Recommendations of books old and new
This is one of those books that I find myself wanting to recommend to everyone. It’s an unusual book, and it’s full of the charm and gentle humour that is so characteristic of the English. This is a book about books, but unlike most books of this genre which tend to be non-fiction, it is …
Not just on bestseller lists, award shortlists and some expert's idea of books you should read before you die. There are books that were well-known and widely read at the time that they were published, but are mostly forgotten today because they didn't earn the distinction of being classics. Or they are books that, regardless …
The world’s first e-book was created on July 4th, 1971, when Michael S Hart, typed the American Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer at the University of Illinois and sent it off to about a hundred users via ARPANAET, the precursor to the Internet. Hart wanted to make literature “as free as the air …
When I read a book that I like, I want to tell people about it. I want to share the things I enjoyed, the parts that made me think, the things that moved me and things that I will take away from the book. When I read a book that I love, I want to …
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