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What is the top hobby that makes you smarter? Read Books.

Yes, it is that easy: The top answer is Reading ( anything from books, news, pamphlets, online, offline, whatever, etc.). Just read man. I read on my way to and from work while I am on the train or bus. 30 minutes on my way to work and 30 minutes on my way back 5 days per week.

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If you want a smarter kid, teach your child to read as early as possible and instill in them a love for books. Because as soon as they can read, they can teach themselves. And that will be a life-long advantage over their peers who don’t have that same ability.

He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

I will be listing the books that I read on this page, starting with the most recent ones.

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  • When Breath Becomes Air.

    By Dr. Paul Kalanithi 

     

    This book brought me to tear. Dr Paul Kalanithi was one of the top resident neurosurgeon in the universe and as he was about to finish his residency, he was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 36. He later died 2 years later. He found the courage and strength to write this book while being terminally ill, and oh boy he wrote it beautifully. He described his life, his battle with cancer, his near death experience, his success and failure as Neurosurgeon resident and husband in an elegant and beautiful way. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE who wants a real life description of the intersection of sciences, medicine, literature, near death experience, critical illness, cancer, etc. 

     

     

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  • Idea Man: A memoir by the cofounder of Microsoft.
    By Paul Allen

     

    If you love technology and pro sports, you will love this book. This is one of my favourite autobiographies. Paul Allen describe how he grew up in Seattle area, meeting Bill Gates at LakeSide private school, hacking and coding for extremely long hours in their teenage days using time sharing terminals back in the day; he then pivots to his Microsoft days from the beginning with MS DOS until he left the company. He then talks about his sports team (Blazers, Seahawks, Sounders) on a fan and owner standpoint. He also talks about his passion for music, and his ongoing support for scientific research. Fascinating… Read it now. 
  • The INNOVATORS

    By Walter Isaacson 

     

    The Geography of Genius The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014) is a nonfiction book written by Walter Isaacson. The book details the history of the digital revolution through several pivotal innovators who created early computer breakthroughs and later larger systems like the Internet. The author also asserts that many innovators’ successes throughout history happen often with the help of other contributors via teamwork. This book also delves into the topic of artificial intelligence, the founder being British computer science pioneer Alan Turing.[1][2]The Innovators is an overview from the beginning of computer science to the present, and seeks to understand the results of human-machine symbiosis.[3] Innovators covered in the book include these: Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, John Mauchly, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce of Intel, Bill Gates and Paul Allen of Microsoft, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs of Apple, Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Page of Google, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, and Lee Felsenstein of Osborne. 

     

     

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  • The intelligent investor

    by Benjamin Graham 

     

    The intelligent investor The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.[1] This sentiment was echoed by other Graham disciples such as Irving Kahn and Walter Schloss.
  • The Geography of Genius

    By Eric Weiner 

     

      Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss, as he journeys from Athens to Silicon Valley—and throughout history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
  • Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works

    By Adam Lashinsky 

     

    Inside Apple INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.
  • How Google Works.

    The rules for success in the Internet Century.
    By Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle 

     

    How Google Works. HOW GOOGLE WORKS is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.
  • Tech Titans

    Steve Jobs in his own words.
    edited by George Beahm 

     

    Tech Titans Full-color series-six bios in one! It takes more than one person to bring about change and innovation. Explore the lives of the people who have had a huge impact on technology today
  • Steve Jobs

    by Walter Isaacson 

     

    Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
  • I, Steve.

    Steve Jobs in his own words.
    edited by George Beahm

     

    I, Steve. Drawn from more than three decades of media coverage—print, electronic, and online—this tribute serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable to their business, regardless of size.
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

    by Ashlee Vance (Author) 

     

    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”
  • The Warren Buffett Way

    by Robert G. Hagstrom 

     

    The Warren Buffett Way. Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor
  • Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too

    by The Motley Fool (Author), LouAnn Lofton (Author) 

     

    Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too Investing isn’t a man’s world anymore—and the provocative and enlightening Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl shows why that’s a good thing for Wall Street,the global financial system, and your own personal portfolio
  • Dreams from my father

    by Barack Obama (Author) 

     

    Dreams from my father Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by Barack Obama, who would later be elected U.S. President, that chronicles the events of his early years up until his entry into law school in 1988. Dreams from My Father was first published in 1995 as Obama was preparing to launch his political career in a campaign for Illinois Senate,[1] five years after being elected as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.[2] 

     

     

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  • My American Journey

    by Colin Powell (Author) 

     

    My American Journey “A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK.”
    –The New York Times Book Review
    Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history–Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm–but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier’s directness.
    MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders, General Powell’s passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, “the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers” inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision.
    “The stirring, only-in-America story of one determined man’s journey from the South Bronx to directing the mightiest of military forces . . . Fascinating.”–The Washington Post Book World
    “Eloquent.”
  • Tap Dancing to Work – Warren Buffet on practically everything, 1966-2012 By Carol Loomis

     

    Tap Dancing to Work Tap Dancing to Work compiles six decades of writing on legendary investor Warren Buffett, from Carol Loomis, the reporter who knows him best.Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable – and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat.When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor – nor that she and Buffett would quickly become close personal friends.As Buffett’s fortune and reputation grew, Loomis used her unique insight into Buffett’s thinking to chronicle his work for Fortune, writing and proposing scores of stories that tracked his many accomplishments – and his occasional mistakes.Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett’s investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy, and even parenting.Scores of Buffett books have been written, but none can claim this combination of trust between two friends, the writer’s deep understanding of Buffett’s world, and a long-term perspective.Carol Loomis, 82, is at Editor-At-Large at Fortune magazine, where she has worked since 1954. She has written extensively on Warren Buffett since 1966 and is well known as the business journalist on closest terms with him. For the past 35 years she has edited Buffett’s famous and eagerly-awaited annual letter to the shareholders of Berkshire-Hathaway. Loomis’ many honours include the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for business journalism and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
  • Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill

     

    Any Known Blood Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acclaimed and unexpectedly funny novel is the story of a man seeking himself in the mirror of his family’s past. Rich in historical detail and gracefully flowing from the slave trade of nineteenth-century Virginia to the present, Any Known Blood gives life to a story never before told, a story of five generations of a black Canadian family whose tragedies and victories merge with the American experience.
  • The Big Short by Michael Lewis

    Inside the doomsday machine. 

     

    The Big Short by Michael Lewis The Big Short describes several of the main players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–08. The book also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the market or goes against the grain.

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Log in to your Google account which has purchased ebooks associated with it.

From the My Books tab, click on the Kebab menu associated with the book that you want to download and select Download EPUB.

E-book pricing in both the Kindle store and the iBook store is a result of each company’s respective/preferred distribution model: wholesale vs. agency.

Amazon has historically offered large discounts on Kindle e-book editions to draw in readers and build the Kindle market. With Kindle sales, Amazon took the ‘loss leader‘ route, wherein a product is sold at or below cost to stimulate other sales or build unbeatable market share [1]. Throughout most of the early days of the Kindle store, Amazon purchased e-book rights from publishing companies at wholesale value (e.g., the same as a print edition) and then sold the Kindle edition at a steep discount.

Publishers worried that once Amazon controlled both the content distribution (Kindle edition) and content devices (Kindle), the company would be able to dictate e-book prices. Thus, publishers were desperate for a viable alternative to the Kindle store, as Amazon had quite successfully shaped public perception of how much an eBook should cost: around $9.99. Enter: Apple, Inc. When whispers of an iTunes for books started circulating, members of the publishing industry referenced the iPad as the ‘Jesus Tablet’ for ‘saving’ the publishing industry. The specific mechanism of salvation was to be the ‘agency model’ for e-books, where publishers set the price, with distribution handled by arguably the world’s most successful company at the time (2009 – 2011).

At its outset, the iBook store selection was slightly more expensive mainly due to Apple’s use of the agency model for content distribution. Publishers made the prices more expensive, for the following reasons (I’m speculating):


  1. Apple received a guaranteed cut of every purchase, necessitating a higher price for iBooks to ensure equitable returns for publishers on par with Amazon.
  2. To raise the public perception of the ‘cost’ of an eBook.
  3. To establish an alternative to Amazon’s Kindle store.

In 2010, Amazon struck deals with the major publishing houses to adopt the agency model, so price differences in both stores will be largely negligible for major titles put out by the big publishing houses. For any publishing house that doesn’t have an agency model deal with Amazon, though, the Kindle titles will probably be cheaper than the iBook version.

Caveats:

  • This answer is largely about the US e-book market.
  • In mid-2010, Amazon and Sony adopted the Agency model with a lot of the larger US publishers. See http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/04/e-book-prices-to-rise-as-amazon-sony-adopt-agency-model.ars and http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704197104575051553263647896.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_business.

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[1] Publisher’s Weekly

Google Play eBooks are typically protected with Adobe DRM using what is called vendorID to encrypt them (that is, they are using your Google ID instead of asking you to create a separate Adobe ID as other vendors do). That is simpler for you since you don’t need to create such additional ID, but locks you into using the Google Books app (strictly speaking it is actually possible to use other reading apps which support vendorID, but that would get a bit too technical and out of the scope of this answer).

The Apple iBooks app can open ePUB and PDF files but does not support Adobe’s DRM encryption in any way, so it will import the file but won’t be able to open it (you won’t even be able to see the cover).

You must install the Google Books app and jump from one app to the other in order to read the books you might have acquired from each vendor (Google or Apple). If you also buy from Amazon, that mean you’ll have to install a third app (Kindle), and a fourth for Kobo, and so on. Absurd, I know. I’m afraid that most publishers and eBook retailers don’t give a damm about interoperability and customer convenience, which is the reason we started Nimbooks.

You’ll see some answers with “advice” about removing DRM and thus being able to transfer the eBook files with ease. While such is technically feasible, please be aware that just owning the tools to do so (even more if you use them) is fundamentally a felony in most countries. Take your decision but be informed about the fact.

Google Play Books is ranked 11th while Amazon Kindle is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Google Play Books is: Google Play Books offers many options while reading such as bookmarks, highlights and notes.

Is Kindle or Apple books better?

Amazon Kindle has a far greater range of titles but Apple Books look better. That’s it. We tend to prefer the look of Apple’s Books enough that we check out Apple’s store before we go to Amazon’s — but the range of Kindle books is unmatched.

 

Quite interestingly, the question’s title and the question’s summary are actually two different questions:

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  1. Is it better to buy a Kindle book or book from the iBook store?
  2. Does the iBooks App or Kindle App provide better functionality for reading on the iPad?

As for the first, my advice is that you should undoubtedly buy “Kindle” books. When you buy a “Kindle” book you’re actually buying an eBook from Amazon, i.e. a company that has built its own business starting as an (“the”) online bookstore. Apple has overbearingly entered in the eBook business with the iBook, not so differently from what Microsoft did with the Internet Explorer in 1995, but the core business of Apple is primarily based on devices (hardware), whilst Amazon is primarily e-commerce (software and delivery). Sure, both have extended their business far beyond that, both offers a great services and both sells devices and media contents. With iTunes, Apple have a solid anchorage on the Music (and now Movies and TV) market, and the Kindle offers an incomparably more comfortable experience than an iPad (more on this subject: Which is better for reading ebooks: Kindle or iPad? Which overall reading experience is better? How do the experiences compare?); but as Apple will never stop improving the device experience, Amazon will never stop improving reading experience.
The Kindle app is free and available for most major smartphones, tablets (both iOS and Android) and computers (both Mac and Windows). That means you can buy a Kindle book once and read it on any device, keeping in sync your furthest page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across all your devices. Amazon will do its best to make this reading experience always not bound to a specific device, because the Kindle device is for Amazon what the iBook app is for Apple. iBook is available only on Apple devices, and that says it all. Once you buy a book on the Apple Store, you’ll stay forever handcuffed to Apple devices. Don’t make this mistake!

