@futurebird I almost bought this book today in your honor!
"Perhaps he had moved on, heading further south to the sun, only to become lost among the travellers who passed lifetimes searching for themselves in shadowless landscapes." Ooh, lovely sentence! - Christopher Fowler, The Water Room
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
"Short shrift is given to pretty much anything east of Jerusalem, and the focus is more or less on how the trade routes affected the cities around the Mediterranean. The second half of the book covers events after Columbus, and the ways that exploitation of the New World catapulted the sad little backwater called Western Europe into the economic center of the world"
https://www.librarything.com/work/16349642/reviews/280681003
New Books, Old Store
"Founded in 1745, the Moravian Book Shop is located in the heart of historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and is not only the oldest bookstore in America but the oldest continuously operating bookstore in the world...In the world! It’s rather surprising that East Asia or Western Europe do not have a continuously operating bookstore older than 1745. Today it is largely a gift shop, and is also the Moravian University bookstore"
Reading a hundred-year-old book is hard enough even when it isn't from another country.
"See 'er groinies? - Rings, I mean. Close on a thousand quid's worth there, I reckoned."
What do you get when you cross a revitalized library bookmobile with a bookstore? A bookstore on wheels called Babycake’s Book Stack
“We want to have something that’s very fun and playful and colorful, but also include a lot of different cultures in it. I want everyone when they walk into the store to feel comfortable and say, ’This is a place where I belong and I belong here even if it’s not my cultural heritage month.”
Ran across an odd expression, "caught a bosso" in a book and searched for a definition. Found someone asking the exact same question about the exact same book twelve years ago. And no, it's not rhyming slang.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/82785/etymology-of-catch-a-bosso#82795
Idea for a book site: instead of rating books, give the user two books and ask, "which was better?" and build a relative ranking from that.
Merry Christmas to me!
Went with a book tree for Christmas this year. How many titles can you read?
Reading Fer-De-Lance by Rex Stout, 6th edition 1974 but the book was originally published in 1934. There is a short discussion about the radio show "Joy Boys" which aired in the 60's and 70's. 🤨 Stout must have updated the reference from another radio show in the 30's? I wonder what it said originally.
This is a reminder to myself that I bought this book, I want to read it, and I can't find it. 🥴 #Bookstodon
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
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Greatest female detective ever?
(Or reply with your choice) #bookstodon
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
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Mystery writers make a character and write a bunch of books about them. Hercule Poirot, Kinsey Millhone, Alex Delaware. Are there any sci-fi or fantasy authors doing something similar? John Carter and Tarl Cabot are some older examples (and Tarl Cabot pretty much descended into porn anyway) #bookstodon
Posting as a public service in case you ever need to perform a daring cave rescue through a tiny passageway of an incapacitated person on a stretcher. 🤯
Nevada Barr, Blind Descent #bookstodon
@CarveHerName And was the backdrop for the brilliant Brother Cadfael series of mystery novels. #bookstodon
Not sure where this came from, but THIS is Travis McGee in the flesh. There's not been a movie version yet with a big, bronzed beach bum AFAIK. #bookstodon
What's the best way to interact with Bookwyrm? Do I need an account or can I just follow people on that site?