Last time I asked for #recommendation the results were amazing so here goes another: looking for chapter books for 5-8yo kiddos!
My kid doesn’t read yet but we certainly have a good time when I read them out loud. So far we’ve read the following:
Roald Dahl: Witches, James and the Giant Peach (ongoing), and Charlie and the Choco Factory (lined up)
Harry Potter’s Year One: we have two and three but I’m leaving those for later. Probably after she turns 8 or so (she’s 5 now)
The Little Prince
Genre-wise, we’ve read #Fiction and #Fantasy but anything different would also be great. I’m up for anything that could continue to nurture interest in reading, empathy, wonder, and a good moral compass.
Born 106 years ago this month, Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential & widely read 20th century poets. With over 20 published books, she earned immense respect during her lifetime. For 32 years, she was the poet laureate of IL. She was the FIRST Black poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the FIRST Black woman named as the Library of Congress’ Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
I've made at least a dozen attempts at Thomas Pynchon's World War II novel since I was eighteen, and I've never managed to get far beyond Pirate Prentice's banana breakfast.
Infinite Jest
Of course I've tried to read the novel that made David Foster Wallace famous, since it was published the year I turned eighteen and I still felt obligated to at least try to read and appreciate literary fiction in order to be "serious" about writing. I just never succeeded, most likely for the same reasons I never finished Gravity's Rainbow. It seems my patience for postmodernism is limited.
The Name of the Rose
I know how Umberto Eco's medieval mystery ends, but I don't count it as a book I've successfully read because there are dozens of passages that I just don't have enough Latin to read. It helps a little that I had seen the film adaptation first.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
I'm not sure what stopped me from finishing N. K. Jemisen's novel, or the Inheritance Trilogy of which it's the first. Maybe I got distracted, or perhaps I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters and their struggles. I should probably pick it up again and give it another shot.
The Warded Man
Once I got it into my head that Peter Brett's novel would have worked better as a shonen manga called Tattooed Devil Killer ARLEN I could no longer take the novel seriously or suspend disbelief. That the protagonist basically turned into Batman after a time skip didn't help matters.
Polychrome
Ryk E. Spoor's homage to L. Frank Baum's Oz novels would probably have had more appeal for me if I had actually read Baum's novels as a kid instead of simply watching the film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz when it ran on TV between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Apparently Baum's setting got a lot weirder after Wizard. Spoor's novel assumed prior knowledge of the setting and characters that I lacked and couldn't be bothered to acquire.
Drood
I liked Dan Simmons better when he wrote science fiction. I was also going to say that I liked him better before he became a raving bigot writing unhinged rants about the evils of Islam, but the seeds of that bigotry were latent in the 1980s when he wrote Hyperion. It doesn't help that Drood requires knowledge of Charles Dickens' life and work, particularly his unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. I could acquire it, but I was never a fan of Charles Dickens' and I can't be bothered to read his work just so I can make sense of this one novel by Dan Simmons.
The Elfstones of Shannara
I had been told by a few dozen Terry Brooks fans on r/fantasy that Elfstones was a better novel than his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, but the magic just wasn't there for me. Maybe if I head read Elfstones first, and as a child instead of an adult
Byzantium Endures
This is the first of Michael Moorcock's novels of Colonel Pyat, and I've been slogging through it for five years, reading a little more at a time. This isn't a failure on Moorcock's part, but a triumph of characterization. Pyat's dishonesty is the least of his repugnant qualities, and I can only take so much of him at a time. I'm only halfway through Byzantium Endures, and there are three more Pyat novels after that.
I don't think I'll get through them all in my lifetime unless I'm already in so cynical and misanthropic a mood that Pyat's racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, and misogyny somehow buoy me instead of bringing me down.
If there are books you haven't finished despite a valiant effort, why not blog about them and email me a link? I'm curious.
Fun fact: if you're looking for space opera novels written by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors, I've got a handy spreadsheet just for you!
I've maintained this list for several years, and it's still growing! #sciencefiction#books
"The Lost Future of Pepperharrow" features a young autistic girl, a character who's made all the more interesting by the time period the novel is set in. She was also in "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street", but has a more substantial role in this book.