As for the second question, much depends on which device you are actually reading, on the kind of books you’re reading, on what are your reading needs and, last but non least where and when do you read. So this answer may be very articulate. I’ll give you only some inklings hoping you’ll grasp the idea. If you read for an hour or more, the weight and size of the device is one of the more important feature of the device, and in this case a Kindle Paperwhite is better than an iPad mini, which in turns is better than an iPad Air. But if you read sitting on a desk, the weight is irrelevant and a large screen is better, I would prefer reading on a Mac Retina than on a Kindle. When reading a magazine or a book with many photos, a Kindle is very poor choice, because you need to tap and scroll the illustrations instead of using the pinch and pan gestures. The same holds true for book with large and complex illustrations, unless you’re reading on a beach or in the dark. Even if the iPad retina definition is unsurpassed, you simply cannot read a book under direct sunlight, but with surely will with a Kindle Paperwhite.
One last consideration is about your annotations and highlighting needs: on a Kindle Paperwhite highlighting text is very annoying (and monochromatic), it certainly works better on the Kindle for iPad, but I would prefer to use iBook or even better a PDF content on the Acrobat Reader, which has very good tools for this purpose.

In short I would prefer DRM-free content whenever is available, otherwise I’ll buy eBooks from Amazon or directly from the publisher website in Kindle format — many publishers have the option to link to your Amazon account and to upload the book directly on all your Kindle and Kindle apps — but I still prefer PDFs for any technical or scientific content or anything I need to study, and I’ll use the Acrobat Reader app on iPad for studying and highlighting, and the Mac if I need to make frequent annotations.
And, oh, I don’t even remember what stuff do I have on my iBook.

 
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Depends. Do you mean fiction author, or author generally?

If you mean fiction author, that probably goes to William Shakespeare, though apparently Agatha Christie’s heirs claim she’s the best-selling author of all time.

If you mean any work, fiction or nonfiction, say hello to Chairman Mao:

The leader of China’s Communist party was incredibly prolific, and his books have sold billions—with a B—of copies.

Kind of like the signs on McDonalds, the numbers eventually just got so stupidly big they don’t bother to keep track any more.

What does “most published” mean? Do you mean “published the highest number of different books,” or do you mean “published the largest number of copies of their books”?

If you mean “most published” in the sense of “has the most copies in circulation,” that honor belongs to Chairman Mao, whose little red book has sold literally billions (yes, with a B) of copies.

What are the processes to publish a book and find publishers for it, and what are the formalities that are needed to be done along with it?

I usually tell people about agentquery.com It’s a great resource for authors.
You can search agents by genre and the site gives you all sorts of useful information like the agent’s submission guidelines and what sort of chocolate to send in order to bribe them.
Okay, the website doesn’t really tell you about agents’ favorite chocolate, but it should. If I was an agent, that’s the first thing I’d have listed there.

Anyway, here is the checklist I should give people before they submit anything.

1) Have you read any books on writing? If the answer is no, you’re not ready to submit. If the answer is yes, but you’ve only read one or two, you’re also probably not ready to submit. Writing is like playing the piano. Most people who are self-taught are not going to be all that good at it.

Here are some great writing books for novelists:

Self-editing for Fiction Writers by Browne and King
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain
Scene & Structure by Jack Bickham (Actually anything by Jack Bickham)
GMC Goal, Motivation, and Conflict by Deborah Dixon (You need to go to the publisher’s website for this one.)
Anything by Gary Provost
Character and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card

If you write non-fiction or picture books, get and read the books that pertain to those genres. Ditto for romance books, westerns, whatever. Blogs on writing are also very helpful. For example, if you need to write an action scene involving angry grapefruit, you’ll want to read my last blog.

2) How many times have you gone over the manuscript yourself?

If the answer is twice, you’re not ready to submit. For first time novels, you need to send that baby out to lots of readers for critiques. Don’t just send it to your mom or friends. They’ll tell you that it’s great–and they might even believe it. After all, they love you. You need to have a network of fellow writers or well-read friends that can give you tough love. If you don’t have that, pay for it. Revising is the difference between selling and not selling.

3) How long have you let the manuscript sit, unread?

If it’s only a few days or a couple of weeks, you’re not ready to submit. One of the truly weird things about writing is that you can’t see your own mistakes when you write them. This goes for missing words but it also applies to unclear dialogue, bad description, etc. The story works beautifully in our minds, and so that’s what we see on the paper. Let your manuscript sit for a month. Two or three months is better. (Which is why it’s great to send a manuscript to an editor and then not get the revision letter for a couple of months. By that time you can look at it with fresh eyes.)

4) Have you ever gone to a writers’ workshop or conference?

If not, why not? If you want to publish you probably should go to a conference that addresses your genre. You’ll meet people who know about the industry. You’ll get advice from pros, and you’ll get tips about what’s selling and what’s not. If paranormal is a hard sell (which it is right now, by the way) and you’re pitching your paranormal romance, you may run into problems. Not knowing why something is rejected is one of the most frustrating things about this business. Stay up to date about what’s going on.

Besides, a good writers’ conference will energize you. That’s why people go back year after year.

Often you’ll be able to meet agents and get a feel if they would be a good fit for you.

