RE: LeoThread 2024-11-17 10:12

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Yesterday's edition:

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The 50 best books of 2024 – ranked

Article via The Telegraph

How a politician went from celebrated hero to forgotten nobody

Yuri Herrera’s novel, Season of the Swamp, imagines how a Mexican revolutionary may have spent his exile in the messy glamour of New Orleans

Article via The Telegraph

Dawn’s Early Light by Kevin Roberts review – weird vibes and pyromania from Project 2025 chief

Head of Heritage Foundation wants to burn it all down in his new book and won't shut up about it.

Article via The Guardian

35 Gifts For Book Lovers That Aren’t Books

Gifts that are as just satisfying as a new book... because they probably don't have room on their bookshelves for another one anyway.

Article via BuzzFeed

Stock up on hundreds of free books on the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day

How to get free books on Stuff Your Kindle Day. Get romance books featuring “cinnamon roll main male characters.”

Article via Mashable

10 Mystery Books That Are as Funny as They Are Clever

Looking for a good laugh with a side of intrigue? Check out these 10 funny mystery books filled with quirky characters, wild plots...

Article via Woman's World

Christy Brown book returned to Irish library after 53 years

A book found in a London flat has been returned to an Irish library more than 53 years after it was taken out...

Article via BBC

Sigrid Rausing: ‘I like the idea that we – the living – are the ghosts haunting the dead’

In 2022, Sigrid Rausing's friend of 30 years, acclaimed Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, died of terminal cancer.

Article via The Independent

Garth Greenwell: ‘I didn’t read Middlemarch until my late 30s. Why didn’t someone intervene? ’

The novelist on Virginia Woolf's luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writer.

Article via The Guardian

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is a history book as gripping as a thriller

Simon Parkin is the author of two books on World War Two - but is latest is easily the most dramatic.

Article via iNews

Anton Hur On the ‘Korean Wave’ in Books

A hit in Korea, Indeterminate Inflorescence is a breathtaking and refreshing collection of aphorisms on poetry and writing poetry, that acts as inspiration...

Article via Foyles

Books of the year 2024

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.

Article via New Statesman

Seven books to get kids reading again — Dr Seuss, Wimpy Kid and more

Fewer children are reading for pleasure than ever before. Jokes, adventure and, yes, comics will help to get them hooked.

Article via The Times

Book Review – Salvage by Mark Baillie

A lifetime of poor housing, dirty jobs and smoking has caught up with him, and now his emphysema's at stage four

Article via The Edinburgh Reporter

8 Biggest Changes Cross Season 1 Makes To James Patterson's Alex Cross Books

Although Amazon Prime Video's Cross is based on James Patterson's Alex Cross books, it brings many significant changes to the stories...

Article via Screen Rant

Top 10 best Robert Harris books ranked - and Fatherland is not No. 1

His novels span from turbulent ancient Rome to alternate histories of World War II.

Article via Daily Express

Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik review –the seductress and the sphinx

This account of the purported bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, two fascinating chroniclers of late 20th-century America...

Article via The Guardian

My ex thought my book was about him – so my publisher dropped me

Like best-selling author Coco Mellors, I too have been accused of putting a real person in a novel. But reader, don't flatter yourself

Article via iNews

Books So Good Bad They're Good: Lord Thomson Rides the Storm

Article via Daily Kos

The best books of 2024, according to the Amazon Books Editors

'The Boys of Riverside' by Thomas Fuller is named the No. 1 pick from among Amazon's wide selection of books.

Article via AboutAmazon

Cross stars explain why series doesn't adapt James Patterson's books

Aldis Hodge and Isaiah Mustafa spoke exclusively with RadioTimes.com about their new take on iconic characters Alex Cross and John Sampson.

Article via Radio Times

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A summary/intro from Mitch Albom, the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven...