📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #scifi)
📜HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK📜
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
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➡️ From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe. ---------------------------------------------------------
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Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come.
📜HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK📜
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
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➡️ From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resiliency of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on earth for generations to come.
📚 Best Books about TRAVELLING📚
🔹"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
🔹"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
🔹"The Beach" by Alex Garland
🔹"Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
🔹"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
🔹"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
🔹"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
🔹"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
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🔹"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
🔹"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
🔹"The Beach" by Alex Garland
🔹"Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
🔹"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
🔹"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
🔹"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
🔹"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
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📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #history)
📜THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB📜
by Richard Rhodes
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➡️ The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. ---------------------------------------------------------
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This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
📜THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB📜
by Richard Rhodes
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➡️ The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. ---------------------------------------------------------
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This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #philosophy #politics)
📜ON LIBERTY📜
by John Stuart Mill
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➡️ John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom. ---------------------------------------------------------
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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, feminist, and civil servant. He contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy as well as noted contributions to human rights, political freedom, and politics & government. John Stuart Mill expresses his view on freedom by illustrating how an individual's drive to better their station, and for self-improvement, is the sole source of true freedom. In his work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill recognizes the difference between liberty as the freedom to act and liberty as the absence of coercion.
📜ON LIBERTY📜
by John Stuart Mill
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➡️ John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom. ---------------------------------------------------------
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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, feminist, and civil servant. He contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy as well as noted contributions to human rights, political freedom, and politics & government. John Stuart Mill expresses his view on freedom by illustrating how an individual's drive to better their station, and for self-improvement, is the sole source of true freedom. In his work, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill recognizes the difference between liberty as the freedom to act and liberty as the absence of coercion.
📚Books about history and struggles of marginalized communities📚
🔻"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
🔻"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
🔻"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
🔻"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
🔻"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
🔻"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson
🔻"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
🔻"No-No Boy" by John Okada
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🔻"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
🔻"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
🔻"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
🔻"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
🔻"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
🔻"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson
🔻"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
🔻"No-No Boy" by John Okada
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📜 We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
➡️ We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
➡️ We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #memoir)
📜GOODBYE TO ALL THAT📜
by Robert Graves
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➡️ An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War. ---------------------------------------------------------
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In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
📜GOODBYE TO ALL THAT📜
by Robert Graves
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➡️ An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
📚 Books about GERMANY BETWEEN THE WARS 📚
🔻"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
🔻"Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin
🔻"The Artificial Silk Girl" by Irmgard Keun
🔻"Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood
🔻"Mr Norris Changes Trains" by Christopher Isherwood
🔻"The Seventh Cross" by Anna Seghers
🔻"The Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann
🔻"Every Man Dies Alone" by Hans Fallada
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🔻"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
🔻"Berlin Alexanderplatz" by Alfred Döblin
🔻"The Artificial Silk Girl" by Irmgard Keun
🔻"Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood
🔻"Mr Norris Changes Trains" by Christopher Isherwood
🔻"The Seventh Cross" by Anna Seghers
🔻"The Buddenbrooks" by Thomas Mann
🔻"Every Man Dies Alone" by Hans Fallada
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📜Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
➡️Winston S. Churchill
➡️Winston S. Churchill
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #classics)
📜AMERICA📜
by Franz Kafka
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➡️ From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first—and funniest—novel.
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Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
📜AMERICA📜
by Franz Kafka
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➡️ From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first—and funniest—novel.
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Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
📚Books about the BYZANTINE EMPIRE 📚
🔷"Count Belisarius" by Robert Graves
🔷"The Secret History" by Procopius
🔷"The Emperor" by Ryszard Kapuściński
🔷"Byzantium" by Stephen R. Lawhead
🔷"The Mosaic of Shadows" by Tom Harper
🔷"The Varangian" by Bruce Macbain
🔷"Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore" by Stella Duffy
🔷"The Charioteer of Delphi" by Caroline Lawrence
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🔷"Count Belisarius" by Robert Graves
🔷"The Secret History" by Procopius
🔷"The Emperor" by Ryszard Kapuściński
🔷"Byzantium" by Stephen R. Lawhead
🔷"The Mosaic of Shadows" by Tom Harper
🔷"The Varangian" by Bruce Macbain
🔷"Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore" by Stella Duffy
🔷"The Charioteer of Delphi" by Caroline Lawrence
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📜 It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
➡️ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
➡️ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜THE RIVER WE REMEMBER📜
by William Kent Krueger
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➡️ From the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land.
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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel.
📜THE RIVER WE REMEMBER📜
by William Kent Krueger
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➡️ From the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land.
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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel.
📜According to Guardian, which is the best book ever written?
Anonymous Quiz
36%
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
15%
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
28%
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
21%
Emma Jane Austen
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary #comedy)
📜DON'T FORGET TO WRITE📜
by Sara Goodman
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➡️ In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good.
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When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.
To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly. As the summer unfolds, Ada and Marilyn head for the Jersey shore, where Marilyn helps Ada scope out eligible matches—for anyone but Marilyn, that is.
Because if there’s one thing Marilyn’s learned from Ada, it’s that she doesn’t have to settle. With the school year quickly approaching and her father threatening to disinherit her, Marilyn must make her choice for her future: return to the comfortable life she knows or embrace a risky, unknown path on her own.
📜DON'T FORGET TO WRITE📜
by Sara Goodman
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➡️ In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good.
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📗About:
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi’s son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it’s Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye.
To Marilyn’s surprise, Ada’s not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac convertible. She’s sharp, straight-talking, takes her job very seriously, and abides by her own rules…mostly. As the summer unfolds, Ada and Marilyn head for the Jersey shore, where Marilyn helps Ada scope out eligible matches—for anyone but Marilyn, that is.
Because if there’s one thing Marilyn’s learned from Ada, it’s that she doesn’t have to settle. With the school year quickly approaching and her father threatening to disinherit her, Marilyn must make her choice for her future: return to the comfortable life she knows or embrace a risky, unknown path on her own.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #fantasy #dystopia)
📜THE MAZE RUNNER📜
by James Dashner
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➡️ If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.
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When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
Everything is going to change.
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Remember. Survive. Run.
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📜THE MAZE RUNNER📜
by James Dashner
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➡️ If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.
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📚About:
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.
Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.
Everything is going to change.
Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Remember. Survive. Run.
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Give it a 👌 if you have read it.