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trechos-delivros · 7 months
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nicearchive · 4 months
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ebookporn · 1 year
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Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood Is a Force of Nature
The nation’s seasonal publishing and gifting tradition nourishes its unique literary culture
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by Lauren Oster
Bibliophiles the world over cherish the legend of Jólabókaflóð, Iceland’s “Christmas book flood” in which publishers release new titles in time for the holidays. As the story goes, each and every citizen of the remote, ultra-literary nation then gifts and receives books. After they unwrap presents with family and friends on December 24, they curl up with steaming cups of hot chocolate and read long into the subarctic night.
Now, Icelanders the country over don’t all partake in those rituals, but the Jólabókaflóð and the traditions it illustrates aren’t fiction, either. “As with all generalizations about nations and their traditions, there’s a grain of truth to it, but it’s not that simple,” says Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir, editor of Iceland Review, the longest-running English-language magazine focused on the country. The real story unfolds like this.
Iceland’s first literature
Since the 12th century, writers have been recording the history of Iceland. That literary history first took the form of sagas—rollicking, poetic accounts of Iceland’s earliest inhabitants and rulers that were composed centuries later by mostly unknown authors. Iceland’s initial independence—and the Icelandic Commonwealth that began when its Alþingi, or national legislature, was established in 930—ended in the late 13th century when it fell under Norwegian and eventually Danish rule. The stories its people composed and told each other of those early and relatively prosperous centuries were points of light in the darkness of the brutal colonial era that followed. The Little Ice Age, a catastrophic cooling of the North Atlantic region that caused crop failure, starvation and pandemics, and lasted for hundreds of years, decimated the population again and again. Resources were limited and scarce, and most families practiced subsistence farming in near solitude. “The very survival of this isolated people during the misery of the five centuries circa 1300-1800 has sometimes been attributed to the sustenance provided by their history, poetry and literature,” wrote sociologist and Iceland scholar Richard F. Tomasson in “The Literacy of the Icelanders,” a paper published in the journal Scandinavian Studies in 1975.
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letsmakebelieve · 9 months
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13 June
New read. So far so good.
Needed a break from the hustle culture so stopped by for a quick relaxing read and chai after work in a local Cafe.
Joys ♡
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lionmythflower · 15 days
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Remus: I am convinced Dorcas and Lily share a brain cell.
Evan: And it's not in use very often, it seems.
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readingismyhustle · 3 months
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★ What are some of your favorite sci-fi books? Share some recs for 2023! Sci-fi is my favorite book genre that I don’t read enough of. Actually it’s my favorite movie/television genre, too. Especially space operas. Omg. Give me all the space operas. 😭 And sci-fi horror. I want to feel terrified in the terror of space. I listened to Project Hail Mary last year with my husband and we really enjoyed the audio and story overall. Andy Weir has a way of making science fiction really SCIENCE without it feeling overwhelming or too far out of reach. Some of my favorite sci-fi books and series are: - Red Rising - Project Hail Mary - The Sound of Stars (COZY SCI-FI, Y’ALL) - The Murderbot Diaries - The Fifth Season (science fantasy 😍😭) - Skyward - The Raging Ones - Zero Repeat Forever - Warcross - Iron Widow - Contagion - The Dwellers & Country Sagas - The Partials Sequence - Vicious - The Testing Trilogy - The Seeds Trilogy - The Lunar Chronicles - The Illuminae Files - The Starbound Trilogy - and Jurassic Park, of course Have you read any of these? Are any on your TBR? ★ HASHTAGS // #andyweir #projecthailmary #scifibooks #sciencefiction #favoritebooks #bookrecommendations #bookstagram #booknerd #booknook #myfavoritethings #readersgonnaread #nerdthings #bookshelves #coverlove #bookseverywhere #bibliophiles https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnk8Qc8PDfM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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saber-of-dreams · 1 year
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Somehow finally managed to wear out my 7 month old Siberian. She crashed in front of my books and it was such a cute pic I had to share. She is currently in the middle of a dream, paws twitching and all.
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unrighteousbooks · 1 year
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Those who might be tempted to visit our shop would do well to examine previous editions of the Catalog of Unavailable Books. These catalogs may be downloaded below.
