TheoSep 2, 2025
104th read:

Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyễn

Hands down winner for the best title in 2025, and the cover is equally delightful.

Centers on 2 Asian trans women, who are dating & star men's volleyball players. Contending with fame, parasocial relationships, hate, representation, & violence, some parts are smoother than others in an ambitious debut novel.

3/5 stars

#Bookstodon #ContemporaryLit #Books

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Dewey Ritten Jan 21, 2024

Zadie Smith came out with a new book aaaand something tells me Im going to be sleep deprived this week reading all night 😆

PS this is what Sunday afternoons are made forrrr

#TheFraud #ZadieSmith #bookstodon #contemporarylit #newfiction

Torsa GhosalApr 14, 2023

- proofs ✔️
- index ✔️

look out for this #book on #digital #literature that i’ve worked on for 4.5 years in June 2023, featuring exciting work by contributors @Reham_Hosny_S @CMejeur @haze20091 et al.

https://www.routledge.com/Global-Perspectives-on-Digital-Literature-A-Critical-Introduction-for-the/Ghosal/p/book/9781032103495

#digitalliterature #digilit #game #globalStudies #ContemporaryLit #academic #academicmasdoton @academicchatter #academicchatter #electronicliterature

Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century

Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shaped by aesthetic and political exchanges happening across languages and nations. The book understands ‘global’ as a mode of comparative thinking and argues for considering various forms of digital literature—the popular, the avant-garde, and the participatory—as realizing and producing global thought in the twenty-first century. Attending t

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Alice 🌻Feb 16, 2023

The best book I've read in recent years was hands down Bunny by Mona Awad - I'm still thinking about it! It inspired me to write the most detailed review/analysis I have done since my English Lit days!

https://thewallflowerdigest.co.uk/bunny-by-mona-awad-5-star-review-and-analysis/

#BookReview #Books #ContemporaryLit

Bunny by Mona Awad – 5-Star Book Review and Analysis! - The Wallflower Digest

I loved Bunny by Mona Awad so much I was inspired to write a book review with the most detailed analysis of a book I've done in twenty years!

The Wallflower Digest - The Internet Research of an Anxious, Introverted 30-Something
Alice 🌻Feb 15, 2023

Finished Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow.
Only a 3/5 for me.

It started strong, LOVED the writing, liked the characters but the structure didn't work for me.

Too many time jumps felt fragmented, too much detail on the process of game development was boring & I lost connection to the characters.
I needed to spend time with them being people, & less focus on how they built their company.

Long, tedious reading I powered through to the end just to finish it.

#BookReview #ContemporaryLit

Alice 🌻Feb 13, 2023

So I guess we do a hashtag dump on here for introductions? I'm interested in lots of things - ever expanding - but right now #reading lots and learning and exploring my creativity.

My current hot topics
#writing #creativity #blogging #bookreviews
#pkm #knowledgemanagement
#librarian
#obsidianmd
#menstrualcycle #periodpower
#wallflowers #introvert #socialanxiety
#contemporarylit #scifi
#startrektng
#embroidery #needleart #threadart

Loryndalar 🏳️‍🌈Nov 24, 2022

Here's my #introduction --

I'm a #music #librarian with a #PhD in digital #publishing (focusing on the "publishing" hash for the findability! But if you want me to rant about DRM I can...)

I #write #literary themed #SpecFic (including #fantasy #SF and #YA )

(Though my current #WIP is #contemporarylit about an illiterate performance poet (PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT!))

#Queer in a #gay way with my #jazz pianist husband

And super proud #greyhound dad

#Walyalup (Fremantle) #Australia

#RePost

Show threadJaime R Wood-Riley (She/ They)Nov 23, 2022
@anneursu @bookstodon I'm not sure if you're looking for contemporary lit or older stuff, but this list has some fantastic recommendations of Black British authors: https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/12592/books-by-black-british-writers-to-read-rainbow-milk-paul-mendez-nels-abbey #BlackBritishAuthors #ContemporaryLit
18 Books by Black British Writers to Read Now

Layla Haidrani details 18 books by some of the most exciting new black voices in the world of British literature

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LoryndalarNov 23, 2022

Here's my #introduction --

I'm a #music #librarian with a #PhD in digital #publishing (focusing on the "publishing" hash for the findability! But if you want me to rant about DRM I can...)

I #write #literary themed #SpecFic (including #fantasy #SF and #YA materials)

(Though my current #WIP is #contemporarylit about an illiterate performance poet (PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT!))

#Queer in a #gay way with my #jazz pianist husband

And super proud #greyhound dad

#Walyalup (Fremantle) #Australia

Monica SousaNov 19, 2022
The deadline for ACCUTE 2023 has extended to Nov 24th! I'd like to take this opportunity then to mention the panel Jerika and I are organizing. :) #animalstudies #posthumanism #ContemporaryLit #contemporaryliterature Check out the submission portal here: https://accute.ca/accute-2022-2023-submission-form/
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