After you’ve done these things, start researching agents. When you find some you think would work, look at their submission guidelines. This is a good time to learn how to write a query letter. (You can find how-tos and examples online.)

You’ll need to submit to a lot of agents. Some won’t even bother answering you. Don’t take it personally. A lot will also reject you right off because they’re not looking for new clients or they’re looking for a certain type of book and yours doesn’t fit that mold. Again, don’t take it personally. Hopefully, you’ll get some requests for pages, and then an offer of representation.

Agents send your manuscript to publishers.

Choose wisely. I tell new authors to keep in mind that the advance the publisher offers may be the only money they see. If you worked on your book for a thousand hours (and yes, some of my books have taken me that long) and you receive a 2,000 advance (and yes, some publishers will offer this little—or less) then you may only get paid 2.00 an hour for your work.

Don’t take that deal.

Happy submitting!

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What are the best ways for authors to get publishers?

First, find publishers who are publishing the kind of book you just wrote.

Find the ones accepting unsolicited manuscripts.

Find their Submissions Guidelines on their website. Follow them to the letter. This is your first test. If you can’t be arsed to follow a simple set of instructions, the last thing they need to do is waste their time trying to work with you. Editors do not swan around an office drinking cups of tea and eating bonbons. Editors work 12 hour days, trying to cram everything they need to do into their day.

Send your manuscript. Do not send it to more than one publisher at a time. You will be rejected automatically if the publisher discovers you have done this, even if they want to buy the book. Why? Because no editor wants to get into a bidding war over some unknown writer when there are twelve more just as good he can offer the standard contract to. The only person who can submit a manuscript to more than one publisher is an agent, because agents are acknowledged as experts at being able to recognize a hot property.

So, you have sent it in. Let me explain the process here.

Generally someone like a secretary goes through them and rejects certain things automatically. (Believe me, I am not making this up) Things like manuscripts with illustrations, manuscripts handwritten, written in crayon, written on a yellow legal pad, written on one long continuous scroll, or basically manuscripts that don’t conform to the formatting. Also automatically rejected are books based on someone else’s creation, whether that be a movie, a comic, a TV series, or another book or book series. No one will ever buy your book based on someone else’s creation.

Then they sit there until the First Reader gets to them. There may be more than one First Reader. They are generally someone the editor trusts, who shares the editor’s taste. This, by the way, is not a job you can apply for. The First Readers are all salaried people who look at manuscripts in their downtime. The First Reader reads the synopsis and the first page. That weeds out a lot. Then he reads the first chapter. That weeds out more. Then he reads the first three chapters and the last chapter. If the manuscript passes all that, he takes it home and reads the whole thing. If it still passes muster it goes to an assistant editor where it goes through the whole process, and finally to the editor.

Always remember this mantra: Publishers are not in the business to publish books; like any other business, they are in this business to make money. Thirty or forty years ago, editors could publish niche books they really believed in, knowing that the others would make up for the losses on the oddball books. Not any more. Publishing companies are now owned by media conglomerates, and editors are under incredible pressure to make every book pay off.

You have two options here if you get a rejection letter. You can rewrite your book, or you can try somewhere else. If you keep getting the same reaction, then your only option is going to be a rewrite or self-publishing.

But I can absolutely guarantee you that if your writing is any good it will always take about a year for you to get an answer.

And never, ever say “I’ll never submit to X again!” That’s just cutting off your own foot. Admit gracefully that you didn’t write a book that fit what they were looking for at the time and move on. They didn’t insult your firstborn child. The book just wasn’t what they were looking for and they had the courtesy to give you a short answer why.

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Traditional Book publishing: The complete process

There are ghostwriting service agencies, such as Ghost Writer, Inc., that do everything you need: ghostwrite, edit, publish and market. But there are several of these you can easily find online.

And so I suggest you research as many of them as you see fit to explore. Find the services and pricing you need to fulfill your publishing and marketing needs. I also suggest premarketing your book manuscript before it is finished.

Build up a ready audience for your published book. Then, complete it through professional ghostwriting services and have it either self or commercially published. To secure commercial publication success, you can have the ghostwriting service prepare a nonfiction book proposal or a fiction package of documents, including a query letter. Then you send these out to a list of legitimate literary agents or agencies, until you land one of them. It is their job to in turn land you a proper book publisher.

However, it is a good idea, before you actually finish preparing your book manuscript, to do plenty of pre-marketing. You can hire a service such as a ghostwriting services agency or company to do this for you, for a decent price. This is to build up your audience for the book.

You want to have lots of potential readers waiting, and to pre-order copies of your book, before it is published and sold. This is a great modern strategy to vastly increase your audience potential, and to increase book sales too. Another couple of things: create a book sales website. You will sell copies of your book directly (through the publisher, of course) to your adoring public with your own book sales website. Be sure to keep a fan page with a button to your Amazon site for book sales. Have an ebook and a print book version of your book, preferably also a hardback and a softcover edition.

And go to various free sites online, such as Authors Den, Goodreads, Wattpad and others, and list your book there. You can pay for some services, but many of them are for free. Another good place to advertise your book is Where the Writers Go to Write (Poetry, Stories, Contests and more!) – there are lots of things you can do on your own to promote your book sales. Source: https://qr.ae/pvP270

Yes, the Kindle e-reader is worth buying if you love reading in general. The following can be perks of using a Kindle. 

