https://stephencox.co.uk/

If you think Amazon is overmighty, my Crooked Medium books also available on Kobo (eBook) and from me, and those sold by me and my local bookshop are printed by Bookvault.

My first two are also available not from Amazon: in UK print, direct from me seriously discounted.

#books #SFF #Victorian #reading #indie #read #reading

I've read some INCREDIBLE novels this year, and I share my favourites of them here for inspiration. All of these are life changing master pieces:

- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
- Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels
- Clarice Lispector - Agua Viva
- Virginia Woolf - The Waves

#literature #reading #books #thelibrary

What if you could fight book bans by buying a book?

https://www.charity-opus.com/shop/p/stephen-graham-jones-horror-ebook-collection #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

They want to regulate what you and your family are allowed to read - www.bookbanpetition.us

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/david-bowie-workaholic-labyrinth-at-40-oral-history/?src=longreads

#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory

"But follow an obsession long enough, and the joke changes. Excess becomes craft, even service."

In our new reading list, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Jangra celebrates the fixated:

https://longreads.com/2026/06/18/reading-list-amateur-experts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#longreads #amateurs #hobby #obession #reading #writing

No country has ever increased freedom and liberty by banning books - www.bookbanpetition.us

#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

Now I'm even more curious! Which would you choose: out of the most recent 10 books you've read, most were

#reading #books #poll

That feeling when you are struggling to read not one but two books, then open one by an author you trust, and sink into the world within two sentences.

Is there anything better?

#Reading

[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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