The only #GoodReads giveaway I've ever won was a copy of #SalmanRushdie's #MidnightsChildren, but if there is any justice in the world I will also win a free copy of #RedSideStory by #JasperFforde, a book I've been waiting impatiently for ever since I first read #ShadesOfGrey in like 2010 or something. https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/383119-red-side-story
Book giveaway for Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde Feb 10-Mar 09, 2024

Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Feb 10-Mar 09, 2024. The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shade...

#Bolano #2666 捏着鼻子听了10个小时,还没get到。我弃坑了。。。
虽然没有很喜欢#MidnightsChildren 但一时也想不到什么别的作家。好在图书馆不知道为什么收了很多#SalmanRushdie 的书。看来接下来的两三个月要进入南亚次大陆了!
印度、巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡,喜欢这些地方的英语作家讲的五彩斑斓的故事和他们那种若即若离的感觉,却一步都不想要踏足。想去的地方,只有台湾、日本。
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Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie in Conversation - BBC Sounds

Salman Rushdie talks to radio director Emma Harding about his novel Midnight's Children.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon mine is tiny, but it’s all big, difficult books I’ve been meaning to read for decades. I’m very good at avoiding them and diving into the next fantasy or thriller I come across. Just managed #MidnightsChildren and have #100YearsOfSolitude lined up so maybe this is the year :)
Review by noonjinx - Midnight's Children

I enjoyed this one but found it exhausting to read. It took me four months to finish because I...

#7BooksToKnowMe

In no particular order or certainty that I won’t change my mind

George Eliot #Middlemarch
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Roland #Barthes Mythologies
Mikail Bakhtin EpicAndNovel
Salman Rushdie #MidnightsChildren
Joseph Roth Radetzky March
Olga Tokarczuk Flights

Salman Rushdie on Midnight's Children at 40: 'India is no longer the country of this novel'

Four decades after his Booker-winner was published, Rushdie reflects on the Bombay of his childhood – and his despair at the sectarianism he sees in India today