#Ken Follet

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Queen Camilla attends a dinner as part of the Braemar Literary Festival at the Fife Arms, 20.09.2024

via Thefifearms

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"Never", de Ken Follett en la #LíneaD

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LA ARMADURA DE LA LUZ (KEN FOLLETT)

La revolución está en el aire: 1792. Un gobierno despótico está decidido a convertir Inglaterra en un poderoso imperio comercial. Y, desde el otro lado del mar, suenan tambores de guerra mientras Napoleón Bonaparte comienza su ascenso al poder y prepara un violento plan para convertirse en emperador del mundo. Kingsbridge se asoma al abismo: los avances industriales se imponen de manera…

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Jesús Ruiz Mantilla: Ken Follett: “Si los europeos olvidan lo cabrones retorcidos que podemos ser los británicos, quizás un día volvamos a la UE”

El autor de ‘Los pilares de la tierra’ vive en la campiña inglesa, en una casa con un granero, donde da conciertos como bajista de una banda de blues rock, y una librería con sus obras —175 millones de ejemplares vendidos— en 40 idiomas. Lo visitamos antes de la publicación de su nuevo libro, ‘La armadura de la luz’ LEER LA ENTREVISTA

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Tidbits from World Without End by Ken Follet

Probably one of the best books I have ever read

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However I am learning a lot about building a bridge, so silver lining.

Nothing quite makes me put down a book like the aggravating characters you can find in a Kingsbridge Series book. Godwyn, Ralph, I’ve nearly yeeted the book several times because of you.

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Requested by anon

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ANYWAY I got a hike tomorrow so Im going to bed to read until its bed time

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The only reason I read a 1000pg book on napoleons entire military career was so I could understand fiction books that were set in that time period (of which there are a lot, especially old fiction since it was literally a 20yr affair) and I'm so glad I did honestly it really puts a lot of stuff into perspective

[xcziel]

in New Release news, out today are:

new HC version of The Hobbit featuring Tolkien's own illustrations, $75 list price whew

3rd volume of the english version of the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manga

Leslie F*cking Jones' (that is the title) new book

4th Thurday Murder Club mystery by Osman

Anderson Cooper's book about the Astors

and thriller Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll, author of Luckiest Girl Alive

also for the season: re-releases of pulp horror stories from the 70s and 80s in Grady Hendrix's Paperbacks From Hell series

also also: midnight release parties are back - Iron Flame (sequel to Fourth Wing) is out November 7 and if you want the fancy first edition binding you may want to check who near you is hosting on the night of Nov 6

[camillasgirl]

Queen Camilla, accompanied by French First Lady Brigitte Macron, visits the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BNF) in Paris for the launch of a new UK-France literary prize, the Entente Litteraire Prize, Paris, France, 21.09.2023

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9 Books for 2025!

Tagged by @cdyssey to share 9 books I plan to read in 2025! (thank you kindly <3)

(I have 67 books in my physical TBR and don't generally plan my reading because I never stick to reading plans so take these with a pile of salt)

Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory - I've had the Norton Critical Edition sitting on my shelf for a little over a year now because it's in Middle English, a thousand pages, and I'm intimidated. But I'm totally gonna start it tomorrow. Hopefully.

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel - Alison Bechdel's memoir about her dad was one of my absolute favorite reads last year and I just got my hands on this one, I'm super excited to read it.

A Ilíada (The Iliad) by Homer (tr. Leonardo Antunes) - Just got my hands on this and I've never read the Iliad, I really like a lot of this translator's work so I wanted this edition in particular.

"Caramba"/"A la vache!" by Getúlio Antero de Deus Júnior - this is a self-published bilingual (Portuguese/French) book of poetry that I did not win in a contest because I couldn't partake but the guy that won it didn't know what to do with it and I'm trying to get good at French, so I bemoaned not getting it and he gave it to me.

Une Femme m'Apparut (A Woman Appeared to Me) by Renée Vivien - I'm hoping to read this close to the end of the year and actually understand it.

Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) by Euclides da Cunha - it's a non-fiction book written by a reporter about the War of Canudos, it's best known internationally for having inspired The War at the End of the World, I believe. I think I'm gonna love it but I've also heard that it has a lot of uninteresting extraneous stuff so I've been putting it off.

William Shakespeare - I have the Wordsworth Complete Works edition that I'd love to finish this year, but if I read a play a month I'm happy with that (I've only read Macbeth so far and that was last year).

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelarie - I was reading an edition in French and a translation in Portuguese in tandem and I need to finish that (I borrowed them from the library, didn't finish, accumulated a lot of fees I was thankfully able to pay by donating a book I hated, anyway I need to borrow it again). I'm gonna be so good at French by the end of this year. Please.

The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follet - Honestly this is a punishment for buying the whole Kingsbridge series before I read the first one (The Pillars of the Earth) because I was so sure I was gonna love it. I have to finish this, I can't take it anymore. At least it doesn't seem as bad as A Column of Fire and Ken Follet seems to have learned about fade to black if not that rape scenes are unneeded.

Tagging @lonely-night @elssbethtascioni @royalarmyofoz @sapphicstaring @aquila1nz

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Se ti capita l’amore di tipo folle,

afferralo con tutte e due le mani e al diavolo le conseguenze.