"The Lost Future of Pepperharrow" features a young autistic girl named Six, a character who's made all the more interesting by the time period the novel is set in. She was also in "The Watchmaker of Filigree Street", but has a more substantial role in this book.
"I filosofi hanno il torto di non pensare alle bestie e davanti agli occhi di una bestia crolla come un castello di carte qualunque sistema filosofico."
Luigi Pirandello was born #OTD in 1867. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." via @Wikipedia
Well, it's official: I'm open to editing books! Please spread the word!
I have worked as an editor for 2+ years at a small publisher, and I have 3+ years of editorial experience with literary journals. Feel free to DM me, and I'm also really flexible with pricing!
The signal from another galaxy received by scientists in a stream of neutrino particles is a seed for Lem's considerations on humans and their place in the universe. But who sent it and why?
The book is full of metaphors, hidden meanings, and comparisons, such as the English title itself, referring to a well-known British record label. Following this musical path, we can also find an allegory of life as a groove on a vinyl record, from which it is not easy to escape, and sometimes all we can do is wait for the needle to finish its run. Hence the graphic design on the back cover.
Książhttps://pixelfed.social/%C5%BCkapełna jest metafor, ukrytych znaczeń i porównań jak choćby już sam angielski tytuł, nawiązujący do znanej brytyjskiej wytwórni fonograficznej.
Idąc dalej tym muzycznym tropem znajdziemy też alegorię żhttps://pixelfed.social/%C5%BCyciajako rowka na winylowej płycie, z toru którego uciec nie jest łatwo, a czasem jedyne na co nas stać to czekanie, aż igła sama skończy swój bieg. Stąd też nieprzypadkowa grafika na tylnej okładce.
Hi! I'm moving instances so I thought I would do a quick #introduction.
I'm Michael. I love staring at #birds, animals, and trees and stuff. I play way too many #boardgames and #videogames. I read #Books from time to time. I plan on sharing my thoughts on all these subjects in the days to come.
"Nothing is more certain than that worlds on worlds, and spheres on spheres, stretch behind and beyond the actually seen."
Edward Carpenter died #OTD in 1929. He was an early activist for gay rights and prison reform. As a philosopher, he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, where he described civilisation as a form of disease through which human societies pass. @Wikipedia
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The signal from another galaxy received by scientists in a stream of neutrino particles is a seed for Lem's considerations on humans and their place in the universe. But who sent it and why?
The book is full of metaphors, hidden meanings, and comparisons, such as the English title itself, referring to a well-known British record label. Following this musical path, we can also find an allegory of life as a groove on a vinyl record, from which it is not easy to escape, and sometimes all we can do is wait for the needle to finish its run. Hence the graphic design on the back cover.
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Sygnał z innej galaktyki odebrany przez naukowców w strumieniu neutrinowych cząstek to zalążek do rozważań Lema na temat człowieka i jego miejsca we wszechświecie.
Ale kto go wysłał i po co?
Książka pełna jest metafor, ukrytych znaczeń i porównań jak choćby już sam angielski tytuł, nawiązujący do znanej brytyjskiej wytwórni fonograficznej.
Idąc dalej tym muzycznym tropem znajdziemy też alegorię życia jako rowka na winylowej płycie, z toru którego uciec nie jest łatwo, a czasem jedyne na co nas stać to czekanie, aż igła sama skończy swój bieg. Stąd też nieprzypadkowa grafika na tylnej okładce.
I just finished "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" by #GabriellZevin and it's easily one of my favourite books. The story has an amazing flow, the characters are memorable and easy to imagine and it's set in the world of #VideoGames.
Once #MetalGearSolid was mentioned, I was totally immersed, spent a significant amount of time playing that game and it's still on of my favourites!
Also it has one of the best and trippiest hard covers 😍
By the 21st #century, it became clear that the human race is not only not smart enough, but also #selfish enough not to take advantage of the opportunities provided by #science and #destroy the planet Earth. Humans wrote this down in science fiction #books a long time ago. It all become a #reality now...
Book bans have now escalated to threats to defund public libraries and jail teachers and librarians who make "explicit" content available to children. Vox journalist Fabiola Cineas talked to Cody Croan, legislative committee chair of the Missouri Libraries Association, and Kasey Meehan of PEN America, about what this means for American democracy.