Aziraphale's Catalog of Unavailable Books: Vol. 1
Aziraphale's Catalog of Unavailable Books: Vol. 2
Aziraphale's Catalog of Unavailable Books: Vol. 3
Aziraphale's Catalog of Unavailable Books: Vol. 4
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booksapien · 11 months
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What books would you love to see adapted into film/tv series? 😍🍂📚 . We are still hanging on to hope that the A Chorus of Dragons series will make it to tv one day. 😩 The series was optioned back when book 1, The Ruin of Kings, was just coming out so our hopes are kinda slim, but no matter, we can still DREAM. 🤨🤎 . Oh but did you see that Shadow and Bone season 2 is coming out early next year? March 16th truly cannot come soon enough because we can’t wait to see the Crows again. They are our faves. 🤎 . (Side note: this song reminds me too much of Kaz/Crooked Kingdom.) . . #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookwormlife #bookishgirl #bibliophiles #bookflatlay #booksta #bookstagramming https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl7BJBav-Fi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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trechos-delivros · 5 months
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“Quando nossos genes não conseguiam armazenar todas as informações necessárias para a sobrevivência, nós os inventamos lentamente. Mas então chegou o momento, talvez há dez mil anos, em que precisávamos saber mais do que poderia ser convenientemente contido no cérebro. Então aprendemos a armazenar enormes quantidades de informações fora de nossos corpos. Somos a única espécie no planeta, até onde sabemos, que inventou uma forma de memória comunitária que armazena além dos nossos genes. O armazém dessa memória é chamado de biblioteca. Um livro é feito de uma árvore. Basta olhar para ele e você ouvirá a voz de outra pessoa, talvez alguém morto há milhares de anos. Ao longo dos milênios, o autor está falando, clara e silenciosamente, dentro da sua cabeça, diretamente para você. A escrita é talvez a maior das invenções humanas, unindo pessoas, cidadãos de épocas distantes que nunca se conheceram. Os livros quebram as algemas do tempo, prova de que os humanos podem fazer magia.”
Carl Sagan
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nicearchive · 5 months
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ebookporn · 1 year
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Meet the archive moles
There’s a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I’m one of them
by Lucy Scholes
“The Virago Modern Classics are not finished, and never will be,” Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press, wrote in the Guardian in 2008. “They remain as a testament to a group of very energetic, devoted young women, to bad typewriters, often illegible handwriting, and long hours of deeply non-unionised work, reading and research.” Like many bookworms, I’ve long considered the instantly recognisable green spines of the imprint as a stamp of excellence. Over the years, they’ve been my gateway to many authors whose books I now count among my favourites.
As Callil points out, though, achieving this sort of reputation takes a lot of hard work, and I’m beginning to learn this first-hand. Four years ago, I began writing “Re-Covered”, a monthly column for the Paris Review website about books that are out of print or forgotten but that shouldn’t be. And two years ago I started work as an editor at McNally Editions, the publishing imprint of the New York City-based independent bookstore chain McNally Jackson. We launched early last year and like to describe the books that we publish as hidden gems; titles that are not widely known but have stood the test of time, remaining as singular and engaging as when they were first written.
Those “long hours” of reading and research that Callil describes dominate my working life. I’m clinically incapable of passing a second-hand bookshop—or a charity shop with a single shelf of sad-looking, dog-eared paperbacks—without diving in for a quick scan of the spines. “How do you know what you’re looking for?” someone asked me recently. Certain, now-long-defunct imprints, those I’ve come to associate with a particular quality of writing, or an editor whose taste was second to none. An author’s name that doesn’t ring a bell. Or one that does. Elizabeth Mavor, for example, whose enchanting, eccentric fourth novel, A Green Equinox—the story of an antiquarian book dealer named Hero Kinoull, who first falls in love with her married lover’s wife, and then his mother—was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1973 but had been long out of print by the time I gleefully found a copy. I’d been looking for a while, especially as the handful for sale online were priced at three figures. (Incidentally, if your interest is piqued but your pockets aren’t deep, don’t despair. McNally Editions is re-issuing it later this year.)
Most of the time, my work feels more like that of a detective than an editor. Falling down endless online rabbit holes is an occupational hazard. I read old reviews in digitised newspaper archives, and trawl obituaries, looking for interesting titbits. Internet Archive—the non-profit digital library that houses millions of books—is an indispensable resource, not least because so many of the titles it holds can’t be easily found IRL. But none of this would work without access to various bricks-and-mortar collections, especially the London Library. You’ll find me in the stacks, rootling out books that—as revealed by the stampings inside—no one’s read since the 1980s, or earlier.
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acelessthan3 · 1 year
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Book nerds, bibliophiles, former-English majors
Any of you have vanity shelves? Shelves of honor? Where go all the Important Books with high sentimental value for being formative or read at a special time in your life?
Show them off and explain them in the tags, I'm so curious.
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lionmythflower · 15 days
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Dorcas: Which country has the most birds?
Dorcas: Portu-geese!
Evan: That's a language.
Dorcas: Portu-gull? Evan: Good recovery.
Lily: I think you mean good re-dovery.
Remus: TURKEY. HOW DID WE MISS TURKEY?
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