#world book far

[bloseroseone]

Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival 22th-23rd March 2024

Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival When – March 22th – March 23rd Where – visit their website for more information (https://venicebookfair.com/)

Venice, a city that rises from the lapping waters of the Veneto region in northeastern Italy, is a wonder to behold. Its 117 small islands, connected by a network of captivating canals, are home to historic buildings, bustling shops, and delectable restaurants that all reflect the city’s rich history. 

Venice once basked in the golden age of the Renaissance as a major trading center and a hub of artistic and cultural production. Today, the city remains a monument to beauty with its timeless landmarks, such as the magnificent St. Mark’s Square, the stately Doge’s Palace, and the stunning Rialto Bridge. 

And let us not forget the graceful gondolas that glide through the waterways, offering a one-of-a-kind adventure for visitors.

Venice has long served as a muse for poets, novelists, and playwrights. Its unique place at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East has captivated writers for centuries, who have used the city’s rich history, serpentine waterways, and diverse population as inspiration for their works. 

The city has also housed literary greats, such as Francesco Petrarca, who co-founded the Renaissance humanist movement, and Giorgio Baffo, who chronicled the city’s lively customs in the 18th century. 

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Venice was a hub for artistic and literary salons, where writers, artists, and intellectuals from all corners of Europe gathered to exchange ideas and create.

Today, the Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival continues this legacy of literary richness, uniting storytellers and book lovers from around the world to celebrate the magic of the written word...Continue reading

#book #world book far #book fair #book author #book writer #book publishing #book publishing platforms #self publishing #book writing #self publishing platforms

[chidoroki]

"Unstoppable" by Donna Ashworth

#the promised neverland #tpn manga #tpn emma #tpn ray #rayemma #emma #ray #my edits #happy november 13th aka the day the kiddos crossed over to the human world and our fearless protagonist achieved her goal. #im so proud of her..& i didnt mean for this to turn into something so RE relatable but it just fits ya know? ray's been by her side the #entire journey so of course he would witness all her ups & downs. i dunno if he would indulge in poetry however but with all the #books in the GF & bunker library im sure he's at least come across his far share of poems over the years. so yeah. i sorta imagined him #writing all this down and sketching out his memories alongside it all. hopefully the panels convey that kind of look. who knows.

[lucimiir]

I don’t know guys I was told Dune Messiah would be boring but so far I’m having a BLAST. Teenage Alia is iconic, half the scenes are Chani and Irulan snipping at each other while Alia chills and instigates. There’s a pompous fishman floating in orange liquid and a resurrected hot guy who’s there to seduce people apparently. Paul is just moping in a corner. This is great.

#also the tragedy of a world after ten years of warfare is heartbreaking and I think this book is so far achieving everything it #set out to do #as far as the commentary on fanaticism goes #so that’s all good too #I’m like a fifth of the way through #dune #dune messiah #paul atreides #paul muad'dib #alia atreides #irulan corrino #chani kynes #duncan idaho #frank herbert

[samglyph]

Im currently reading Under the Whispering Door and I’m starting to think that TJ Klune may have just had an office job that he fucking hated

#both books so far have been like look at what the corporate world has wrought upon these men #under the whispering door #the house in the cerulean sea #sam reads

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

#our experiences are very different lmao #pjo show crit #sure the show isn't completely out yet #but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4) #and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad #but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao #the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy #but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence #but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there #I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother #... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book #which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible #its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application #she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd! #I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke #actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao #and then grover #by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least #in the show?? not so much #and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth #like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right! #and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa #but his highlights there were cut completely in the show #and finally sally #...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson #percy jackson #mine

[hedgehog-moss]

Inspired by your last ask! What are the best French books you’ve read that have no English translation yet? I read Play Boy and Qui a tué mon père (really loved the latter) last year and it feels so fun to read something that other Americans can’t access yet

I'm too nervous to make any list of the Best XYZ Books because I don't want to raise your expectations too high! But okay, here's my No English Translation-themed list of books I've enjoyed in recent years. I tried to make it eclectic in terms of genre as I don't know what you prefer :)

Biographies

• Le dernier inventeur, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen: I just love prehistory and unusual narrators so I enjoyed this one; it's about the kids who discovered the cave of Lascaux, and some of the narration is written from the perspective of the cave <3 I posted a little excerpt here (in English).

