Another Art Form in a Novel
Successfully evoking a piece of music or a painting through words is not easy. Nor is it to bring a dance to life on the page, to capture the creation of a film or the performance of a play, or illustrate the shaping of a sculpture. Sure, you can describe it—but will it feel real to the reader? Writing about another art form within a novel, especially if you aren’t a practitioner of that art form yourself, can feel daunting. And yet many, many writers have achieved it successfully.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/16/writing-about-another-art-form-in-a-novel/ -
Writing About Another Art Form in a Novel
Successfully evoking a piece of music or a painting through words is not easy. Nor is it to bring a dance to life on the page, to capture the creation of a film or the performance of a play, or illustrate the shaping of a sculpture. Sure, you can describe it—but will it feel real to the reader? Writing about another art form within a novel, especially if you aren’t a practitioner of that art form yourself, can feel daunting. And yet many, many writers have achieved it successfully.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/16/writing-about-another-art-form-in-a-novel/ -
Writing About Another Art Form in a Novel
Successfully evoking a piece of music or a painting through words is not easy. Nor is it to bring a dance to life on the page, to capture the creation of a film or the performance of a play, or illustrate the shaping of a sculpture. Sure, you can describe it—but will it feel real to the reader? Writing about another art form within a novel, especially if you aren’t a practitioner of that art form yourself, can feel daunting. And yet many, many writers have achieved it successfully.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/16/writing-about-another-art-form-in-a-novel/ -
Writing About Another Art Form in a Novel
Successfully evoking a piece of music or a painting through words is not easy. Nor is it to bring a dance to life on the page, to capture the creation of a film or the performance of a play, or illustrate the shaping of a sculpture. Sure, you can describe it—but will it feel real to the reader? Writing about another art form within a novel, especially if you aren’t a practitioner of that art form yourself, can feel daunting. And yet many, many writers have achieved it successfully.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/16/writing-about-another-art-form-in-a-novel/ -
📖 How can law can shape technology for the public good?
Find out by joining us for the LAW AND TECHNOLOGY #booktalk with Ryan Calo & Danielle Citron as they share a step-by-step approach to navigating legal challenges in the digital age 🏛️💡
📆 Thurs Mar 26
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-law-and-technology-with-ryan-calo-and-danielle-citron/@daniellecitron #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @Auths_Alliance @internetarchive
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CW: Question about Excession by Iain M. Banks
spoilers
I've always been a bit confused by the infinite pregnancy relationship plot in this book.
In retrospect it seems like a terrible idea to send Byr Genar-Hofoen, and Dajeil Gelian off to a remote research outpost together. The Sleeper admits to Byr this was their call. And it says "it was a mistake"
Did the ship know that when it made the choice? Is it "eccentric" after all or just pretending?
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🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
Join us for Ryan Calo’s LAW AND TECHNOLOGY, exploring a clear framework for governing tech ⚖️💻 and defending rights in the digital age. Ryan will be in conversation with legal expert Danielle Citron.
📆 Thurs Mar 26
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-law-and-technology-with-ryan-calo-and-danielle-citron/@daniellecitron @AuthorsAlliance @internetarchive #LawAndTechnology #DigitalRights #TechPolicy
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📢 TOMORROW!
Learn how tech & capitalism shape human creativity in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra.
🎙️📖 A LIVE #booktalk you won’t want to miss.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/ -
✏️📆 Filling out your calendar for the week?
🎙️📖 Consider joining us for a LIVE #booktalk exploring how AI transforms what we create & share in SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/ -
Meet the voices behind next week's #booktalk, SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE 📖
VAUHINI VARA reports for The Atlantic, The New Yorker & NYT Magazine, and is the author of The Immortal King Rao & This is Salvaged.
LUCA MESSARRA, Public Humanities Fellow @internetarchive & Stanford PhD, studies literature, digital humanities & text tech.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/ -
Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/19/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-43/ -
📚 How does tech shape our desire to understand & connect?
Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning journalist & author, for a LIVE #booktalk on SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE w/ co-host Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance
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History fans will enjoy this sharp take on a book that explains the Easter Rising step by step.
#BookTalk #NonFiction #IrishFreedom #books
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How to Make Use of Incidental Characters
Today’s Mad Skill comes to you by way of Jin Min Lee ’s historical epic, Pachinko. Her novel follows the fate of four generations of a family from 1910–1989, first in Japan-occupied Korea, and then as immigrants in Japan.
Perhaps, like me, you’ve had this in your to-be-read pile since its 2017 release, but you were put off by its weighty topic and more than 500 pages.
