#ReadingRecs

[aaknopf]

“What is a game? It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.” ―from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

[studying-with-k]

Reading list Jan-24

Books

Frolic of the beasts by Yukio Mishima

tools for conviviality by Ivan Illch

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

In The Company of Men by Veronique Tadjo (you can find my review here)

Only People Make Their Own History by Samir Amin

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J. Evans

Papers/articles!

Letter: On Academic Marxism, “The Masses,” and Bourgeois Nationalism - Cosmonaut (cosmonautmag.com)

International Financial Centres as Channels for Foreign Investment Inflows to Europe by Bulatov, Habarta and Sergeev

Robin Blackburn, Crisis 2.0, NLR 72, November–December 2011 (newleftreview.org)

Robin Blackburn, The Subprime Crisis, NLR 50, March–April 2008 (newleftreview.org)

Financialization, Financial Elites, and the Changing Genres of Financial and Banking History by Simon Mollan

[byfaithmedia]

What has God called you to do? ✍🏼

Discover More: https://byfaith.org/product/rees-howells-life-of-faith-intercession-spiritual-warfare-walking-in-the-spirit/

[piepress]

Today's quote is from David McCullough, who wrote The Johnstown Flood. Did you know that many of Pie Press's books are set in Johnstown, PA?

Check them out here: https://piepresspublishing.com/product-category/johnstown-pa-books/

[joyffree]

Are you ready for a Valentine romance? Preorder your copy of Love in Print by Darby Blake!

Maggie Hoffman has met the love of her life . . . in the grocery store. Only, before she can tell him she's madly in love with him, without knowing who he is, he bolts. Now, the only sensible thing to do is ask him out, via an ad in the newspaper. Will this mystery man in aisle five show up or will Maggie be left contemplating her love life in the Hallmark section?

[teencenterspl]

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Holidays got you busier than usual? Well...have you ever heard of our personal YA Book Bag service? All you gotta do is fill out a form (link in our bio!) with your information and reading preferences, and our teen librarian will pick 5 books that she thinks you will like and then you come and pick them up! It's a great way to find something new, explore different genres, or see what the latest books to hit the shelves are! And as always...it is a completely free service 😊

[thespotofficial]

Hey Spot I have a really good reading recommendation https://archiveofourown.org/works/48547717 I think you should check it out

ogay!! thank you ❤️👍😝

[kathleenstoneauthor]

“Hey Jude” is the story of a young woman and a deaf child who desperately need each other, with outside circumstances fighting against them at every turn.

mybook.to/HeyJude

#ValentinesDay #romance #love #BookRecs #ReadingRecs

[animentality]

Made my first Tiktok!!!

Kind of fucking terrified, but. You know.

7 Deadly Habits, an urban fantasy adventure with romance and dark comedy, available here.

Full description below:

Transcribed-

Twenty-three-year-old CEO Don Francisco wants one of the richest women in the world dead. Which one? Daphne Oakland: actress, model, heir to the Oakland financial empire, and unbeknownst to the general public, talented demon summoner. But since Francisco isn’t nearly as rich as the established Oakland family, he hires the only assassin he can afford: Sebastián Monterey, a down-on-his-luck, struggling demon summoner, the cheapest and lowest ranking one there is.

But Monterey is nothing like Cisco expected. He’s high-spirited, reckless, relentlessly cheerful …and worse, he’s a bit of a slut. The CEO is horrified to find out that Monterey has not just one, but seven angry exes in the killing business, who will stop at nothing to get in the way of an already impossible hit. Not only do they have personal reasons for wanting to see their former lover dead, they also have professional reasons: they are all currently employed by the Oakland family members!

To make matters worse, Monterey finds out the Oaklands are each protecting a demon ritual artifact for Daphne. When brought together, all 7 can be used to summon a demon more powerful than any currently contracted on earth. If he is to carry out this hit at all, he’ll have to interfere with the summon by stealing every artifact, and maybe even summon the demon before Daphne can.

But that's only if none of his exes kill him first!

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Watch Tobias Menzies read an extract from Mater 2-10, the #InternationalBooker2024-shortlisted novel written by Hwang Sok-yong and translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae

Directed by Charlotte Hamblin for Merman.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE International Booker–---nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney.

