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Recommended Reading: What Makes This Book So Great

What Makes This Book So Great is a compendium of blog posts about Jo Walton's rereads of books, not necessarily all science fiction and fantasy. These are blog posts originally published on Tor.com, so they are short, breezy, and quick to read. Walton is such a prodigious reader, averaging a book or more a day (I wonder … Continue reading Recommended Reading: What Makes This Book So Great

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July 29, 2015August 3, 2015Jo Walton, Reading, Rereading, Science fiction, Tor.com, What Makes This Book So GreatLeave a comment
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Links for readers…

Some interesting links I've stumbled across lately: On annotating books (BookRiot): I personally cannot mark up a paper book, which is another reason why I like my Kindle--it makes highlighting painless. More marginalia (New York Review of Books). A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another (Brain Pickings). What's reading … Continue reading Links for readers…

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June 30, 2015January 10, 2016Annotations, Jo Walton, Marginalia, Neil Gaiman, Reader's Corner, Readers, Reading2 Comments
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Books by women: A reading list

In a recent post, I discussed trying to read books written by women. This led me to consider which women authors I would recommend, and I came up with a list of books by women that I think are entertaining and enlightening reads. Of course, I am not the only person to have come up … Continue reading Books by women: A reading list

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June 22, 2014December 12, 2014Anne Lamott, Audrey Niffenegger, Charlotte Bronte, Connie Willis, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy L. Sayers, E Annie Proulx, Erin Morgenstern, Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Jean Hegland, Jo Walton, Kate Atkinson, Kate Chopin, Kate Wilhelm, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell, MK Wren, Nancy Kress, Octavia Butler, Patricia Highsmith, PD James, Reading list, Reading women, Sheri S. Tepper, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, Ursula K Le Guin, Women writers, Year of reading women1 Comment

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