• Ces femmes du Grand Siècle, Juliette Benzoni: Just a fun collection of portraits of notable noblewomen during the reign of Louis XIV, I really liked it. For people who like the 17th century. I think it was Emil Cioran who said his favourite historical periods were the Stone Age and the 17th century but tragically the age of salons led to the Reign of Terror and Prehistory led to History.

• La Comtesse Greffulhe, Laure Hillerin: I've mentioned this one before, it's about the fascinating Belle Époque French socialite who was (among other things) the inspiration for Proust's Duchess of Guermantes. I initially picked it up because I will read anything that's even vaguely about Proust but it was also a nice aperçu of the Belle Époque which I didn't know much about.

• Nous les filles, Marie Rouanet: I've also recommended this one before but it's such a sweet little viennoiserie of a book. The author talks about her 1950s childhood in a town in the South of France in the most detailed, colourful, earnest way—she mentions everything, describes all the daft little games children invent like she wants ageless aliens to grasp the concept of human childhood, it's great.

I'll add Trésors d'enfance by Christian SIgnol and La Maison by Madeleine Chapsal which are slightly less great but also sweet short nostalgic books about childhood that I enjoyed.

Fantasy

• Mers mortes, Aurélie Wellenstein: I read this one last year and I found the characters a bit underwhelming / underexplored but I always enjoy SFF books that do interesting things with oceans (like Solaris with its sentient ocean-planet), so I liked the atmosphere here, with the characters trying to navigate a ghost ship in ghost seas...

• Janua Vera, Jean-Philippe Jaworski: Not much to say about it other than they're short stories set in a mediaeval fantasy world and no part of this description is usually my cup of tea, but I really enjoyed this read!

Essays / literary criticism / philosophy

• Eloge du temps perdu, Frank Lanot: I thought this was going to be about idleness, as the title suggests, and I love books about idleness. But it's actually a collection of short essays about (French) literature and some of them made me appreciate new things about authors and books I thought I knew by heart, so I enjoyed it

• Le Pont flottant des rêves, Corinne Atlan: Poetic musings about translation <3 that's all

• Sisyphe est une femme, Geneviève Brisac: Reflections about the works of female writers (Natalia Ginzburg, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, etc) that systematically made me want to go read the author in question, even when I'd already read & disliked said author. That's how you know it's good literary criticism

Let's add L'Esprit de solitude by Jacqueline Kelen which as the title suggests, ponders the notion of solitude, and Le Roman du monde by Henri Peña-Ruiz which was so lovely to read in terms of literary style I don't even care what it was about (it's philosophy of foundational myths & stories) (probably difficult to read if you're not fully fluent in French though)

Did not fit in the above categories:

• Entre deux mondes by Olivier Norek—it's been translated in half a dozen languages, I was surprised to find no English translation! It's a crime novel and a pretty bleak read on account of the setting (the Calais migrant camp) but I'd recommend it

• Saga, Tonino Benacquista: Also seems to have been translated in a whole bunch of languages but not English? :( I read it ages ago but I remember it as a really fun read. It's a group of loser screenwriters who get hired to write a TV series, their budget is 15 francs and a stale croissant and it's going to air at 4am so they can do whatever they want seeing as no one will watch it. So they start writing this intentionally ridiculous unhinged show, and of course it acquires Devoted Fans

Books that I didn't think existed in English translation but they do! but you can still read them in French if you want

