I stared at the family ghosts, oppressive as the humidity, and far more terrifying.

from "The Family Ghosts" by M. E. Garber

https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/062

#books #BannedBooks #reading #libraries #funding #GLAM

'Libraries nationwide are invited to apply for one-time funds to launch programming for teens and young adults related to the freedom to read. A total of $50,000 in funding will be given out... Any US library is eligible to apply and receive funding, but special consideration will be given to small and rural libraries, where funding and support for such efforts are often more difficult to attain. '

https://bookriot.com/books-unbanned-programming-funding/

"To read about #American #Jews this summer, you only need to open the newspaper. For better or worse, and probably for worse, Jews have been all too much in the news of late.

Seventy years ago, the situation was quite different. With #WorldWarII moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depict­ed not as alien or disreputable #immi­grants but rather as mem­bers of a respect­ed Amer­i­can #reli­gion, reflected in a mid­dle­brow #literary #cul­ture that reached a main­stream audience. That was true at the end of the 1955 beach #reading season when an unlikely pair of popular #novels made a splash on the #NewYorkTimes #Bestsellers list.

Patrick Dennis (the pen name of Edward Everett Tanner III) published his first #novel, “Auntie Mame,” in August of 1955. “Mame” quickly reached number one on the fiction #bestseller list. A few weeks later, Dennis’s novel ceded the top spot to Herman Wouk’s “Marjorie Morningstar.”

https://www.jta.org/2025/06/12/ideas/70-years-ago-these-beach-reads-explained-jews-to-america

Friendship, memory and regret. On the @fictionable #podcast Bronia Flett goes looking for a theory of change.

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bronia-flett-leopard-spots-story-friendship or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…

#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #bookstodon @bookstodon

Psycholinguist Ana Cláudia de Souza studies how we read and interpret texts.
Her latest article shows that formal referential expressions in academic Portuguese don’t necessarily increase processing cost.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n3.id751
#Linguistics #Reading #OpenAccess

What's the best book-to-film adaptation you've seen?

Protection. #grickledoodle #books #reading #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Passing

Just read this 1929 novel by American author Nella Larsen. The story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends + the discovery that one is 'passing' in a mixed race marriage.

Born in Chicago, Larsen was part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s + 30s. She wrote 2 novels during this time.

Photographs are by Carl Van Vechten

A film adaption of the novel was made in 2021 by Rebecca Hall.

The way schools, at least in America, make reading books such an absolute chore... a mentally painful task associated with nothing but stress and anxiety...
I think it has a lot to do with why many people don't read for pleasure or struggle to gain motivation to do so (like myself).
I feel like nobody in school ever teaches students how to read just for the fun and joy of it. They imprint this horrible mental image, this negative mental association with reading, and never along the way do they teach young people how to read as a hobby.
So everyone reading books either thinks "I have to speedrun this for my deadline" or "what if I missed a super minute point of the plot that I'll be quizzed on later".
Nobody along the line ever said "here's how you do it without any external pressures. Here's how you make the experience memorable and enjoyable."
And that's what we need.
#book #books #reading #read #bookstodon

The proof of a great book is when you listen to the audio for then you can hear the superfluous description, the slow tell don’t show, the needless details, the too slow pace. Try it, you’ll see. Discuss #BookSky #books #reading

Me: "I need more #book recommendations! What is everyone #reading?"

Also me: "I have too many #books on my #TBR ! I need to stop acquiring books!"

Also me: "I'm reading too many books simultaneously..." @bookstodon

Dorthe Nors — Wild Swims

https://pushkinpress.com/book/wild-swims/

Of interest for some:

> ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research.
https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/the-open-science-cookbook/

Book can be purchased, but there is also an open access free edition you can download.

Physical books or e-readers? What's your reading preference?

In a world stripped of nuance, #fiction can explore the complications and contradictions of our daily lives, says Fríða Ísberg:

https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/frida-isberg-fiction-women-fingers

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon

What book are you currently reading? Share your current page-turner!

#ScribesAndMakers 6/11: Do you give any of your work away for free?

Yes, I give away four books that are the first in series:

Dorelle's Journey (also in my store now)
A Wolf's Quest
Decoy
South Breaks

I talk about them here, and there are also all the links:

https://www.hannah-steenbock.de/four-awesome-free-books/

Enjoy!

#WritingCommunity
#FreeBooks
#Reading

Physical books or e-readers? What's your reading preference?

Is this you? #highered #TeamEnglish #edchat #reading #books