WWRD 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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The Book of Goose
Yiyun LiWWRDYiyun Li has won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for The Book of Goose ~ "... a dazzling, conventions-defying, nuanced novel”—Emily Temple @lithub https://t.co/TCNXB7ZSW0 https://t.co/o1Zcjxh8Dn
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray NaylerWWRD[How to speak octopus] Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea": What if the first alien intelligences we encountered were already living with us on Earth? This near-future novel of ideas wittily explores the nature of consciousness—Steven Poole @guardian https://t.co/3sARR4ZEwQ https://t.co/AWWcHnohAU
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Andy ClarkWWRDThe Experience Machine by Andy Clark [review] – how our brains really work, according to the theory of predictive processing—Stephen Poole @guardian https://t.co/PJotwxMkfU https://t.co/Zad2xdIVIs
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges
Stuart KlawansWWRD[Essay Review: Klawans, “Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges”] ~ For the filmmaker and master of the screwball comedy, how we presented ourselves was far more interesting than our inner feelings—Rachel Syme @NewYorker https://t.co/Pjs6z3c97R https://t.co/eYViueFtHS
Paperback, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael LewisWWRDExpertise Unheeded: George Scialabba reviews Michael Lewis, "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story" ~ "The problem with the CDC was precisely its prestige: it was determined to say or do nothing that might endanger its reputation" @inferencereview https://bitly.com/3l8myyi https://t.co/kIkEp1GNkl
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Middlemarch
George EliotWWRDWhere to start with: George Eliot ~ "Her uplifting and melancholy masterpieces include Middlemarch – but you can enjoy funny, wise stories that are less than 800 pages long too"—Clare Carlisle @guardian https://t.co/gKN8quLnPp https://t.co/saqDuF2QU0
Paperback, 2003
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Long Way Down
Jason ReynoldsWWRDThe 2022 Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards Include a First Graphic Novel: The graphic edition of Jason Reynolds’ ‘Long Way Down’ has illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff. @pubperspectives https://bit.ly/3y0ZLej https://t.co/zk64qtQHrF
Paperback, 2019
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Healer of the Water Monster
Brian YoungWWRDCCBC Book of the Week: Brian Young, Healer of the Water Monster—Cooperative Children's Book Center https://bitly.com/2Zh5M8P https://t.co/iYMskzHQUQ
Paperback, 2022
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
Emily St John MandelWWRDA Totally Normal Interview With Writer Emily St. John Mandel: Just asking the Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility author what she’s been up to this year, that’s all—Dan Kois @Slate https://t.co/0AcT0vDk0l https://t.co/6ckOBvmzcm
Paperback, 2015
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The World According to Color: A Cultural History
James FoxWWRDThe big idea: why colour is in the eye of the beholder ~ We might think the sky is blue and trees are green, but the truth is rather stranger—Essay by James Fox, author of the new book "The world according to color: a cultural history" @guardian https://t.co/cksYCdsC1n https://t.co/eC9qxGDNen
Hardcover, 2022
$31.00$15.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book