• Scrabble: A Chadian Childhood, Michaël Ferrier: What it says on the tin! It's a short and well-written account of the author's childhood in Chad just before the civil war. I read it a few days ago and it was a good read, but then again I just love bittersweet stories of childhood

• On the Line, Joseph Ponthus: A short diary-like account of the author's assembly line work in a fish factory. I liked the contrast between the robotic aspect of the job and the poetic nature of the text; how the author used free verse / repetition / scansion to give a very immediate sense of the monotony and rhythm of his work (I don't know if it's good in English)

• The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis: The memoir of a gay man growing up in a poor industrial town in Northern France—pretty brutal but really good

• And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran: Yet another memoir sorry, I love people's lives! Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight as a child, and was in the Resistance during WWII despite being blind. It's a great story, both for the historical aspects and for the descriptions of how the author experiences his blindness

• The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception, Emmanuel Carrère: an account of the Jean-Claude Romand case—a French man who murdered his whole family to avoid being discovered as a fraud, after spending his entire adult life pretending to be a doctor working at the WHO and fooling everyone he knew. Just morbidly fascinating, if you like true crime stuff

#ask #book recs #the book i started reading last night is The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak and i also didn't #expect it to have an english translation but it does #i'm only at the beginning and so far it's philosophical ponderings about what kind of creature the neanderthals were #if they were humans in a different way than us. with a different kind of intelligence #and how to understand it without projecting our own way of being in the world onto this other humanity #sorry to quote cioran again but it reminds me of when he said every generation misses the good old days and #if we retrace our steps from regret to regret we'll find the original regret #our nostalgia for a time when humans weren't yet human

[garlikstiks]

i just finished tsc and the scene that is sticking with me the most is when coach whistles at jean when he does something the wrong raven way. the way that it’s sooooo subconscious. these are FUNDAMENTALS. facts of life. you throw using this motion, give-and-gos look like that, if you’re standing near a mark you stand to trip them up. i’m going to throw up

#the sunshine court #tsc #aftg #jean moreau #like yeah don’t get me started on handing his stick over for contrition #but even these LITTLE things to help show how far jean and the ravens are from the real world #sometimes i feel like i come into this fandom and im just the one who plays too many sports #but nora!! #loved the book #and LOVED getting to to see more insites about the little details of the game #very excited to keep on learning

[salsa-di-pomodoro]

Ok but can we talk about the absolute horror of being watched and monitored 24/7 that the ancients must have had. The citizenship drones being like an Alexa that's constantly following and listening to you (except it's five pebbles and not Alexa lmao). The fucking OVERSEERS. THEY'RE CALLED THAT FOR A REASON. BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THEIR CITIZENS AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENT ALL THE TIME. (I would talk about the fact that they all show arti fucking ads as well but honestly idk what else to say about that. Capitalism got yet another society 😔). That's some fucking nightmare fuel dystopian society settings we are being hinted at. You know the Big Brother Is Watching You thing. The book. Yeah that's what it reminds me of.

The Iterator Is Watching You.

#imagine not being able to escape being watched any second of your life #imagine being one of the first ancients who saw an iterator come into being #imagine being one of the first ancients who had to go live on top of them #imagine being one of the first amcients to be constantly scrutinized by the overseers #i bet they knew this wasn't really a good thing #no matter how religious they were. by the time of pebbles though they were far too religiously indoctrinated to realize this was bad #(as a society i mean. theres always some who disagree and figure out what's going on) #disclaimer i have never read the book i am talking about and only know it through references and pop culture. still tho yk what i mean #rain world #rainworld #rain world iterator #rw iterator #iterator #rw five pebbles #five pebbles #im tagging him too even tho hes only mentioned i wanna reach more ppl with this #pls i may not have said everything i wanted to say cause i cant get my thoughts straight rn but i want to hear what yall think about this #agh the whole situation is so fucked imagine being the Big Brother in this and not even having a choice in it. #imagine that everyone with critical thinking knows this and cant do anything about it. #not even mentioning the cataclysmic level rain the iterators brought. like dude who thought this was a good idea. #imagine all this + the end of the world and its ecosystem as you know it happening right before your eyes #and you cant even blame the person at fault that much bc they were literally fucking born into this #rw overseer #forgot this one #rw ancients

