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The Bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues and tinges And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. Nancy Byrd Turner

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” Ursula K. Le Guin

These really looked like prospective xmas presents. I thought I would post because there are so many fantasy writers on here.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like coming home. Louisa May Alcott

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valéry

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/online-platform-independent-bookshops-ebooks-uk

“Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.” Chloe Thurlow

The chief executive of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, Melissa Bell, has published an apology for the 2025 summer reading list that appeared in a summer section supplement produced by a 'third-party content provider'. It said: "Instead of the meticulously reported summer entertainment coverage...

New blog post by Claire G The Power of Questions How can questions drive plot? Here’s a summary of what I’ve learned. Un-put-downable books utilise these types of questions: The long (big) question: this is the novel’s overarching question which can be used in your elevator pitch and is...

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. John Waters

I was listening to this and found it fascinating. Esp in light that my SFF is 'for men' lol...and I do take the time to explain some theories and concepts which might put off women. But really what it made me think about is the claim, and @AgentPete can maybe confirm or not: Most books in the...

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing" Michel Houellebecq

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/good-riddance-to-literary-fiction/

A lot of interesting points arising in this... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14497979/Russell-Brand-sued-failing-write-two-self-help-books-sex-abuse.html

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and...

The to-read pile is more than just a physical stack of books: it's a tower of ambitions failed, hopes unrealised, good intentions unfulfilled. Worse still, it's a cold hard reminder of mortality. Already, I have intentions to read more books than I can hope to manage in a normal lifetime. How...

The Verge has the story: Personally, it doesn’t really impact me since I’ve fallen out of love with my Kindle. I find reading on it is a soulless experience. But for others, this may be important.

I'm looking for books to read that have good examples of Father/daughter relationships, moral dilemmas; the boundaries between doing the right thing and doing the legal thing (not always the same). Stories that look at the parental dilemma when they find their child is guilty of a crime, and/or...

New blog post by Claire G What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Bear With Me! Okay, this is probably a weird analogy but this is how my (bird-brained!) mind works. So, in terms of the title question, I’ve thought long and hard about this and, with my limited scientific knowledge, I’ve...

It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI. By James Folta January 14, 2025, 1:12pm It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebook...