Finished reading The Wicked Day. It does a great job of making Mordred sympathetic and the fateful clash with Arthur to be a series of unfortunate events. It’s a great finish to Mary Stewart’s Merlin series.

Started reading The Book Thief. I knew nothing going in. I guess a tragic tale of growing up under fascism is just what we need right now.

#Reading #Arthuriana #WickedDay #MaryStewart #Mordred #BookThief #MarkusZusak #Fascism #WW2

Vince is back with our Weekly Picks in time for your weekend reading!

Featuring:

📖 The Book Thief by #MarkusZusak
📖 The Striker by #AnaHuang
( #GodsoftheGame)
📖 Girls Who Play Dead by #JoelleWellington

Read all of Vince’s picks online at our site. 📚

#reading #books #getnotified
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https://www.booknotification.com/blog/weekly-picks/book-notification-weekly-picks-26/

Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe wins the Top 100 Books countdown — as it happened

1h agoSun 19 Oct 2025 at 8:10am Want more Top 100 Books? On Monday, Radio National’s The Book…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #boyswallowsuniverse #markuszusak #radionational #thebookshow #thebookthief #thebookshelf #top100books #top100booksnumberone #trentdalton #trentdaltontop100books
https://www.newsbeep.com/195132/

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

— Markus Zusak

#Stoic #Stoicism #MarkusZusak

'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak

https://booksperience.org/2023/11/01/ithe-book-thief-i-by-markus-zusak/

#AustralianLiterature, #BookStealing, #Books, #Death, #Emotional, #Fiction, #Freedom, #Germany, #HistoricalFiction, #Holocaust, #Library, #Literature, #Love, #MarkusZusak, #NaziGermany, #Novel, #Politics, #PowerOfWords, #TheBookThief, #War, #WorldWarII, #YoungAdult

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

— Markus Zusak

#Stoic #Stoicism #MarkusZusak

Started reading The Book Thief yesterday, having watched the film last year. Absolutely wonderful so far. Not quite sure how it manages to make Death so affable, but still.

@bookstodon

#TheBookThief #MarkusZusak #books #AmReading #reading #ReadingForPleasure #fiction #HistoricalFiction #WWII #Germany #bookstodon #literature #YA

Right! #books and #authors I've really enjoyed recently, in no particular order:

The Book Thief #MarkusZusak
Project Hail Mary #AndyWeir
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived #AdamRutherford
The Heart's Invisible Furies #JohnBoyne
Norse Mythology & Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires #GradyHendrix
Fairy Tale #StephenKing
The Girl With All The Gifts #MRCarey
1Q84 #HarukiMurakami
His Dark Materials #PhilipPullman
The Midnight Library #MattHaig

#bookish