[thekenobee]

Choose Your Fighter 💌

#aubreyad #Jack aubrey #Stephen maturin #killick #age of sail #aubrey/maturin #aubrey maturin #patrick o'brian #Patrick obrian #books #master and commander the far side of the world #master and commander #Tom pullings #valentine's 2023 #aubreyad valentines cards #thekenobeeedit #my edit #happy valentine's day #aubreyad Valentine’s Day cards #Russell crowe #Paul bettany

[eerna]

I have come to the conclusion that I am not interested in AtLA spinoffs, but I love prequels. The comics, the next avatar, the adult Gaang story, none of them interest me enough to interact with them, but I am living for every detail the novels reveal. Like what do you MEAN the Fire Lord has a bastard half-brother scheming for power TELL ME MOREEEE

#i wasnt gonna read the yangchen books bc they aren't very liked but tbh the worldbuilding details are my fav thing abt the books anyway #it's good that the novels skip avatars too. it is such a good formula. you meet the old crew you meet the current crew and the world #automatically feels bigger. the issue with introducing next avatars is that you gotta talk about the old characters #and that gets tiring or feels cheap or destroys people's expectations #meanwhile you can go as far back as you want without betraying anyone!!!! that is very cool #also full disclosure i prefer pre-modernity worldbuilding and since korra went 20th century that boat has foerever sailed. however prequels #still got it baby!!! #atla liveblog #tkn liveblog

[sapphorror]

my top controversial Zim headcanon is that Zim actually performs absurdly well at skool because

1. he's a perfectionist with a compulsive reaction to ANY system of scoring

2. I 100% believe test scores are this guy's forte because he had to become an Invader SOMEHOW and he sure as hell wasn't passing based on the practical

3. He has hyper-advanced alien AI to do his homework for him. like come on.

meanwhile Dib is really only scraping by on raw intelligence and the inherent educational advantage of having a mad scientist father. He doesn't have TIME to study, there's an evil alien he has to stalk and besides, you know what's better than a high school diploma? The Nobel Peace Prize for proving the existence of extraterrestrial life.

#invader zim #zim #dib #zadp #iz posting #natterings #not actually my top controversial headcanon but i believe in working your way up to the cancelable stuff #anyway dib may or may not get more serious with it as he gets older #but at twelve years old i do not believe for a minute this kid gives a fuck about grades handed to him by stupid people #hes probably doing pretty okay at math and any sciences but i dont even want to IMAGINE how he performs on say #literature #he doesnt have time to read a whole BOOK hes trying to save the world here #though naturally if anyone pointed out to him that hey isnt it fucked up the literal alien is doing better in human subjects than you #we'd see a turn around REAL fast #that or hed just spend all his time trying to prove that zims been cheating which #yeah not likely to get him very far

[catominor]

you ever open a book and start reading and immediately think thaaaat sounds like bullshit

#i decided to start researching for this thing i want to write about beauty/personal appearance in rome (specifically wrt men) and so im #looking for basically. any writing on the topic. and this book is mostly about other periods but has a chapter on the ancient world #but the way he writes about it so far is so generalizing and also based on... nothing/assumptions? from what i can tell? #this is just the intro so ill see what evidence he presents later but... hmmm #but man you have to be so careful using 'logic' or 'common sense' to make historical arguments. when it's done well it's really good but #more usually it's reductive and just... not evidence based

[aldoodles]

