Some books about books for my friend @popp.bsky.social đ I would add âAmong Othersâ by Jo Walton which is a GREAT book about books, and an excellent book club pick for generating discussion.
if you're looking for what to read next i've started a list of the last books each author wrote before winning the booker prize đđ catalog.fyi/users/popp/l...
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Hey, if youâre looking for a well-designed (and free!) ebook of Frankstein for Hot Frank Summer (starting tomorrow!), check out this Standard Ebooks edition. [standardebooks.org]
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Frankenstein: A tragic scientist creates a monster in his laboratory.
âthe politics of âFrankensteinâ are as intricate as its structure of storiesâ jill leporeâs 200th anniversary piece is a vital preread for #hotfranksummerwww.newyorker.com/magazine/201... đŠ
From 2018, Jill Lepore on why Mary Shelleyâs novel has accreted so many wildly different and irreconcilable readings and restagings in the two centuries since its publication.
iâm in!
âHe cut 400,000 lawns and he was dead. In his next life he was the grassâ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/400...
He cut one lawn. And it was done. It was fresh. There was that smell in the air. He cut another. And it was good. He got a tip. There were no markings from the tires on the driveway. He cut ten lawns ...
âYou cannot, in other words, expect young people to memorise and regurgitate history, economics, political science, moral philosophy and so on for their exams while prohibiting them from taking their education on the roadâ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/ma...
On 25 April, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the main...
The Junk Collector by James Laughlin, the frontispiece for his scrapbook/memoir The Way It Wasn't catalog.fyi/books/the-wa...
