All have become hugely important to me and I’m so glad I had them in my life last year. What are your favourite books that you read in 2024? I’d love to know. Share this: Twitter Facebook Tumblr Pinterest More Loading... Posted in Books / Tagged best-books, Books, favourite...
20 books everyone should read in their 40sTalia Lakritz
In 2023 and 2024, Cardinal Media published three series of “Perfect Picture Books“. They encourage us to “Read and enjoy Chinese stories in English! Beautifully written and lovingly illustrated by some of China’s favorite authors and illustrators, these stories have traveled across the world a...
which stands for the Society of Cutting Up Men – and this manifesto aims to overthrow the government and eliminate men. So yeah, this looks like a fun read for fellas, but actually it is, and not in a right-on ‘Hey I’m a Feminist, you should screw me’ way. It’s whip-smart,...
This transformation of the river of time into a poetic love letter to Taiwan received the 2023 Good Books for Everyone to Read Award as the Best Children’s Book. [LO] Be your own protagonist: Zuo ziji de zhujiao 做自己的主教, by Isatisse (Tong, Yan Lok Isabel) (text/illus.) (Hong...
(which happens unintentionally more than we think!), and essentially, “winning” people to your viewpoints and ideas. While it can sound a little disingenuous in its description, these are truly skills that people use every day, and this book is a great resource for boning up your social ...
Modeling her work after the 52-week calendar, Swaby designed a book that would allow readers to read about a different woman who’s innovated in science each week. With brief profiles of each woman, the book spans various scientific fields, including space, chemistry, genetics, and physics. ...
I would be lying to say I enjoyedWilding Graft’sregional and rather stilted plot. Rather, I read it as a unique accomplishment by a disadvantaged author who saw life through a Biblical lens of hope. In 1981, at 65, Clemo received an honorary literary doctorate from the University of Exete...
He was a prominent SF fan from the mid ’40s to early ’50s, publishing the fanzineVampire, and co-founding an APA, theSpectator Amateur Press Association,that is (according to Wikipedia) still active. He also sold two stories to prozines in 1951 —“No More Pencils, No More Books” (...
Your novel,Ponti, is set in Singapore. It’s a really nice book to read if you’re travelling to Singapore, to get a feel for what it’s like there.Pontiwas shortlisted for a travel-writing award forfiction ‘with a sense of place’ and it’s had some very nice comments from the ...