To that, all I can say is: it’s amazing how much time you can find to read when a book simply won’t release you from its clutches. The undercurrent of this novel, driven by poverty, cultural disadvantage, illness, illicit love, manipulation, prejudice and more, made it both a page-turner and a master class in how to renew tension.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/12/how-to-make-use-of-incidental-characters/ -
This book shows life under military rule and the people who refuse to stay silent. #BookTalk #TrueStories #Myanmar #MustRead #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/rebel-of-rangoon/ -
📚 How do our searches shape who we are, and who profits?
Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning tech journalist and author, for a LIVE podcast recording and #booktalk on SEARCHES, co-hosted by Luca Messarra.
📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/ -
Superhero Therapy File 2 - Climate Change and Alpha The multiverse is on fire. Therapy is booked. So I wrote more superhero shrink stories instead of coping like an adult. https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/superhero-shrink-alpha-scifi-short-story/ #ScienceFiction #SciFi #BookTalk
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🗓️ Mark your calendar.
Join us for the Future Knowledge #Podcast live recording: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS 🎙️
AI is often framed as something supernatural—and those stories are shaping policy. This #booktalk examines what AI is, and what governance should be.
📆 Tues Feb 10
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online event
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-ai-tools-not-gods/Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance.
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Take Five Interview: Virginia Pye on “Marriage and Other Monuments”
Congratulations to Writer Unboxed contributor Virginia Pye on her latest novel, Marriage and Other Monuments , which releases on February 10th!
Set in Richmond, Virginia, Marriage and Other Monuments explores how racial tensions older than the city’s fallen Confederate statues intertwine with pressures at home, forcing two families to confront their challenges head-on.
“A fascinating and audacious novel about family, marriage and a society in flux.”-Kirkus Reviews…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/07/take-five-interview-virginia-pye-on-marriage-and-other-monuments/ -
🎙️ Join us for FUTURE KNOWLEDGE #PODCAST LIVE RECORDING: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS
Featuring Caroline De Cock, LL.M., Head of Research at information labs & a leading voice on digital rights, AI governance, and technology policy. A clear-eyed look at how AI narratives influence real laws.
📆 Tues Feb 10
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online event
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-ai-tools-not-gods/Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance.
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Emergency Reality Snack 1 - Newlyweds - Relationship status. It is complicated. Universe status. Also complicated. Same hat. https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/newlyweds-scifi-short-story-free-sample/ #ScienceFiction #ShortStories #BookTalk
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#BookTalk | Michelle Levine and Nechama Price on Ramban’s readings of God, leadership, and Israel’s emergence as a nation
February 12, 2026 | 2:00am - 3:00am CET | On Zoom:https://yu.libcal.com/calendar/Events/navigating
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#BookTalk | Michelle Levine and Nechama Price on Ramban’s readings of God, leadership, and Israel’s emergence as a nation
February 12, 2026 | 2:00am - 3:00am CET | On Zoom:https://yu.libcal.com/calendar/Events/navigating
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#BookTalk | Michelle Levine and Nechama Price on Ramban’s readings of God, leadership, and Israel’s emergence as a nation
February 12, 2026 | 2:00am - 3:00am CET | On Zoom:https://yu.libcal.com/calendar/Events/navigating
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#BookTalk | Michelle Levine and Nechama Price on Ramban’s readings of God, leadership, and Israel’s emergence as a nation
February 12, 2026 | 2:00am - 3:00am CET | On Zoom:https://yu.libcal.com/calendar/Events/navigating
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#BookTalk | Michelle Levine and Nechama Price on Ramban’s readings of God, leadership, and Israel’s emergence as a nation
February 12, 2026 | 2:00am - 3:00am CET | On Zoom:https://yu.libcal.com/calendar/Events/navigating
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📖 @ericmann's 'PHP Cookbook' - hear about the writing process and more in our engaging chat with him. Listen to the episode here: https://www.phparch.com/podcast/community-corner-interview-with-eric-mann #PHPProgramming #BookTalk
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#CircleOfDays #KenFollett #BookReview #HistoricalFiction #BookCritique #HonestReview #DisappointingRead #ShortFiction #LiteraryReview #BookBlogger #MedievalFiction #ReadersOfInstagram #Bookstagram #FictionReview #BookOpinions #MustReadOrNot #ClassicAuthor #ReadingCommunity #BookAnalysis #Storytelling #LiteratureReview #NovelReview #BooksOfTheWeek #ReadingLife #BookTalk
