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Sales Surge for Dystopian Books

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Sales Surge for Dystopian Books The Handmaid’s Tale. On Tyranny. Men Explain Things to Me. These are the […]

5 Amazing New Native American Picture Books

Being Home by Traci Sorell & Michaela Goade I will read any and all books by Traci Sorell and Michaela Goade, and this team-up is phenomenal. A young Cherokee girl is moving out of her city home. She says goodbye to her favorite tree, to the swing on it, to the house with the stair […]

I have just read "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" by British author Reni Eddo-Lodge. I was disappointed.

I have just read "Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race" by British author Reni Eddo-Lodge This is the goodreads page https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33606119-why-i-m-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race The book originated from a blog post by the author; she wrote about it in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race My opinion of the book is not positive. It's almost as if […]

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis: The Visionary Scientist Who Played a Key Role in World War 2 — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s frustration. After attending Christ’s Hospital school in Sussex, where he displayed a knack for mathematics […]

If someone you barely know hands you a book and says, "Here, I really think you’ll like this book". Is the unspoken expectation to give the book back after reading it, or to keep the book it’s yours now?

I've had several instances in my life where this scenario has occured. Sometimes I have held on to the book for so long because I'm reading too many other books, and it simply gets forgotten about. By the time I get around to it months or years have gone by and the giver of the […]

Ducks, Newburyport

Hello! I am currently reading Ducks, Newburyport. I have been ill for the past three days or so and I have been on a loop reading this huge book (I am at page 200 of ~1200, spanish edition) and I feel kind of overwhelmed of how expansive it is. I cannot stop reading but I […]

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

One of the worst books I’ve ever read. A piece of right wing propaganda disguised as a mediocre thriller. The characters’ behaviors made no sense throughout the book and had no substance really either. Seriously yall I’m not hard to please when it comes to books but this one pissed me off so much. It’s […]