#readindies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #readindies, aggregated by home.social.
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"The footprints of others": review of 'After Kenyon', a sequence of thirty poems by Jeanne Griggs, published by Broadstone Books. #ReadIndies #Bookstodon https://wp.me/sezD85-knyn
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My review of 'Spies' (2002) by Michael Frayn for #ReadIndies #BookSky @FaberBooks https://wp.me/sezD85-spies
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“… you can fool an inexpert buyer in two ways…” @BL_Publishing #readindies @medwardsbooks
Despite having covered two British Library Crime Classics last month for #readindies (as well as a Galileo GA mystery) my taste for classic crime has not diminished, and I'm still playing catch-up with review copies!! Today's title is one I read during February but ran out of slots on the blog to cover; so here it is now and hopefully it counts are we are in the catch-up period.
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“Peace had come to the whole world except Little Biggling.” @Galileobooks #readindies
It's obvious to anyone taking even a casual glance at the Ramblings that I love Golden Age crime; I regularly cover the reissues in the British Library Crime Classics range, and in fact wrote about two Christianna Brand titles earlier in the month. However, the BL are not the only ones releasing some stellar mysteries; Cambridge-based Galileo Publishers have put out some great titles…
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Review of 'Notes from the Sofa' (2017) by the late great Raymond Briggs for #ReadIndies. #Bookstodon
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Horsey heroines and strange new worlds… #octaviaebutler #myreading #readindies @OxUniPress
Books about books or favourite authors always make pleasurable reading, and I've covered on the blog a few titles released by Oxford University Press in their 'My Reading' series. The latter is an interesting idea where an author or book is discussed by another writer, and I've very much enjoyed their looks at Dickens, Proust and Colette. However, a new title, released tomorrow,…
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Review of 'Hieroglyphics and other stories' by Anne Donovan, read for @kaggsy59 and Lizzy Siddal's #ReadIndies.
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Winding Up the Week #407
https://bookjotter.com/2025/01/11/winding-up-the-week-407/
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, make an important announcement about Dewithon, direct you to the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, prepare for Reading Independent Publishers Month and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet. #ReadIndies #dewithon #histficreadingchallenge #bookstodon #books -
“…my own dear lady’s quick, intuitive brain…” @RenardPress #ReadIndies #LadyMolly
I can hardly believe it's the end of February - and #ReadIndies! Luckily, we've had an extra day this year, and to round up the month, Lizzy and I have been buddy reading a book from one of our favourite micro-presses - Renard! It's a reprint of a fascinating collection of classic crime stories which I'd not come across before; and it turned out to be a real treat.
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“…a change of mindset, a mental shift…” #writecutrewrite @BodPublishing #ReadIndies
February seems to be flying by, and today I want to share with you my penultimate book for #ReadIndies. This is from another university-related press, and it's one which has featured on the Ramblings many times - Bodleian Library Publishing. I've covered quite a few books from the Bodley, most recently the marvellous "Handwritten", which featured some beautiful manuscripts from their…
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Nonfiction Reader Challenge: The Collected Schizophrenias
#ReadIndies #ReadNonFicChal #Health #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Nonfiction
https://enterenchanted.com/nonfiction-reader-challenge-the-collected-schizophrenias/
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Review of 'The Flying Classroom' (1933) by #ErichKästner ('Das fliegende Klassenzimmer' translated by Anthea Bell, illustrated by Walter Trier).
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Welcome to #ReadIndies 2024!
Here we are once more to support independent publishers by reading and reviewing their fantastic output. Trading conditions haven’t got any easier for Indy publishers since Lizzy and I launched Reading Independent Publishers Month in 2021, and so we hope you’ve got your book stacks all ready to dive into. I’ll quickly recap on the two rules that apply to #ReadIndies:
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/welcome-to-readindies-2024/
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Winding Up the Week #359
https://bookjotter.com/2024/01/06/winding-up-the-week-359/
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce the fourth Reading Independent Publishers Month and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet. #amreading #bookstodon #ReadIndies -
Announcing Reading Independent Publishers Month 4 #ReadIndies
Lizzy and I are delighted to be hosting #ReadIndies for the fourth time. Not only does it give us good reason to support our favourite indie publishers more visibly than usual, but it’s also a perfect excuse to discover new ones. It is with discovery in mind that this year’s badge has been populated with the 41 micro publishers (publishers with 5 employees or less) that have, under the aegis of Will Dady of…
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@fivebooks Affinities by Brian Dillon from Fitzcarraldo Editions - quite wonderful and the perfect book for #ReadIndies