#Books

i’ve been sending out parcels & postcards to friends and thinking about how much more tangible that love & care is. there’s not more love in them than a good
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there has never been a better time to read literally any other book?https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1309244487856795649 i'm genuinely like staggered by this. separating art from the artist is one thing — and kind
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realization:italy's age of consent is 14. elio was 17, oliver 24. 7-year gap. hebephelia? pedophilia? i think no. + there's no mention of manipulation or whatsoever. what's wrong with ur
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Been trying to think of what to say about our closed libraries, while trying to not think about it bc it’s too sad. Not using the space that’s like a
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In honor of #BannedBooksWeek (and as a furtherance to a Twitter discussion I had last week), I thought I might tell you the story of the time my son (who
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A THREAD// Amber Heard once said...“Beauty has always been seen as something that’s in the eye of the beholder and I say take it back – you as the holder.”
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I don’t normally RT provocateurs but this is a useful prompt to discuss economic illiteracy on the right. In May, we borrowed £3.8bn at a “negative yield” - meaning we
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.@realDonaldTrump just tweeted that 100% mail-in voting is “RIPE FOR FRAUD” and “shouldn’t be allowed!”That may come as news to Utah which is one state that already has 100% mail-in
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In a story, an African man was given the opportunity to ask for anything he wants.The condition was that, whatever he gets, his brother would receive double.He thought about asking
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One of our librarians had a delivery of 80kg of books from her old house today, so we thought for #WorldBookDay what could be more appropriate than asking some of
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*opens book from from library that have had on hold for months and have heard is a pretty good romance*"the sassy latina""her accent reared its ethnic head"*returns book* both quotes
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redwall ride or diehttps://twitter.com/ULTRAGLOSS/status/1247186812688306177 seeing in this thread there are like 10 fuckin pendragon books, I had the first 4 but only read the first 2, should I go back
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Many Christian publishers don't have a great understanding of sexuality but do have a strong sense of Whose Voice Needs to Be Heard, so the same books with the same
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I’m reading a book about living in France in world war 2, after they became occupied. When ration books & black markets couldn’t get you basic supplies & food, when
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Proud to launch the 'Free Books Campaign,' getting books by authors of colour to those who cannot access them due to socioeconomic, systemic and other barriers to access.Following the fundraiser,
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As someone who has written for decades about corporate crime, I was reading the Trump O/Weisselberg indictment going, "Yah, ok..hmm..yah..ok..Wait..HOLY SHIT!" The Trump Org is in deep, deep trouble. And
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