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Bookcrossing.com. The Online Literature Library. The Good Reading Guide: book reviews of the best books. Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Great Literature for Download. OnRead.com - instant free e-book download. Read books online via this free e-book library. Become a literary critic and write your own review to any book. The world's most difficult books: how many have you read? 'Fantastically convoluted' … Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

The world's most difficult books: how many have you read?

Photograph: Oscar White/Corbis Two and a half. I have read two and a half of the 10 most difficult books ever written, as selected by Emily Colette Wilkinson and Garth Risk Hallberg of the Millions after three years' research. Voynich manuscript. The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system.

Voynich manuscript

The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance.[1][2] The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912.[3] Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. Blookist - We are changing the blogosphere! Allen Ginsberg's "Beat Literary History Course" Book reviews: Find the best new books. {*style:<ul>*} {*style:<li>*} {*style:<br>*}{*style:<b>*}Harry's Trees{*style:</b>*}{*style:<br>*} by Jon Cohen{*style:<br>*}What a dazzlingly yet wonderful cast of characters we meet in Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen.

The one thing united them is grief and loss. A widow loses her husband to a ... {*style:<br>*} {*style:<a href=' more{*style:</a>*} {*style:</li>*} {*style:<li>*} {*style:<br>*}{*style:<b>*}Don't Look Back: An Inspector Sejer Mystery{*style:</b>*}{*style:<br>*} by Karin Fossum{*style:<br>*}A friend recommended this mystery to me and said she had just discovered Norwegian author Karin Fossum. This book is in a series of Inspector Sejer mysteries. Wallace Stevens Euro Lit Syllabus. Secret self-help - bookforum.com / syllabi. Feb 3 2010.

secret self-help - bookforum.com / syllabi

Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review. Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today.

Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review

It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone whom I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder, with something more than mere curiosity, what Barthelme would have made of the past twenty-odd years. These are decades I feel we’ve processed less acutely because he wasn’t there to fictionalize them: their surreal political flareups, their new technologies, their various zeitgeists and intellectual fads and dumb advertisements.

Part of what I love about Barthelme’s stories is the way they traffic in cultural commentary without losing their intimacy, their humanity. But I’m losing the thread. My point is not to reveal a secret wish that Barthelme was my uncle. I wanted to say something about lists. A zombie advances toward a group of thin blooming daughters and describes, with many motions of his hands and arms, the breakfasts they may expect in a zombie home. ‘Why I Read,’ by Wendy Lesser. Reading Matters. Late last night London time the longlist for Australia's top literary prize, the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award, was announced.

Reading Matters

It's quite a strong list, although I'm shocked that it doesn't include Christos Tsiolkas' Barracuda and Alex Miller's Coal Creek, but I do like the fact it features some new authors that I've not heard of before. Still, I think when push comes to shove, it's going to be a big battle between two old favourites: Tim Winton and Richard Flanagan.

Only time will tell. In the meantime, I've taken a leaf out of Trevor's book (who did something similar for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and listed all the longlisted titles here with a cover image, brief synopis and a round-up of reviews by bloggers. I hope it proves useful — I know it has certainly added to my ever-growing wishlist! The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr (Available in the UK as a Kindle edition) "This is the story of Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers. It’s an interesting relationship that book lovers have with the Internet: most would rather read a physical book than something on an iPad or Kindle, and even though an Amazon purchase is just two or three clicks away, dedicated readers would rather take a trip to their local indie bookstore.

The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers

Yet the literary world occupies a decent-sized space on the web. Readers, writers, publishers, editors, and everybody in between are tweeting, Tumbling, blogging, and probably even Vine-ing about their favorite books. In case the demise of Google Reader threw your literary Internet browsing into a dark void, here’s a list of 25 book sites to bookmark. The Millions. Directory of Online Literary Journals. A resource for readers and writers alike, the Review 31 Directory is a listing of English-language online literary journals.

Directory of Online Literary Journals

This listing also includes some print journals that offer significant online content. www.3ammagazine.com Founded: 2000, Paris Reviews, essays, interviews, fiction. Edited by Andrew Gallix. Keeping Track of Reading Habits With a ‘Book of Books’ Rare Book Room. 12 Months of Reading. BibliOdyssey. Thirsty: A Biblioasis Miscellany.

BOOKTRYST. Shelf Awareness. The Lisa Simpson Book Club. Book Recommendations (USA) All My Books - Book Inventory Software, Ebook Collection Manager, Book Database Program. British Museum's Wheel of Books Attracts Gawkers. BookBrowse.com: More than 20,000 book reviews, reader reviews, c. 100 Awesome Open Courses for Bibliophiles. Book lovers and collectors don’t have to stop learning after they graduate college.

100 Awesome Open Courses for Bibliophiles

There are loads of free courses to take online that will supply you with reading lists, information about the history of books and manuscripts, linguistics, foreign literature, ancient texts and more. Here are 100 awesome open courses for bibliophiles. Literature Take these courses to explore great writers, compare styles, and learn about the writing tradition. Introduction to Fiction: Compare narrative styles of Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad. Foreign Literature Learn how different cultures produce different literary traditions, from China to Latin America and beyond. Spanish Poetry: This crash course in Spanish poetry is actually a video seminar. Linguistics. Fairy Tales Collection.com. Librarian Chick / FrontPage. BookMooch: trade your books with other people. Internet Sacred Text Archive Home.

