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Medieval Reads Day

Get ready for tales of knights, battles, court intrigue and more. It’s Medieval Reads Day! Source: Medieval Reads Day According to Book Riot, it’s Medieval Reads Day, and they’ve got you covered with the following articles: 10 of the Best Medieval Romance Stories 10 Books with Our Favorite Fictional Knights 8 Courtly Medieval Female Writers

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I hope that you are all staying healthy and finding solace in activities that comfort you. Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels From the U.K. comes news that “Book sales have leapt across the country as readers find they have extra time on their hands, with bookshops reporting a

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Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon “Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.” The critical and commercial success of these titles is a result of a combination of factors: initiative on the part of writers’ families or estates; changing

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Reading & Blogging in the Time of COVID-19

Related Posts: Life in an Independent Bookstore Near Seattle Some of the Less Obvious Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic Book-Related News for Self-Isolation and Social Distancing More Arts-Related Pandemic News All of my recent posts have been lists of COVID-19—related links. I just kept collecting these links, almost obsessively. Now that we’re approaching the end

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More Book-Related Pandemic News Luckily, books still exist, and can be their own vehicle for connection. And what better reading material for right now than books where the characters are, in some way, alone? None of these are dystopian (at least not in the traditional sense), but are instead characterized by protagonists with complex interior

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Big Books to Read Right Now

If there’s some extra reading time in your life right now, this article has you covered: 10 Novels Long Enough to Last a Quarantine (If you read slowly!) Long live Big Books! Seriously, please take care of yourselves and each other during this trying time.  I live in Washington State, one of the hottest spots

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My mistress Melancholy Mary Ann Lund, associate professor in Renaissance English literature at the University of Leicester in the UK, discusses Robert Burton (1577-1640) and his The Anatomy of Melancholy, “the most pervasive and elusive of Renaissance diseases.” “One of the great achievements of The Anatomy of Melancholy is to draw together the collective wisdom

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HOME SWEET HO…MAYBE NOT: THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN FICTION So what is it about the haunted house that spans media types? What is it about the concept that transfixes both audience in the land of imagination, and truth seekers in the science world? Why is this one of those subjects that bridges the gap between

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The Million Basic Plots Novelist and screenwriter Ned Beauman laments the existence of the website TV Tropes, which breaks down the plots of all forms of popular-culture storytelling into such minute parts as to prevent him from coming up with any original plot elements. I don’t write fiction but I love reading it, and I

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