Leisurestuff: Reading
Online resources to help you locate a new book to read while you snuggle under the blankets before you go to sleep.
- Read Something Great (interesting articles) [web site]
- Why our future relies on libraries, reading, and daydreaming, according to Neil Gaiman. [web page]
- The idea at the core of all our issues is neoliberalism. [web page]
- Industrial farming is one of the most heinous atrocities ever committed. [web page]
- Capitalism's demise has started. [web page]
- In Germany, 500 new fairytales have been found. [web page]
- The top 100 books of the twenty-first century. [web page]
- Michael Rosen has been released from critical care following an eight-week stay in the hospital, according to his wife. [web page]
- Umberto Eco, Italian novelist and intellectual, dies aged 84. [web page]
- Cafes across the globe accept poetry in lieu of coffee. [web page]
- Our users suggest ten independent bookstores across the globe that you should visit. [web page]
- JK Rowling is set to distribute a new children's book online for free, according to The Ickabog. [web page]
- Matthew Desmond's eviction - what if the issue with poverty is that it is lucrative to others? [web page]
- The complete list of the 100 finest English-language books. [web page]
- According to experts, fairytales are far older than previously assumed. [web page]
- On World Poetry Day, these are 28 of the most striking lines ever written in poetry. [web page]
- Alan Moore, the comics expert, calls superheroes a "cultural disaster." [web page]
- A petition to name a new element after Terry Pratchett's colour of magic has been begun. [web page]
- The list of the 100 best books of all time. [web page]
- Rachel Dolezal has signed a contract with a publishing house to produce a book about race. [web page]
- Howard Marks, aka 'Mr Nice,' has died at the age of 70. [web page]
- Neil Gaiman will adapt Terry Pratchett's partnership for television in Good Omens. [web page]
- The ancient book that 'proves Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children' is known as 'The Lost Gospel.' [web page]
- My Christmas in New York, Harper Lee. [web page]
- Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potter receives his own 50p coin, which he didn't have to steal. [web page]
- Claudia Rankine: ‘Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people’ [web page]
- The worldwide scarcity of pencils is due to the adult colouring book obsession. [web page]
- Forget mindfulness and self-discovery; start fake it instead. [web page]
- On battling the extreme right, Benjamin Zephaniah says, "If we didn't do anything, we'd be murdered on the streets." [web page]
- Why existentialists think large, live free, and enjoy sex [web page]
- The top 100 novels recommended by David Bowie. [web page]
- The handwritten appeal for refugees to get online by William Shakespeare. [web page]
- 202 Fictional Characters' Myers-Briggs Types [web page]
- Whisper's Bookish Secrets [web page]
- The guy who revealed the drug war's deception. [web page]
- Audible is making hundreds of titles available for free while schools are closed due to the coronavirus epidemic. [web page]
- Rhianna Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett's daughter, remembers him. [web page]
- JK Rowling uses Twitter to share rejection letters with aspiring writers. [web page]
- A Global Reading List: Around the World in 80 Books [web page]
- In classic texts, scientists have discovered traces of mathematical structures. [web page]
- JK Rowling has offered to pay a year's salary to the individual responsible for the civil service tweet that described Boris Johnson as "arrogant and insulting." [web page]
- Female Authors' 100 Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels [web page]
- The strength of public poetry is that the channel is the message. [web page]
- Is it a rule, or what? You may be committing one of these ten common grammatical errors. [web page]
- A previously unpublished Beatrix Potter novella starring an older Peter Rabbit is set to be released. [web page]
- As Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway alludes to 'alternative truths,' George Orwell's 1984 sells out on Amazon. [web page]
- From Wuthering Heights to Great Expectations, these are 40 novels to read before you die. [web page]
- Jane Austen's 240th birthday: how well do you know her works? [web page]