  • Saves paper – The very logo of Kindle is indicative of the greatest perk of using a kindle. You get to save more than a tree because you are reading a paper-less version of a book. It is an undeniable truth that trees get cut to produce paper, but an e-version of the book helps you save paper, and hence a forest itself. Order a refurbished kindle here.
  • Easy to carry – I frequently travel between cities, usually by road which means I’ll have time to kill during the travel. I’d always prefer reading to any other mode of passing time, but Kindle helps me pretty much because it is a mobile-library in which I’ve hand-picked all books I’d love to read.
  • Reading after lights out – With paper-backs or hardbound books, the reading is limited to only day-time as switching on the light when there are others asleep in the room would be unkind. The Kindle device has controls for the brightness and what more! Reading doesn’t hurt the eyes.
  • the GOTO and SEARCH options- There is this GOTO option which helps you go to any part of the book whenever you wish. You can always come back to where you are elegantly. You can also search for a given word which looked interesting when you it a few minutes ago. The search option locates the word and you can enjoy reading twice as much.
  • Font size and font style: I have a habit of posting pictures of whatever lines I love reading. The adjustable font-size and font-style options help me do it. This is a recent picture from A Clash of Kings .

This is an older picture from A Game of Thrones

  • In built Dictionary – Archaic words used as part of the book you are reading can be deciphered. I was reading A Game of Thrones , the first book in the series of A Song of Ice and Fire by GRR Martin. I could appreciate GRR Martin’s extravagant vocabulary better since I had used a Kindle device to read it.
  • For example, have a look at the following images from GOOGLE.

A:

B:

C:

D:

E:

F:

GRR Martin uses a different word to denote each of the above animals. I would have been less happy if he had used just the word HORSE for each of them. Yes all of them are horses. But their special names are as follows.

A: Garron – A Highland Pony

B: Palfrey – A Horse used usually by women for ordinary riding.

C: Gelding – A castrated male horse

D: Destrier – A war horse

E: Mare – A female horse

F: Stallion – A male horse which has not been castrated.

I would have never looked up the Dictionary for the first four words (I’m a lazy reader) , but Kindle gives me the definition at the tap of the screen.

  • The Thuglife – It makes you look cool as a thug or a bad-ass when you can use your kindle device all-day. This happens when I travel for 10–20 hours at a stretch by train. Co-passengers pass their time on their smartphones, which eventually lose charge or make the eyes feel strained. The Kindle doesn’t lose charge easily and helps you read for longer periods of time. That makes you live the THUGLIFE.

Cheers!!!

5,000 copies.

To appear in the bestseller list of the New York Times, you need to sell at least 5,000 copies in a one week period. Better to sell 10,000, just to be on the safe side.

For the Wall Street Journal’s list which is a little bit less prestigious, you need 3,000 to 5,000 sales in the same time period.[1]

Earlier this month, the Albanian language version of my book, “The Smell of War” was No.2 on Amazon Germany in the “Biographies of military leaders” category. I didn’t sell thousands of books on that day to achieve this, but “only” 98 copies.[2]

Amazon’s bestseller lists, on the other hand, are much “easier”. They are a lot like Quora’s “Most viewed writer” lists.

If you are competing in a very narrow category (what on Quora would be called a topic), you can appear in one of the many bestseller lists without that many sales.

On the other hand, when you want to hit the No. 1 spot in one of the more prestigious categories on Amazon, for example, “Mysteries” or even “Top 100 in Kindle store” you need to sell thousand of books-in a day!

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You don’t.

Cheap paper contains the seeds of its own destruction. Common paper pulp is made with hydrochloric acid, and some of the acid stays in the paper after it’s manufactured. Acid-bearing paper will turn yellow, then eventually crumble, no matter what you do, and there’s little you can do to stop it (short of extremely expensive treatments to remove or neutralize the acid). Even if you keep the paper in perfect storage environments, this happens.

The treatments that remove the acid are called “deacidification,” and they’re done in machines that look like this, using special chemicals:

You can buy special sprays you can spray onto each page of a book that will supposedly prevent acid damage, but I’m not sure how well they work. I’m frankly a little skeptical; the chemicals used in the machines are pretty potent, not things you’d want to be spraying about.

So the simple solution is “buy books printed on acid-free paper.” Acid-free paper is more expensive, though, so publishers don’t generally use it except for high-end editions, and sometimes not even then. Source: https://qr.ae/pvP2NG

There are tons of authors who have sold over a million copies. You can check out some list of the most popular best selling fiction authors of all time ranked by how well their books have sold here : The Best Selling Fiction Authors of all Time

Here are top thirteen best selling authors

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare has sold more fiction than anybody else in history, with over two million books sold. Though it would be difficult to classify Shakespeare as a novelist, he is obviously an enormously gifted, unprecedented playwright and poet.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is estimated to have sold a maximum total of two billion books. She wrote a total of 85 over the course of her lifetime. Known for her novels of murder, mystery, and the crime thriller genre, English novelist Agatha Christie has sold an astronomical number of books.

Barbara Cartland

Novelist Barbara Cartland has sold an estimated maximum of one billion books. Cartland is one of the most prolific authors of all time, having written 723 books. She is known for writing romance novels.

Harold Robbins

Harold Robins has sold an estimated maximum of 750 million books. Known for the adventure genre, Robins has published 23 books.

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon has sold an estimated maximum of 700 million books. Simenon is known for his detective novels. An almost unprecedentedly prolific author, Simenon has had 570 books published.

Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel has sold an estimated maximum of 560 million books. Steel has mastered the genre of romance. Steel is currently the best selling fiction writer alive.

Gilbert Patten

Gilbert Patten has sold a maximum estimated number of 500 million books. Patten is known for his adolescent adventure novels.

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy has sold an estimated maximum of 413 million books.

J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling has sold a maximum estimate of about 400 million books. Maybe you’ve heard of them? They are about some boy wizard named Harry Potter.

Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins has sold a maximum estimated amount of 400 million books. Known for her romance novels, Collins has had all 25 of her novels become best sellers.

Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger has sold a maximum estimated amount of 400 million books. Known for dime novels, Alger has had 135 books published.

Stephen King

Stephen King has sold an estimated maximum of 350 million books. Known for horror and fantasy, with over 70 books, King has become synonymous for modern tales of the macabre.

Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz has sold a maximum estimate of 325 million thriller books. Koontz has had over 60 books published.

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The Kindle app is just fine if you are a casual reader.

The Kindle device is useful for people who spend hours reading. The e-ink display ensures that the device doesn’t strain your eyes the way a smartphone or tablet does.

Also, when you’re reading on your Kindle device there will be no notifications from the ten different apps you have on your phone for email, messaging, and social networking. You can immerse yourself in the book and forget about the world outside.

Others have already mentioned that the device is much more ergonomic from the point of view of reading (and not watching videos/typing). So that’s that.

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2000+ Books Quiz Trivia
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  • The Problem w/ YA books
    by /u/Ectoplasmic-fungi (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 7:47 pm

    Recently I have found brilliant books with similar premises that irk my senses. These are three questions/ mild rants. 1) Why do most YA books contain romantic relationships when the protagonist(s) are/is a teenager or young adult? 2) Sticking with romance, the books I am referencing ( Illuminae trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff) all have very staked together relationships with their respective partner. It brings a rigid struggle to find ways to like their relationship. 3)The climax is rushed to mere minutes, which yes, brings anticipation and adrenaline, but it seems like a running theme for the climax to end just in the nick of time. It makes you wonder if everything leading to it was worth it. Lastly, if this is an unoriginal post- it probably is-, what concerns do you have about YA or Young Adult novels? submitted by /u/Ectoplasmic-fungi [link] [comments]

  • Red Rising the series. Wow.
    by /u/Money-Use-5309 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 5:05 pm

    What an amazing sci-fi collection, Pierce Brown really brings a universe to life, mixing past Roman ideology to a future where a breed of enhanced humans calling themselves golds have terraformed all planets in the solar system and have created a "utopia" which they call The Society. Organising different job components of what they believe to be an ideal society to a pyramid of colours i.e. gold as the peak of humanity, silvers the business managers, white as religious overseers, black as warrior giants, yellows as doctors, greens as technology experts, orange as mechanics, etc. A red working in the Mars mines finds out his gold leaders have been lying to his entire red brethren about the supposed inhabitability of Mars, forcing them to live out their days working for them underground promising that one day they will be able to inhabit the surface. After much turmoil and tragedy he makes it to the surface and joins an uprising against his gold masters. Not for the faint of heart (definitely think the books has some sensitive subjects for adult-processing only) but a real page turner. I have just finished the 4th book in the series and I am kinda sad that there is only 1 more after lol. Tl;dr: Like Hunger games but on a much bigger scale. submitted by /u/Money-Use-5309 [link] [comments]

  • The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
    by /u/Scarlet_Bard (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 5:02 pm

    This is the most important book about current events that I’ve ever read. A non-fiction work of investigative and explanatory journalism exploring how social media companies exploit some of the weak spots in our brains for money, resulting in devastating effects to individuals and entire societies. Our hardwired tendency to focus on fear, hate, outrage, and in-group vs. out-group conflict, which has served to help us survive as long as we’ve been Homo Sapien, is being monetized by the likes of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and just about all forms of social media to keep us looking at their platforms and therefore the ads placed there. The algorithms deployed by these companies, perhaps most significantly Facebook and YouTube, not only display outrage-inducing content to keep you hooked, but also shepherd users step-by-step into some of the most extreme content they have, effectively radicalizing hundreds of millions of people. The results range from isolated incidents of violence, riots and even genocide, to the erosion of democracy and civil society in general. Everyone should read this. submitted by /u/Scarlet_Bard [link] [comments]

  • What are the least shelved books you've read these last years?
    by /u/cepseudoestdejapris (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    While I appreciate Reddit's enthusiasm for Project Hail Mary and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I'd love to discover some other works that get less publicity. On Goodreads, you can find the least shelved book that you have read at this page: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/YEAR/ (where YEAR is the specific year you want to see). Here are my least shelved books for the last few years: The Hunting Gun - Yasushi Inoue A poet writes a poem published in a hunting magazine. It's about a melancholic hunter he saw in the forest once. Later he receives a letter from a guy who believes he is the melancholic hunter from the poem. He wants to explain why he looked so melancholic. In order to do that he includes three letters which he received from his niece, his wife and his wife's cousin. Numero Deux - David Foenkinos 1999, they are auditioning for the kid who will play Harry Potter. There are two kids left. The novel is about the kid who was not selected and how this event ruined his life. This book was my introduction to Foenkinos who is kinda famous in France. I found it terrible. The idea is good but the execution did not live up to expectations. The writing is mediocre and the plot is unintentionally silly. Et on tuera tous les affreux - Boris Vian Do not remember this one very well. I would recommend L'écume des jours instead, which is his most famous work. Life for sale - Yukio Mishima This is a weird one. It's nothing like other works by Mishima. A salaryman fails his suicide. When he leaves the hospital, he puts an ad in a newspaper 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.' I read it four years ago and I don't remember that well but I remember it was fun. I am pretty sure there are spies and a vampire at some point. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster Two men on a roadtrip. They play a game of poker against two rich eccentrics. They lose everything. They are forced to build a wall to pay off their debt. submitted by /u/cepseudoestdejapris [link] [comments]

  • What’s a book that unsettled you? How did it do that?
    by /u/River_Minx (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    How did it make you feel and do you still feel that way? For me it was 13 reasons why back in middle school. I remember the last couple of tapes striking a cord with me especially cause that was the first time I was introduced to what SA is. Looking back it pales in comparison to other things I’ve read but honestly it’s still one of my favorite books. So how about y’all? submitted by /u/River_Minx [link] [comments]

  • Book series that are similar though doesn't seem like it at first.
    by /u/Certified_Cichlid (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 3:55 pm

