#threadcast 52
Sat 16-Nov-24
βΉοΈ This is the #bookcast where we chat all things #books
π¬ Talk about what you've read, what you'd like to read and discuss the world of literature!
Happy reading! π
Blooming marvellous: the yearβs best gardening books
I am an absolute sucker for a handsome reproduction of a rare and highly illustrated natural history, preferably more than two centuries old...
Welcome to the weekend, and today's BookCast! Share all your reading chit-chat right here...
Yesterday's edition:
https://inleo.io/threads/view/leobooks/re-leothreads-2hru5tv6e
The best fiction books of 2024
This year's standout novels offered a mix of brains and fun, with side-helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Read on for our highlightsβ¦
The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins review β the great biologistβs swansong
All things must pass, but some leave legacies. That is the story of life on Earth. Fossilised remains of organisms represent just one of the various treasure troves of information about how life used to be, one set of clues to why it is the way it is today...
Books of the year 2024
New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
10 noteworthy books for November and December
Katherine Rundell and David Baldacci are among the authors with new books.
Books that imagine that history took a different course
What if Hitler had won and Hillary Rodham had broken up with Bill Clinton? | The Economist reads.
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross review β an absolute blast
On paper, Of Love and Hunger, published in 1947, sounds like the result of a challenge to write the dullest book possible.
Garth Greenwell: βI didnβt read Middlemarch until my late 30s. Why didnβt someone intervene? β
The novelist on Virginia Woolf's luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writer.
Caitlin Moran has given details about a new book sheβs working on and we canβt wait
Caitlin Moran has revealed the details of her forthcoming book, which she's actually putting the finishing touches to this weekend.
Top 5 books in rhyme, chosen by children's author Vicky Cowie
Rhyming can help with early literacy. Children's author Vicky Cowie picks her favourite books given life by couplets.
Top 10 best Robert Harris books ranked - and Fatherland is not No. 1
His novels span from turbulent ancient Rome to alternate histories of World War II.
Sex with fairies, girls pimped out by their dads and pornographic language: I spent a week reading the 'spicy'
Parenting author and mother-of-two Tanith Carey spent a week reading the hot new trend in 'spicy' romance literature and was 'shocked'...
The Gruffaloβs illustrator launches book to help UK pupils learn German
Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first language.
War by Bob Woodward review β the Watergate veteran on Gaza, Ukraine and Trump
Woodward's latest page turner takes you inside the room β but can he still claim to be an impartial fly on the wall?
π Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the author gives us lessons in living and discusses the final lecture he gave.
ποΈ And this is that last lecture from Pauschβ¦