- For Bookish Hearts, there are 20 Literary Valentine's Day Cards. [web page]
- Amnesty International has announced the publication of a picture book inspired by John Lennon. [web page]
- In 7 Easy Steps, Host a Silent Reading Party. [web page]
- Donald Trump's freedom to be 'offensive and racist' is defended by JK Rowling. [web page]
- In images, Bertrand Russell's ten teachings for a creative, happy life. [web page]
- Could Cthulhu come out on top against the other Super Tuesday contenders? [web page]
- Five lessons to learn from the Moomins, according to Frank Cottrell Boyce. [web page]
- JK Rowling slammed for writing about "Native American wizards" [web page]
- Finland rated as world's most literate. [web page]
- Generation Anthropocene: How humans have permanently changed the world [web page]
- Emma, Jane Austen's novel, transformed the face of fiction forever. [web page]
- Only one book is available at a time at a Japanese bookstore. [web page]
- JK Rowling's next Harry Potter book, the theatrical script, will be released in July. [web page]
- Yale English students want an end to the emphasis on white male authors. [web page]
- When we go into a bookstore, we have 23 thoughts. [web page]
- Umberto Eco in quotes – 10 of the best. [web page]
- George RR Martin, the author of Game of Thrones, missed the deadline for his new book on television. [web page]
- Penguin does away with the need for a bachelor's degree when hiring new employees. [web page]
- Review of Friedrich Nietzsche's Anti-Education — Why popular society, not colleges, is producing our greatest thinking. [web page]
- There are 12 bookshops that every reader should visit at least once in their lives. [web page]
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Fear of causing offence becomes a fetish'. [web page]
- Neil Gaiman is reportedly in negotiations to adapt Gormenghast for the big screen. [web page]
- Have foreign reviewers discovered the greatest British book of all time? [web page]
- The not-so-distant past of female-drawn comics. [web page]
- 5 Best Horror Books to Make You Enjoy Being Scared [web page]
- Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird' [web page]
- Pankaj Mishra on Arundhati Roy: Hindu nationalists may suppress writers in a variety of methods. [web page]
- Our terrifying finalists in Stephen King's short storey competition. [web page]
- With Harry Potter Ambient Sounds, you may fully immerse yourself in the Harry Potter universe. [web page]
- Is finishing Ulysses by James Joyce the most difficult novel you've ever read? [web page]
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of The Shadow of the Wind, died of cancer at the age of 55. [web page]
- HP depleted Houdini commissioned Lovecraft to create a piece that defies history. [web page]
- Stop saying these things to us, non-readers. [web page]
- Pinterest's Best Bookish Art. [web page]
- The 2017 Read Harder Challenge from Book Riot. [web page]
- Bones found at prison may belong to real-life Tess of the d'Urbervilles. [web page]
- Why should translators' names appear on book covers? [web page]
- Five years on, authors reflect on the Arab Spring and say, "I was dreadfully wrong." [web page]
- Terry Pratchett's final novel makes longlist for Carnegie medal. [web page]
- Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazine. [web page]
- On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, here are 60 words and phrases you never knew originated from the Bard. [web page]
- Atheism has ancient roots and is not ‘modern invention’, claims new text. [web page]
- A chart-based investigation by Sherlock Holmes. [web page]
- The winner of the Guardian short storey contest is chosen by Stephen King. [web page]
- Readings in Melbourne, Australia, is the greatest bookstore in the world, according to an interview with the retailer. [web page]
- Harry Potter Taught Me 25 Life Lessons. [web page]
- Visiting the country's oldest bookshop, which also happens to be haunted. [web page]
- Which Roald Dahl character do you identify with? [web page]
- Richard Faria was a misunderstood talent who crossed the beatnik-hippie divide. [web page]
- If you haven't read War and Peace, here are ten things you should know. [web page]
- A Game of Thrones surprise will occur in the novels, not on television, according to George RR Martin. [web page]
- Is the recipient of the TS Eliot award too young, attractive, and Chinese? [web page]
