20+ FAIRY TALE FICTION BOOKS THAT SOUND LIKE A GOOD TIME. #Books #Reader #Readers #BookList #Fairytale
https://rissiwrites.com/2025/03/20-fairy-tale-fiction-books-that-sound-like-a-good-time.html
Just listened to @NPR It’s Been a Minute talking about the current reading crisis. A while ago I wrote a blog that put together books specifically for people who haven’t read for a while: https://ellievilakazi.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/four-books-what-to-read-when-you-have-not-read-in-a-long-time #readmorebooks #bookstodon #booklist
SOME OF THE BOOKS ON MY SPRING 2025 TBR LIST! #TopTen #BookList #TopTenList #Books #Reader #Reading
https://rissiwrites.com/2025/03/some-of-the-books-on-my-spring-2025-tbr-list.html
Hello Fediverse!
I've been working on a personal website and blog over the past few months. I'd been wanting to get back into writing for while, as well as spend more time doing web design, so it seemed like a natural combination of the two.
I've just published the second article today, my Reading List for last year. You might say that two and a half months into the year is a bit late for this, and I'd be the first to agree, but better late than never goes the saying.
https://formularsumo.co.uk/articles/2025/reading-list-2024/
Last month I also published the first new(ish) entry, an article giving a fairly broad overview of the different forms of encryption, and why and when they should be used.
https://formularsumo.co.uk/articles/2025/encryption/
Enjoy!
The Torrents of Spring
Just finished reading Torrents of Spring the 1872 novella by Ivan Turgenev. It is partly autobiographical, centering on a young Russian landowner who falls in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt.
TEN OF THE BOOKS THAT HAVE FLASHBACKS. How many of these #Books have you read? #TopTenList #BookList #TopTen
https://rissiwrites.com/2025/03/ten-of-the-books-that-have-flashbacks.html
Finished #reading the fascinating #novella #TheDaylighGate, #author #JeanetteWinterson's retelling of the #PendleWitchTrials of 1612 in England, when 12 men + women were charged with the murders of 10 people by the use of #witchcraft. Winterson reimagines this world adding passion + magic to the sad + tragic events of that time.
Statue is #AliceNutter, the central character in Winterson's story
SOME OF THE BOOKS I READ (BUT DIDN’T EVER REVIEW). #TopTen #BookList #TopTenTuesday #Books #Reader #Reading
https://rissiwrites.com/2025/02/some-of-the-books-i-read-but-didnt-ever-review.html
#Bookthreads #booksky 
#bookstodon TCL's Spell the Month in Books #20 - February 2025! Find out which books I picked to spell out the month of February 2025! Thanks again to Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks for this fun, monthly #booklist #meme #SpelltheMonth
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/02/09/tcls-spell-the-month-in-books-20-february-2025/
Also, this intro to #booklist review of an adult Korean book rings true:
"Amidst contemporary challenges ranging from daily chaos to genocidal war, more books featuring quotidian places transformed into restorative havens are hitting shelves, featuring cafés, libraries, shops, and, more recently, laundromats, where troubled souls can get refreshed."
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Yeonnam-Dongs-Smiley-Laundromat/Kim-Jiyun/9781639368037
1/5 
Empty the Pews by Chrissy Stroop, Lauren O'Neil
As one who's struggled to define my 30+ church yrs as abuse or no (& cult or no, while we're here), I like this description -- "an eating disorder of the soul."
P111 "I wouldn't say being raised Christian was necessarily abusive either, but surely there's something wrong...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/empty-the-pews-stories-of-leaving-the-church-chrissy-stroop/14398729
@bookstodon
#books #reading #bookcommunity #booklist #exchristian #exchurchofchrist #nonfiction #EmptyThePews
I just finished By the Sea - a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2001. It is the Zanzibar born writer's sixth novel and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
By the Sea is a complex tale narrated by two men who have immigrated to Britain. As they reveal their individual stories the reader sees how their lives have been deeply and tragically connected. Not an easy read , but for me well worth the effort.
Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son
As a big fan of Fiddler on the Roof, I decided I should read the original Tevye stories. First published in 1894, Tevye 'tells' Aleichem the tales of his family, focusing on six of his seven daughters, Tzeitel, Chava, Hodel, Shprintze, Taybele, and Bielke. I was surprised by how different these tales proved to be from musical.
But the highlight here is the delightful adventures of the 'orphan' Motl in Aleichem's unfinished novel Motl and the Cantor's Son. These tales take us on the journey from poverty in the Shtetl, across Europe to the promise land of America. Motls' take on life is endearing and funny. I am amazed that these stories have never made it to film!
Just finished James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain ... Recently realized that I had never read anything by him and figured it was time to correct that!
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Just finished the 1994 novel "Paradise" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Zanzibar born author takes us into the world of colonial Africa - A coming of age story filled with fascinating characters of differing backgrounds, each with a mysterious past that, once revealed will lead the main character to a surprising decision ...
Finished OE Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth - The Norwegian American author's novel on pioneer life in the Dakota Territory based on the experiences of his, and his wife's own families.
This book was absolutely dependent on the last few pages as to how I would feel about it ... For me, almost any other ending would have left me frustrated by the journey the story took.
As a young child growing up in Virginia, Willa Cather heard her family telling and retelling a story about a young enslaved woman who made her way to Canada with the help of the slave owner’s abolitionist daughter. Sapphira and the Slave Girl was Cather’s final novel, published in 1940, and based and that story she overheard as a child.
Cather, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Our Own in 1923, passed away in 1947 at the age of 73.
Finished the novel The Secret Chord (2015) by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks - The story of biblical King David told from the point of view of the prophet Nathan.
Certainly a page turner …
