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📚 Leo Book Club 🦁

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ℹ️ This is the #bookcast where we chat all things #books

💬 Talk about what you've read, what you'd like to read and discuss the world of literature!

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Happy reading! 📖

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[adambarratt]

Chess books or chess e-books? Which are better?

Depending on how you approach the question, what you prioritize and what matters to you, the answer might seem clear-cut, but is it?

Article via ChessBase

[dkid14]

I need to read more about chess.

[leobooks]

Manic Monday BookCast on the go! Share all your reading chit-chat right here...

[leobooks]

Yesterday's edition:

https://inleo.io/threads/view/leobooks/re-leothreads-22aarufsk

[adambarratt]

Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ tops PEN America of books banned in schools

Jodi Picoult's “Nineteen Minutes” has topped a list compiled by PEN America of the books most often pulled from school shelves.

Article via AP News

[adambarratt]

'Maxton Hall' Book Trilogy To Be Published In English. See The Covers: EXCLUSIVE

Adapted from the German books by Mona Kasten, Prime Video's "Maxton Hall" hit No. 1 on the platform's charts and became its most-watched international original series of all time.

Article via Today.com

[dkid14]

I’ve been slacking. Give me a good autobiography I can read next?

#leobooks

[adambarratt]

You're a tennis fan? 'Open' by Agassi is a good one...

https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-3ap76pz5r

[dkid14]

open was awesome.

I read that a few years back.

I wonder if Rafa had one. I would like to read that. I’ll go look.

[adambarratt]

What/who have you read recently in terms of auto-bios? Or in general?

[dkid14]

recently Elon musk and Steve Jobs from isaacson. Loved those.

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/threads/view/monkmasters/re-adambarratt-3882h7xh5?referral=monkmasters

[darkcloaks]

Hi, @dkid14,

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[adambarratt]

Konnie Huq launches free climate crisis ebook for UK primary schools

Children for Change contains stories, poems, and illustrations from more than 80 collaborators including Jamie Oliver, Mary Portas, David Baddiel and Adam Kay

Article via The Guardian

[adambarratt]

Why nobody writes like Haruki Murakami

The Japanese writer’s 15th novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, follows a young couple who can only meet in an illusory library

Article via The Telegraph

[adambarratt]

'They think they’re doing a good thing, but they’re not' - library is under strain

Volunteers have said a “deluge” of donated books is putting their precious telephone box library at risk of closure.

Article via The Argus

[adambarratt]

Author of books that inspired 'Reagan' movie sees key comparisons between 2024 and 1980...

r. Paul Kengor, who authored the pair of books that served as inspiration for the movie "Reagan," sees similarities between the impending showdown between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris and the 1980 presidential election.

Article via Fox News

[adambarratt]

From fresh Nordic chills to Rankin’s return — the best new crime books

Rebus is behind bars, Scarpetta is back. Plus murder mysteries in South Africa, France and Georgian London...

Article via Financial Times

[adambarratt]

Anfield Road by Chris Shepherd review – from Liverpool with love

The writer and film-maker’s affection for the city of his youth shines through in this debut graphic novel about family, football and teenage dreams

Article via The Guardian

[adambarratt]

Bookshop.org and the Independent Alliance launch Books That Give initiative for Bookbanks

Bookshop.org is launching Books That Give, a charitable initiative which will see 10% of sales of select Independent Alliance titles donated to the Bookbanks charity.

Article via The Bookseller

[adambarratt]

Simon Woolf on helping authors self-publish their dream books

Having self published what turned out to be a multi award-winning book on orange wine - Amber Revolution - Simon Woolf had to step through a lot of hoops and work around the publishing system to make it happen. He now wants to pass on that knowledge and experience by helping other authors bring their dream books and projects to life.

Article via The Buyer

[adambarratt]

Read ’em and keep: The eight must-have interior design books worth a spot on your coffee table

From clean-lined purity to decadent maximalism, Adele Cardani shares the most indispensable guides for design lovers – all masterclasses in style and abundant sources of inspiration

Article via The Independent

[adambarratt]

Books on Witchcraft Boost Anne Rice's Personal Library Auction to Exceed Estimates

The recent Bonhams auction Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice featured more than 200 objects from the home and personal library of the prolific supernatural and Gothic historical fiction writer.

Article via Fine Books & Collections

[adambarratt]

Book Review: ‘Letters,’ by Oliver Sacks

Article via New York Times

[adambarratt]

10 lines from Swami Vivekanand’s books that are pure nuggets of wisdom

Swami Vivekananda's words are forms of pure wisdom. From inspiration to motivation they have it all.

Article via TimesOfIndia

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-2h7swshap?referral=adambarratt

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-61-influence-by-robert-cialdini-d14

[adambarratt]

📚 'Influence’ by Robert Cialdini

📖 The psychology of persuasion, based on six universal principles.

🎞️ One Percent Better YouTube channel give their review…