Ken Follet

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13 books

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

Thanks @willameena for the tag! :D

1) The Last book I read:

Idk if it counts since it's a graphic novel but the last thing I read was Bolchoi Arena, by Boulet and Aseyn. It's a sort of Ready Player One universe (less dystopic i think though). I really like it, but I'm waiting for the fourth volume to come out and there isn't a release date yet 😭

(I don't think there's an English translation (yet) so i can only recommend it if you speak french, sorry)

2) A book I recommend:

Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao. LOVED IT! I'm bad at recommending stuff but: big monsters, pacific rim style machines to fight the monsters, polyamory, ruthless woman, plot twists... So cool!

Also Loveless, by Alice Oseman, because it's about aromanticism and asexuality which is almost non-existent in... any media really, and that book is very dear to me.

3) A book that I couldn’t put down:

All the ones I really like x) I struggle a lot with putting down a book once I'm into it. The first advice to fall asleep easier is always 'don't use your phone before bed, read a book instead!' but if I do that I won't even try to sleep, I'll just keep reading all night...

But I guess the one that I was the most surprised about not being able to put down is The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet. I'm not particularly into historical books, and that's a huge book around the building of a cathedral, so I was a bit skeptical, but damn, it was great! It's over 1000 pages and I still managed to read it in less than a week while on a school trip.

4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):

So many of my childhood books. I almost spent more time re-reading my favorite stuff than reading new books lol. I think the ones I've re-read the most are Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and La Quête d'Ewilan.

5) A book on my TBR:

So many. Soooo many. I keep buying books even though I don't read them, help.

I'll go with the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers because I really want to read them, people keep recommending them, I have them (in a really cool edition), I can literally see them in my bookshelf right now, and yet I don't read them for some reason 🤷

6) A book I’ve put down:

Also a lot. If I manage to put a book down I can forget it exists in a couple of days, even if i loved it, and weeks later I'm like "oh shit, I never finished that book".

One of the few that I put down more or less on purpose is Silo, by Hugh Howey. I'm pretty sure I would like it if I kept reading but something happens only a few chapters in that put me off and kind of annoyed me so I never read the rest.

7) A book on my wish list:

Revenge of the Sith! And many other star wars books. The reason why I still don't have it is that I want it in english so I have to order it online from the UK probably, and between the shipping and the taxes from being from outside the EU (sometimes there are taxes, sometimes not, i don't understand how it works)(one time I had to pay taxes on my own clothes that I sent myself from the UK to France 😭😭 I'm still mad about it) it'll end up being way more expensive than it should, so I'm putting it off x) I looked for it when I was in scotland but they didn't have it :(

8) A favorite book from childhood:

The ones I mentioned in 4) were my all time fav, I can't think of any other right now even though I used to read a lot more books than i do now 🤔

9) A book you would give to a friend:

Honestly I would be so scared they didn't like it that I probably would never give a book to anyone unless they asked for it 😬 (except my family I guess)

Mayyybe a Dan Brown, like The Da Vinci Code? I feel like that would be a pretty safe bet, unless they hate the genre.

10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own:

I don't think I have any? I had to read Alcools, by Apollinaire for the baccalauréat (french high school graduation exam) but I think it was my mom's copy and i honestly hated it. According to my teacher it was "cubist poetry" which, what? I was not smart enough to understand any of it, and it wasn't doing it for me.

(Literary analysis is my nemesis, I'm usually pretty smart but when I try to analyse a text it's just *no thoughts, head empty*)

I'm really picky about poetry so I don't really know where to start to read any.

11) A nonfiction book you own:

I don't have many: a few anthologies of queer stories, How to Invent Everything by Ryan North (literally what the title says lmao), Eject! Eject! by John Nichol (about the history of ejection seats, super interesting!), Les Guerres de Lucas by Renaud Roche and Laurent Hopman (a french graphic novel about George Lucas), and Tu mourras moins bête by Marion Montaigne (scientific stuff explained, but make it hilarious, also french comics)

12) What are you currently reading:

Ithaca, by Claire North, but I've barely started.

13) What are you planning on reading next?

No idea! Maybe Iron Flame, maybe The Priory of the Orange Tree, maybe Floating Hotel, maybe finally the Wayfarers series, maybe a random other book, who knows 🤷

If you've read all of that, thank you and congratulations!

Tags: @piecesofeden11 @sendpseuds @kingdomvel @bolshoiromanova @renlyslittlerose @intermundia @desmothene @arobiwan @cottonraincoat @starwalkertales @artbythedarkside @shakeskp @somethingsteff (I tried not to tag people I had seen tagged already)(but no pressure!)

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Se ti capita l'amore di tipo folle,

afferralo con tutte e due le mani

e al diavolo le conseguenze.

Ken Follet

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ANY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS??

IF THIS IS A MAN primo levi

WIT margaret edson

PURPLE HIBISCUS chimamanda ngozi adichie

ALICE ADAMS booth tarkington

LIBERATION DAY george saunders

PILLARS OF THE EARTH ken follet

These r all GOOD 😎