ADO Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Susan SontagADO“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.” ― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Paperback, 2009
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Devil Finds Work: An Essay
James BaldwinADO¿Por qué James Baldwin ha sido tan poco traducido al español? ¿Qué dice esto del mercado editorial hispano? Intento buscar traducciones de sus libros con ensayos, como el del cine ("The Devil Finds Work"); mas nada de nada.
Paperback, 2011
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
2666
Roberto BolañoADORoberto Bolaño’s “2666” is as as American as April in Arizona, as well as Latin American as “Rayuela” and “Cien años de soledad”. Therefore: more *American* than Pynchon, Gaddis, Roth, and the usual Anglo suspects. https://t.co/6xCWqdNl0z
Paperback, 2009
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books
Tim ParksADOThere is a tension between reader and text that the translator experiences in a special way because, rewriting the text in his own language, he has to allow that tension to happen again for a new group of readers. Where I'm Reading From (Tim Parks)
Hardcover, 2015
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. DickADO“Everything in life is just for a while.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Paperback, 2011
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny OdellADO“What does it mean to construct digital worlds while the actual world is crumbling before our eyes?” Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Hardcover, 2019
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
By Night in Chile
Roberto BolañoADOAlso: "Mount Chicago" (Adam Levin's new novel) has this epigraph from Roberto Bolaño. Which comes from "By Night in Chile," a book that Bolaño intended as a letter to Chile; a novel he originally wanted to title "The Storm of Shit." https://t.co/HIBjaRkX6K
Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mount Chicago
Adam LevinADOAlso: "Mount Chicago" (Adam Levin's new novel) has this epigraph from Roberto Bolaño. Which comes from "By Night in Chile," a book that Bolaño intended as a letter to Chile; a novel he originally wanted to title "The Storm of Shit." https://t.co/HIBjaRkX6K
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dhalgren
Samuel R. DelanyADO“It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.” Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Paperback, 2001
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nineties: A Book
Chuck KlostermanADOThe 90. You did not search for what you wanted. You were told what you wanted. The Nineties: A Book (Chuck Klosterman)
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book