Recognition

#httyd books #THESE KIDS LOVE EACHOTHER SO MUCH GAAAH I LOVE FRIENDSHIP #no one freakin look at me I am so emo about these kids #their reunions!! #fighting tooth and nail to do good in a world burning to the ground— the fact that hiccup and camicazis separate searches for fishlegs #bring them back together again. that she’s the ONLY ONE who’s recognized him so far #when his own father didn’t #she stares her friend in the face and pushes away his disguise #fishlegs on the bring of death gathering all the strength he has to call out I just #*brink #also hiccups lack of braids and Fishlegs lack of braid is bc they’ve been apart for a year and didn’t have eachother to do their hair oK #book!hiccup #camicazi #book!fishlegs #fishlegs no name #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #how to train your dragon books #doodles #al chatters #my art #how to train your dragon #these are prob not accurate I did not consult the book for them

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[deoidesign]

Only 40 hours left to back the Time and Time Again Kickstarter!

Time and Time Again is a webcomic I have been working on full-time with WEBTOON for the past few years... But I've decided to avoid a publisher for printing so the books can stay completely mine, and I can keep working on and with this IP for the rest of my life.

It's a risky, scary, and expensive (both time AND money!) decision, but the absolute outpour of support has really shown me that it's possible and worth it!

Right now I'm printing the first season of the comic, which is four complete self-contained graphic novels! I've only finished 3 right now, because I am writing and adding new scenes to the fourth to make it exactly what I originally envisioned, but life got in the way of!

I make the comic in a format that can't be printed, so I've spent MONTHS converting from one format to another. And the books look incredible! You honestly can't tell they were originally scroll format, and it makes for an entirely new reading experience.

The story follows Adam, a straight-laced vampire time agent, and Steve, a rambunctious half-vampire half-werewolf who is forced to time travel every full moon... Each book is an entirely new time period and location!

You can pick whichever book sounds most fun, or if you get all four then you get to see their developing relationship over the course of the series!

Heres a flip through of one of the books, to show a little bit of what you'll be getting! All of the books are so so so beautiful I'm so proud of them!

But if you want just one, here's a quick breakdown of each:

Book 1: Trouble on the High Seas

Finding themselves aboard a hostile pirate ship, Adam and Steve must find a way to work together... lest they be forced to walk the plank.

Book 2: Summer Camp Cowabummer

Volunteering as counselors at a summer camp facing closure, Adam and Steve must manage their campers and the mysterious problems at the camp.

Book 3: Sights Unseen

Dropped into the ocean off the coast of an allegedly haunted island, Adam and Steve find themselves part of a ghost hunting show!

Book 4: Vampires of London

Tired, stressed, and in the hospitality of a vampire hunter, Adam and Steve seek to uncover a murderer in Victorian London… without revealing themselves to the hunter they’re investigating with.

The kickstarter also has some fun add on items!

Romance style slip covers, so your book can slip into something a little more comfortable~

and... paper dolls!

All this to say, I am EXTREMELY proud of these books and have put so so so much time and effort into making them. Thank you to everyone for supporting me over the years and making all this possible, and thank you to everyone for the support on the kickstarter!

If you can't back the project, I understand!!! Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it! help get this shared around so more people can see it before the kickstarter ends!

There's still 40 hours left to get these books!

(and if by chance you happen to have missed the kickstarter when you see this, the page will link to my site where you can preorder the books!)

#and all the support on this decision so far really means the world to me #kickstarter stuff #kickstarter #crowdfund #webtoon #webtoon original #comic book #comic books #comics #graphic novel #crowdfunding #my ocs #time and time again #my art #digital art #signal boost #god I hope this has no typos

[the---hermit]

27|01|2024

Spending the whole day reading my book has been so healing. I really needed to have a bit of time off from studying, and being able to finally dive into this story like this has been the best way to relax my body and my brain.

📖: A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

#oh to do nothing other than travelling to worlds far away with a book #a day of fallen night #studyblr #studyinspo #uniblr #bookblr #book #currently reading #journal #journaling #calm hobbit winter #productivity #mine #knife gang #the---hermit