Books

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

The X-Files is turning 30, and we have a fun list of books about monsters and aliens to help Mulder and Scully celebrate!

Looking for your own bookish community online? Let's take a look at some of the best online book clubs, 2023 edition!

Get your ghoul on with these exciting new horror books guaranteed to have you sleeping with the lights on — during the day!

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

What the title says, I'm tired of the trope where humans are the least advanced in the universe.

I'd like to read something different where we're the more advanced ones (not necessarily the most advanced). As an example I quite enjoyed the Ender's Game sequels and the angle of us being the more advanced ones was quite interesting.

Do you have any recommendations?

Let's try this as a 'Link' this week; it seems 'Thread' and 'Photo' posts aren't being created correctly and aren't federating.

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

Sharing other's review of the book what I'm reading now. It's interesting.

PhD candidate and former SASE Blog Chief Editor Laura Adler review's Jake Rosenfeld's recent book "You’re Paid What You’re Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy".

Revisit world conflicts of the past (that we hope not to repeat) with these great military historical novels.

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

I'm being gifted a "Little Free Library" for my birthday and I'm super excited to get started.

This is the one on the way:

https://shop.littlefreelibrary.org/collections/little-free-libraries/products/composite-double-door-cottage-blue-little-free-library?variant=43439460974741

While they're good at listing the EXTERNAL dimensions, they don't really cite the INTERNAL dimensions.

Any idea? I've never had to shop for books by size before. LOL.

I've got MORE than a few ideas after working in an actual library and bookstores for years and years, but I'm interested to know...

If size were no object, what books would YOU give away for free? 🤔

Here are some of the best new books out this week, what they are about, and why you should add them to your TBR!

• What book is currently on your nightstand?
• Who is the author?
• What genre?
• How do you like it?
• Would you recommend it to others?

I would like to better manage my time reading and not get carried away. While I can set a time limit on any ebook app, I would prefer to limit myself by amount read (e.g. words, pages, chapters) so that rushing through the story is not incentivised.

I use an android device but feel free to mention apps on any platform.

Add a few new titles to your art reading list this month, including a Whitfield Lovell catalogue, a guide to making your own paint out of plants, and much more.

Paramount has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion in cash, after more than three years of trying to offload the book publishing powerhouse.

These overrated literary classics have had more than enough time in the sun. It's time to spend our time with some others!

What book is currently on your nightstand?
Who is the author?
What genre?
How do you like it?
Would you recommend it to others?

I'm looking for recommendations. I usually use Overdrive with books I've downloaded (I think in the epub format). But now I hear that Overdrive is no longer being supported (I think the company wants people to use their Libby app instead). I'm hoping to find something open source and privacy minded. Also not wild about what Overdrive is doing to public libraries

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

8 of the Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books To Read in August 2023: Get ready, because there are new must-read science fiction and fantasy books hitting the shelves this month!
https://bookriot.com/new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-august-2023/

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