Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matthew Fraser 🇪🇺

Another book title mentioned as "blowing up" on TikTok is Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. A film version is coming to Netflix. https://t.co/Cwycj8mxJA

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After reading a New York Times profile of American romance novelist Colleen Hoover, who sells millions of copies and tops bestseller lists, I decided to buy and read one of her books. I chose her novel, Verity. I'm a couple chapters in. It's not going well, I'm afraid.

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@mvenk82 @washingtonpost The book Uncle Tom's Cabin was widely considered an anti-slavery novel and had a major influence on the abolitionist movement in America before the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln read and admired both the novel and its author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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We will soon learn that Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been expurgated and rewritten to avoid offending 21st century sensibilities.

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@WhitStillman The advert is over hyped. Note it says the “site”, not the house. It was the site of the rectory where she grew up (her father was rector) but the house was later demolished. Also, the novels listed were published after Jane Austen and her family moved away from the rectory.

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Edgar Allan #Poe’s 1841 story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, arguably the first detective fiction, contains many tropes now considered standard to the genre. https://t.co/O9m5WfYGER #CrimeFiction

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My current reading: Billy Summers by Stephen King, about a hitman with a literary taste for Zola, especially his book Thérèse Raquin (a crime novel about adultery and murder). Billy Summers has received rave reviews in France, my interest was piqued by @josavigneau on the radio.

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Peak insanity in our irrational culture of censoring and banning. Among books banned from libraries in a Texas school district: Anne Frank’s diary, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and... the Bible. https://t.co/qQeD6vQMde

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In 1925, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was published. The book was a commercial disappointment and vanished into oblivion until it was rediscovered in the 1950s. The top-selling novel of 1925 was... Soundings, by A. Hamilton Gibbs.

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How a book can launch a political career: JD Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy (published by Harper) was a bestseller and Netflix film, now the author is on his way to the US Senate. He once criticised Trump, now they're getting on like a house on fire. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/03/donald-trump-backed-candidate-jd-vance-wins-ohio-senate-republican-primary?CMP=share_btn_tw

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