#Book

It's time for the Iliad in Memes: Book 17! Now that we've had some time to get over the death of Patroclus, let's watch the action centre entirely on people
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4 months ago I made a thread about the probabilities of people starting with a simple "Hi" making a booking. It had many flaws and incomplete data so I came
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For the past five years, any cheap hack could easily become a popular political pundit just by insisting that Bernie was the only good democrat. Now that Bernie has bowed
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In fact, everyone, here’s a fun lockdown challenge. I will post signed copies of Where There’s A Will to anyone who reads five cycling books by women (that they’ve not
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One of my favorite stories by Lovecraft is called "The Picture in the House". It's short, 10 minutes, but it contains all the horror of the modern age. The narrator
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By any objective measure, Adrian Tomine is a success: from his groundbreaking and definitive Optic Nerve comic to his work in the @NewYorker, Tomine is a great and influential artist;
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I’m going to read Shadow and Bone and live reacting to it and I’m going to tag the thread with #sab so blacklist that if you don’t want to see
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Sometimes you have conversations that just stick with you. In 2006, I went to lunch with @EricFlint at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim; we got to talking about
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As an intellectual exercise, @JimRainey10 recently shared the idea of focusing in on one book to be shared at each rank of the military to help them on their intellectual
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Reading The Lincoln Del Cookbook by Wendi Zelkin Rosenstein & Kit Naylor from 2017. My sister found this at @ilikeyoumpls & gave it to me for my birthday. Millie and
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Completely random question thread — a big, long list of questions that I want my friends/followers to answer 1. First and foremost, how old are you? 2. What's your
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Did Sargent commission this article for the @washingtonpost from Bezos?!? The "conservative in a Midwest diner" approach to outlier library patrons is so blatantly skewed it's comical. #EbooksForAll https://www.washingtonpost.com/techno
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big yikeshttps://twitter.com/summeranne/status/1258794648237113354 I'm not the biggest Marie Kondo fan in the world or anything but the amount of people - smart people! - who misunderstand what she actually recommends people
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A fun! interesting! informative! thread on the history and evolution of handmade book covers But first! A brief background and history of how exactly books came to be in the
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Let me get back to my books. Using this time to actually finish shit I would stunt with in public to strike up conversations with strangers/for image as opposed to
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Hi! It’s @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week.Today, we’re moving on from Ethiopian diplomacy with late medieval Latin Europe to see how this connects to local Ethiopian history & particularly
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