    The Ranger's Apprentice/Brotherband Chronicles to Redwall. This is because these two book series are the same genre of little to no magic fantasy and for the same reading age, as well as the same positive messages and role models. Most people recommend Warrior Cats to Redwall readers even though there isn't a lot of common ground between them other than being animal stories. As for books similar to Redwall most would go for Mouseguard since it has the same sort of goodbeast vs vermin. Like Redwall, The Ranger's Apprentice uses medieval Europe as a source material and have many characters who love food, although the food description certainly isn't as descriptive. Also like Redwall, The Ranger's Apprentice can become violent with blood, with multiple notable family-unfriendly villain deaths. submitted by /u/Certified_Cichlid [link] [comments]

  • Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities
    by /u/CharityNational1915 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 3:50 pm

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  • Sula, by Toni Morrison
    by /u/tolkienfan2759 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    I notice this book hasn't been reviewed by itself, or at least, there was nothing specific to it in the first 10 or so results of my r/books search. So here goes nothing! I was very impressed. It had been so long since I first read it that I had forgotten almost everything about it. I think what impressed me the most, though, is that Morrison seems to have the same facility Dostoevsky had, of creating innumerable distinct and distinctive characters, while at the same time doing something Dostoevsky never did, neither enumerating nor abandoning the essential insanities of any of her characters. It's been so long since I've read any Dostoevsky that I can't be more specific; but I remember one of his most impressive strengths was the ability to create an endless number of really unique characters. Morrison does that too, and more realistically and more impactfully (is impactfully a word? lol). Morrison speaks, in her author's foreword of the edition I read, of her desire to show four different types of woman as though they were "the" four most basic choices women had, in her world. I hope she wouldn't disagree with that interpretation (I've returned the book to the library, so I can't retrieve her actual words right now.) But the way she works with each "type" makes it perfectly clear that she sees how multiplicitous and chaotic each so called type is. How multiplicitous and chaotic people are. It did bother me that her favorite character, Sula herself, was pretty clearly either sociopathic or psychopathic, depending on how you interpret her motivations. (And, I guess, depending on how you understand those words. Sociopaths (I googled it) are hot-headed, and don't consider the consequences to others; psychopaths plan everything they do out, and don't consider the consequences to others.) I can't argue that such a character shouldn't be an author's favorite; but it's disturbing nonetheless. Well, I have my own insanities, as do we all. But I love the way Morrison handles her different characters, as though every one of them overflows with an endless multiplicity of perspectives, with no thought at all for whether any of the perspectives conflict or conform with any of the other perspectives. This is, I think an essential characteristic of people (and possibly animals too), and one we maybe don't appreciate as we should. Morrison certainly makes it an attractive quality. It's part of what makes her characters lovable. I won't be reading the book again any time soon; it didn't strike me as one of those, like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Lord of the Flies, that have lessons for us all that are apparently eternal (because we never learn them lol). But I would certainly recommend that anyone read it at least once. If I hadn't forgotten it so completely myself, in the last thirty years, I would say it's unforgettable. submitted by /u/tolkienfan2759 [link] [comments]

  • "Hello Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano
    by /u/bags718 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Just finished this book. I knew I was going to read it even before it was named Oprah's 100 book club selection. What a beautiful book. I feel like a better person and father for having read this book. You really feel like these characters are a part of your family by the end. I highly recommend this book. So beautiful. submitted by /u/bags718 [link] [comments]

  • I just finished The Winners by Fredrik Backman and I am just weeping on the couch. That author is so talented.
    by /u/cerebellum0 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    I think I've read all of his books now but I really think this one is my favorite. I love the way he developed these characters. He manages to tell the story of imperfect people and weaves together something beautiful. By the end of Us Against You I adored Benji, I found myself like Maya just rooting for him to live a good life. The boy with the wild eyes and big heart. Then there was Bobo, the oaf with the biggest heart. When he first spoke with Johnny in the garage I had to pause and absorbe how beautiful his proclamation of love was, without even saying that word. Wise beyond his years. During the actual final event I was led to believe that other people were shot too. I thought mumble was dead and then he casually just said he continued to play hockey. Do you think mumble should have told his story? Would they have forgiven him eventually? I'd love to hear everyone else's take on this series. It's so interesting how the people around you can bring out the best or the worst in you. submitted by /u/cerebellum0 [link] [comments]

  • Weekly FAQ Thread March 26 2023: What is your favorite quote from a book?
    by /u/AutoModerator (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    Hello readers and welcome to our Weekly FAQ thread! Our topic this week is: What is your favorite quote from a book? Please post your favorites here. You can view previous FAQ threads here in our wiki. Thank you and enjoy! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

  • Best literary dads?
    by /u/yoknapatawpha425 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 10:40 am

    In teaching high school English (American Lit), I have noticed in all the books in the curriculum, characters who are fathers are either morally gray at best (John Proctor in The Crucible, Billy Pilgrim in Slaughter House 5, Jacob Vaark in A Mercy) or outright scumbags (Tom Buchanan in Gatsby, Walt McCandless in Into the Wild). This got me thinking: who are your favorite literary dads? Hans Huberman from The Book Thief is one who is just so genuinely good-hearted, he has actually inspired me as a father (as much as a fictional character can): endlessly patient, unconditionally loving, and always willing to do the right thing. submitted by /u/yoknapatawpha425 [link] [comments]

  • Contemplation by Franz Kafka
    by /u/Cold_coffee_addict (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 10:31 am

