#booktip — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #booktip, aggregated by home.social.
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📖 Ik las het #boek van Hilary Mantel Schrijver ZIJN.
Maar ik ben eigenlijk nu meer benieuwd naar Giving Up The Ghost.Translation down below site 👇
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BookTip; Le soleil des Scorta, Prix Goncourt awardee, family saga set in Apulia, Italy. The story about how the family members face difficulties and find their way in life is told with warmth and intimacy. In English The Scorta's sun, in Swedish Familjen Scorta.
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Boktips/Book tip; On était des loups by Sandrine Colette (Swedish title: Vi var vargar. There is no English translation as far as I know.) An exploration of the outer landscape as well as the inner. Hardship, friendship and echoes of a childhood. Stunning.
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Boktips / Book tip. For people who know Swedish - it's not been translated.
En allians av siden och silver, första delen i serien Jade och Bärnsten. Författaren Sara Lilja Visén har berättat att hon började fundera på nordisk historia och kinesisk historia; vad hade kunnat hända om dessa kulturer hade mötts? Denna saga är resultatet. Jag slukade boken på två dagar. Serien är 5 böcker - alla är skrivna men inte utgivna. Del 2 släpps 13 september.
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BookTip: Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen (1984), a coming-of-age novel set in Oslo in the 1960s and 1970s. I devoured this book! 5/5 Won votes among Norwegian readers both as "best Norwegian novel the last 25 years" in 2006 and "best post war Oslo novel", I say both well deserved. I read it in Norwegian, but it's been translated; Title for English, Swedish, French editions: Beatles, German title: Yesterday.
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Book tip. Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit by Annie Ernaux. Short notes in diary form; reflections, glimpses and memories of Ernaux's mother who is affected by Alzheimer's disease. Beautiful and ugly, painful and very human. This is a BookCrossing bok that I caught at the BookCrossing convention in Wageningen NL i April.
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. BookCrossing book that will soon continue its journey. The story made a strong and deep impression. Rich and detailed, the different characters are beautifully portrayed; it's heartbreaking, touching, warm, sad and full of love, struggle, devotion, friendship and humanity. A story seldom told and often forgotten; the story of the Korean diaspora; a history I knew nothing about before reading this book. I recommend!
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
A reframing of the past and present of Black #resistance — both nonviolent and violent — to white #supremacy.
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First published in 2019, Starve Acre is eerie and suspenseful, but in a very elegant, subdued way. Its rural setting and folkloric elements place it firmly in the tradition of English folk horror genre, where there is a special - troubled - connection between the protagonists, the land and its numinous, uncanny presences.
Read the rest of my latest book tip on the blog:
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Feeling inspired reading Patty Krawec today ✊🏽
"Knowing what our roots sink into--what they wrap around and bring to the surface--helps us understand the tastes and sensations of our present."
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You lot have probably already discovered this, but I'm only 1/3 into James Bridle's Ways of Being and absolutely loving it.
Decentering humans. Dryly observing we don't need to fear a future AI takeover as it's already here (in the form of corporations running out of control). Calling a famous fossil by its Amharic name ('Dinkinesh' ድንቅነሽ) instead of its pop culture nickname. Engaging with Margulis, Meijer, Hofstadter alongside LeGuin, Kingsolver, Tchaikovski. What's not to love?
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#booktip: #Catholicism for Dummies is on sale for $2.99 on the US #Kindle store: https://amzn.to/43fLPM7
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One reason Le Guin's Hainish cycle is so fascinating and compelling to me is that it is deeply informed by anthropological work on human cultural diversity (Le Guin's parents were anthropologists)
Reading The Dawn of Everything by Graeber/Wengrow fills me with a renewed awe about our past and even with hope for the future — diverse, multi-threaded, playful, resilient
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#BookTip, non-fiction:
"Artificial Unintelligence" by Meredith Broussard.
A delightful read, not dry at all. Despite the quite serious topic!