During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century.

It is at once a gripping account of a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial labourers, and a culmination of Hwang’s career — a masterpiece thirty years in the making. A true voice of a generation, Hwang shows again why he is unmatched when it comes to depicting the roots and reality of a divided nation and bringing to life the trials and tribulations of the Korean people.

@ The Booker Prizes

Absolutely brilliant, Tobias Menzies! 🤩 Just his facial expressions show the audience his level of acting 🎭

#BookerPrize #BookRecs #ReadingRecs #BookTok #TBR #TobiasMenzies # TikTok #TobiasMenziesEdit #Seoul #TheCrown #TheCrownNetflix #TheTerror #Outlander #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesEdit

Posted 25th April 2024

[alixx-black]

Books! Books! Books! Read My Books!

I am #writing #books and they obvs are my #readingrecs - so let me tell you all about them.

I know! I know! What do you mean books? You’ve been posting poetry every day. That is a factual statement. However, I wrote all of these poems over the course of several months and have been scheduling them to post regularly. What I’m proactively working on right now are multiple novellas and an anthology series over on WattPad. It was always the plan to put multi-chapter works on a different…

[aaknopf]

Yes, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a love story, but unlike any you have read before. Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. Gabrielle Zevin’s X novel examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect.

[studying-with-k]

Monthly Reads (August to December)

Uni wiped the floor with me so I didn't get to work on this list for a long ass time but here we go

Books

Lukacs Concept of Dialectics by Istvan Meszaros

Songs of Kabir (edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra)

Shyam Benegal's Manthan screenplay

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Gramsci's Thought by EMS Namboodiripad and P. Govinda Pillai

The Theban Plays by Sophocles

Absolutely on Music: conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Murakami

What I talk about when I talk about Running

Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami

Papers/essays

The Wall Street Consensus Daniela Gabor

Worker's Profit Participation, Unemployment and the Keynesian Equilibrium by Jaroslav Vanek

Failure of the new Left by Herbert Marcuse

The General Theory of Second Best by Lipsey and Lancaster

Attack on Dalit Panthers (written for EPW)

Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth (link)

Time To Enclose The Enclosers With Marx and Illich (link)

Atrocities on the Dalit Panthers by Navroz Mody

Dalit Panthers: Another View for EPW

Children of God Become Panthers by S.V

THE NEED FOR A COMMON ROOF (THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY) by Ivan Illich

Portrait of the Marxist as a Young Hegelian: Lukács' Theory of the Novel by David H. Miles

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Since it's the new year soon I look forward to showing more cool stuff I come across and share cool things I learn!

[byfaithmedia]

Amen ✍🏼

[piepress]

Don’t miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising fantasy tales by a Doctor Who author who was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. It’s the latest collection from award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected fantasy that really packs a punch. This collection features a Victorian steampunk who finds that cross-dressing is the key to saving the world, a rainmaking sorcerer who’s about to make the fourth Johnstown Flood a reality…and Inspector Glisten, a hard-boiled, two-fisted, rose-headed cop.

[joyffree]

💥 PREORDER 💥

Meet the men of The Leonidas Corporation by Tarina Deaton!

Preorder your copies of: Found in the Lost by Tarina Deaton (releasing Jan 10th) Flaw in the Defense by Tarina Deaton (releasing Jan. 17th)

And grab your copy of Truth in the Lie by Tarina Deaton

Found in the Lost An offer of a ride turns into a dangerous, heart-pounding trek through the jungle, while a simple vacation attraction develops into something deeper. With the help of The Leonidas Corporation, they’ll race to find the lost Mayan city, but there’s more at stake than priceless treasure and Kinley and Shane could lose more than they bargained for. Because someone wants the secret Kinley holds and will do anything to get it.

Flaw in the Defense Paige Davis made a split-second decision years ago – one that made her into the woman she is today. A strong, independent executive of a private security company, she lives her life with no regrets and no apologies. But when a girl’s trip to celebrate her birthday leads to wedding crashing and a hot vacation fling with the bride’s brother, Paige starts to wonder if her life might be missing a few things after all.

📚📖✨ #bookgeek

igreaders #tbrpile