    Just finished reading this short story…can’t get it out of my mind. The short part titled trees seems in itself contradictory. It first seems to say that people like the roots of trees are bound to something deep but in the end says that it’s only something that’s seems to be the case. What do you think of this? Also I’d also appreciate if someone could briefly summarise what they thought or analysed this short story to be A short discussion perhaps? Also in the end does the narrator succumb to death? When the narrator goes back home instead of going home it seems to me that he goes to his death. In the beginning(chapter: resolutions)he also romanticises death and quietism. I feel like the story is about how he’s leaves his home and encounters a lot of problems in his way. But, then he talks about how he’s depressed and doesn’t know what to do when he comes back home(and launches into a tangent of overthinking) submitted by /u/Cold_coffee_addict [link] [comments]

  • The Castle by Kafka
    by /u/katietatey (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 6:32 am

    Just finished this a few days ago and it's haunting me. I don't know how he does it but Kafka has that unique way of creating an immersive atmosphere of dread, terror, absurdity, and confusion all mixed up together. I know we say "Kafka-esque," but really, I don't know a good way to describe that mood that his work puts me in. It's like a dream, really. (I often have nightmares that are filled with anxiety and dread, and not necessarily scary monsters but things like tests I didn't study for or searching for missing items). The test dream is so common for me even though I finished school 20 years ago! The Castle is unfinished, and I was kind of expecting unfinished like Elizabeth Gaskill's Wives and Daughters, where the end is close but you can basically tell what's going to happen, rather than what actually happened - an abrupt ending mid-sentence like someone shot Kafka in the back. I'm still mulling it over and trying to end the story myself. If you read it, how do you think it would end? Of The Trial, The Metamorphosis, and The Castle, I think The Castle was my favorite. Remember to mark spoilers please. 🙂 submitted by /u/katietatey [link] [comments]

  • Was Douglas Adams reading Peanuts, in 1969?
    by /u/cybicle (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 6:22 am

    This series of consecutive Peanuts comic strips seems like it may have inspired The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If Adams had also chosen five for his answer, it would be undeniable. His work often alludes to other science fiction, especially Isaac Asimov, and plays on real scientific concepts and actual physics theories (such as using a cup of strong tea as a "Brownian motion generator"). In addition to the above-mentioned Peanuts comic strips, somebody could document the numerous other instances when Adams either alluded to or lampooned cultural, historical, or scientific information. submitted by /u/cybicle [link] [comments]

  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
    by /u/ThatxBritishxBoy (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 5:27 am

    Maali Almeida - a war photographer, closet queer and gambler - wakes up dead in a "waiting room" known as the afterlife. Here, he seems unable to remember the details of his death and who killed him and why. He has Seven Moons (i.e. seven days) before he can enter 'The Light" and has to contact the people he loves and lead them to the photos he took which will rock Sri Lanka. This book is layered with Sri Lanka politics and largely Hindu mythology. There are ghosts and demons galore - There is the Crow Man, The Mahakali (swallower of souls) who is constantly lurking around. Ghosts can travel around and unhappy souls can whisper evil thoughts into living people's heads. What was fascinating to me was knowing that in this novel, Animals have souls and can talk as well. The chapters are seperated into one moon each and are fairly fast-paced. There is immaculate detail in the descriptions and the world-building allows you to be fully immersed into the story. Though it can be a bit difficult to read at times due to the many stories that are occuring in the novel, I couldn't help but enjoy the dead-style exploration of Sri-Lanka's civil war. The author shows the reader the problems of Sri Lanka: government and police corruption, gang violence, state-led betrayal and more. This books contains everything. Mystery, thriller, magical realism and a vibrant critical exploration of conflict. I liked how the novel felt like a puzzle: initially confusing but then as the pieces began to align, it felt more and more connected. This is a novel that with repeated readings, you'll notice more and more. 4.5/5 submitted by /u/ThatxBritishxBoy [link] [comments]

  • The Diary of Anne Frank
    by /u/pitapiper125 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 5:03 am

    I know i read this in school but it must not have impacted me, as I didn't remember much. Re visiting this as an adult... is effing heartbreaking. It hurts so much to think of how despite everything this bright young girl was going through, knowing the horrific future that she eventually did succumb to, still remained much more optimistic than any adult ever would have. "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again." That was a month before her and her family were taken away. Breaks my goddamn heart. submitted by /u/pitapiper125 [link] [comments]

  • Why does it seem so hard to START reading these days
    by /u/redsockstella (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 4:17 am

    I think this might be a generational thing—me growing up with a phone and YouTube maybe. But I love the feeling I have when I am reading and I like learning and being absorbed in a book. However. A book is a slow burn (which logically I love, but motivation wise not so much) and I can just go on my phone to learn things from video essays or what have you, and I get faster knowledge. Now I appreciate a video essay and I appreciate that I have access to so much knowledge on the internet but I also just want to read a book. I want to have my own interpretation, put in the effort to read the whole book and work for the knowledge as well. And I love doing it! I just can never sit down to start. It’s always starting that I can’t do, and sometimes I read the same part over again and don’t absorb it and it takes me a super long time to read especially when I am trying hard to pay attention. I want to read so badly yet for some reason my brain seems to be like “no you don’t!” Anyone else feel like this and have some advice 🙂 I want to love reading so much that I always want to do it! Because I do feel that way while im reading but yeah. It seems impossible to start. submitted by /u/redsockstella [link] [comments]

  • What should I do when enthusiasm gets in the way of reading?
    by /u/MusicNotes2 (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 12:36 am

    The title might be confusing, let me give an example I was reading the book "Art of Statistics" (which is a great read btw), and 40 pages in my brain is overflowing with thoughts about how I could I explain what I read to people, applying what I've learned to my life, etc etc. When I get a hold of myself, it has been an hour and a half later and I haven't got a single page read since. How can I control myself? It really messes up my schedule submitted by /u/MusicNotes2 [link] [comments]

  • No Prison Time for Book Thief
    by /u/BurtBruh (So many books, so little time) on March 26, 2023 at 12:25 am

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