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Apparently, People Are Just Reading The Dialogue Parts Of Books Now, And Bookworms Are Furious
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (353+ words) Apparently, People Are Just Reading The Dialogue Parts Of Books Now, And Furious Book Lovers Everywhere Have Some *Very* Choice Words As a full-time writer at BuzzFeed, I cover books, sex, relationships, sitcoms, and all things pop culture. A post…...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for children’s reading to be treated as a ‘right’, in final laureate lecture
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (531+ words) Speaking at the Royal Institution, the author and screenwriter linked falling shared reading rates to poverty, housing insecurity and social media Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged policymakers to treat children’s reading as a “right” rather than a parental duty, warning that…...
Poem of the week: Dream-Pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (394+ words) From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving If there were dreams to sell. What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life’s…...
The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (814+ words) The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world warAs I started reading Alice Jolly’s new novel, whose narrator is a mute autistic girl in wartime Vienna, I…...
Black British book festival launches publisher
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (328+ words) BBBF organiser Selina Brown announced the new project, focusing on undiscovered authors, following a decline in the publication of Black literature The organiser of the Black British book festival, Selina Brown, announced earlier this month that the festival will launch…...
The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1630+ words) From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales from the director of Almost FamousCameron Crowe spent his youth being in the right place at the right time. In 1964, aged seven, he was taken by…...
Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser review – painfully clunky lessons in art
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (796+ words) This French bestseller, in which a girl and her grandfather visit Paris museums, aims to be a Sophie’s World for art history – but the conversations are sentimental and simplisticThe complaint that cynics often make about modern art is that most…...
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1301+ words) The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiressEverything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the…...