Best Books Ever Listings (Bookshelf) From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks. Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo (2002) In 2002, the editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature. This list was reprinted in The Guardian in 2002. Here's the list. © signifies original publication still copyrighted in the U.S. The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online - io9. Top 10 Underrated Fantasy Stories Before 1937. Books J.R.R.

Top 10 Underrated Fantasy Stories Before 1937

Tolkien changed the face of the fantasy genre when he published “The Hobbit” in 1937 and subsequently his famous “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But with this defining moment in the genre, many of the great works that preceded Tolkien have been forgotten in time. Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman. Signs You're Addicted to Reading. 18 Ephemeral Tattoos For Booklovers. We all love a good literary tattoo, the ultimate outward expression of someone’s love for the written word.

18 Ephemeral Tattoos For Booklovers

It’s fascinating to see which quotes have spoken so deeply to people that they’ve had them indelibly printed on their own skin. And let’s be honest -- who thought book nerds could be so edgy? Not all of us bookworms, however, possess the level of decisiveness needed to join our lives with one literary tattoo for life. The more commitment-phobic among us need not despair -- we can still wear our bookishness as a sleeve if we wish. Why Readers, Scientifically, Are The Best People To Fall In Love With. Ever finished a book? I mean, truly finished one? Cover to cover. Closed the spine with that slow awakening that comes with reentering consciousness? You take a breath, deep from the bottom of your lungs and sit there. 66 Facts You May Not Have Known About The English Language 

The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope — it’s an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness — it’s just one fantastic mishmash of borrowings, inventions, corruptions, misinterpretations, misspellings, alterations, words you’ll never need, and words you never even knew you’ll never need. Since December 2013, @HaggardHawks has been trying to prove precisely this by tweeting odd words, word origins and language facts everyday. 1,300 tweets later, it turns six months old this week and so to celebrate, here are 66 random facts from our first semester that hopefully go some way towards showing how great — and how downright bizarre — the English language can be. 1. 2.

31 Beautiful Ideas For A Book-Inspired Wedding. "Life-Changing Books". We asked our readers what books made the biggest difference in their lives, and here’s what they had to say. The list below tells you what books shaped their lives and why. What Books Do Writers Teach?: Zadie Smith and Gary Shteyngart’s Syllabi from Columbia University. Many, if not, most writers teach—whether literature, composition, or creative writing—and examining what those writers teach is an especially interesting exercise because it gives us insight not only into what they read, but also what they read closely and carefully, again and again, in order to inform their own work and demonstrate the craft as they know it to students.

W. Auden's English 135 Suggested Reading. Welcome to World of Books.com. Most Interesting Libraries of the World. The Royal library Black Diamond at the waterfront of Copenhagen owes its name to the black granite from Zimbabwe used for the facade of the building. The name was used by the public first and has been adapted officially later. Design by the Danish architects Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen. The Great Geek Manual » The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries. I make no secret of the fact that I’m a hardcore bibliophile, but we’re a common enough lot these day.

The Books That Changed Your Lives. How to be Well-read in No Time: 40 Short Novels. 101 Books To Read This Summer Instead of '50 Shades of Grey' Top Fantasy Books and Series : Sword Blog. The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources. 10 Book Series So Addictive, You Never Want Them to End.

How to Fit Reading Into Your Schedule and Actually Finish the Books You Want to Read. » 20 Amazing and Essential Non-fiction Books to Enrich Your Library. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. I’m an avid reader of fiction and just love a novel that transports me, that is so gripping that I can’t put it down. But I also enjoy a good non-fiction book, from self-help stuff to philosophy to biographies to just about anything that makes me think. The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. 75 Books Every Writer Should Read. Whether you want to make writing your career or just want to know how to improve your writing so that you can pass your college courses, there is plenty of reading material out there to help you get inspired and hone your skills.

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels. Biblio.com. HathiTrust Digital Library. 100 Good Books to Read: Book Recommendations by Topic. Use Whichbook My Lists to store any books you come across that you might want to find again. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on Their Decision Not To Have Kids by Meghan Daum. Literature gifts for book lovers, readers and writers – Literary Emporium. Bookshelf Porn- not what you think it is. Welcome to Open Library. Darwin Online. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Library of Alexandria. Litfy - All the free e-books you can muster. Catalog your books online. Dewey Decimal classes. The Art of the Book. Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming.

It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things. Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade.

: Archive. The Feminist Summer Reading List. A new way of choosing what to read next. Create a Searchable Catalog of Your Bookshelf by Snapping a Picture into Evernote. NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books. How to Really Own Your Books. How books work. Lists of Great Book Recommendations from Flashlight Worthy. Download free ebooks at bookboon.com.

A List of The Essential Man's Library: 100 Must-Read Books - Art of Manliness. 10 Ways Reading the Great Books Can Improve Your Life. Catalog your books online. 20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Book Lists. 30 Days, 30 Ways to Improve Your Relationship. 20 Cool Home Library Design Ideas. Bookshelf. A Visual Alphabet-Dictionary of Unusual Words.