Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr may be the Emperors of the social media world, but Goodreads is the platform to be on for book nerds. Rather than Instagramming a picture of your latest read next to an artfully placed cup of coffee, Goodreads is a more involved and interactive way of sharing your love of reading. It’s essentially tremendous world-wide book club. In short, Goodreads is good.
By Hayley Charlesworth
Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr may be the Emperors of the social media world, but Goodreads is the platform to be on for book nerds. Rather than Instagramming a picture of your latest read next to an artfully placed cup of coffee, Goodreads is a more involved and interactive way of sharing your love of reading. It’s essentially tremendous world-wide book club. In short, Goodreads is good. By Charlotte Dibley My affinity with literature hasn’t always been the perfect, idealistic running-through-a-field-of-flowers level of affection. It should be pretty straight-forward: either you enjoy reading or you don’t, right? Whilst this is true, my experience has shown me that relationships with books aren’t always black and white. By Graeme Stirling For many a student ploughing their way through university, books are a key asset. If this sounds like stating the obvious, we should add that it’s not for the reasons you might think. Particularly when it comes to social sciences and humanities subjects, which are increasingly popular among UK students, nothing seems more important to the marking system or the keen eye of the academic staff member than referencing. Would-be graduates spend more time providing evidence of their reading and filling their perfectly reasonable essays with vaguely relevant quotes, in-text references and segues than they do writing the paper to begin with. Ploughing, then, is the operative word, as the process of scanning hundreds of pages for a quotable point to back up your own is its own form of monotonous labour. By Gemma Williams Books come in all sorts of shapes and sizes now. Some are large, or thick, others can be pocket sized with fewer pages. They can be a variation of colours or just plain. There is no limit when it comes to designing a book. However, there is one age old debate that I have been wondering about recently: hardback covers versus paperback covers. As any book collector / lover will know, there are both positives and negatives to each type of book cover and at the end of the day, it's all about personal preference. But what are some of these pros and cons? There are so many books that have made people tear up and cry over the years, both with happiness and sadness. these types of books can be considered the most powerful of all, moving people in many ways all over the world, and here at IWG Books, the Team have come together and share some of the books we love to cry at! Here are some of our favorites! Let us know in the comments which ones you agree with, or perhaps you can enlighten us on ones that we have missed! by Charlotte Fraser Young Adult fiction has always been important, and over the coming years, it has become even more popular with today's youth. There are many books out there that were written especially for Young Adults, and now because they are so popular, they have ended up getting their own genre, Y/A! In this article, I will look at some of the modern Young Adult novels that have made an impact! by Gemma Williams In the world of the Shadow Hunters in The Mortal Instruments, written by Cassandra Clare, it is a considered a taboo subject to be homosexual. One of the main characters, Alec Lightwood, is attracted to men yet has to hide this from everyone he cares about or risk being exiled by not only his family, but their society and entire way of life too. by Graeme Stirling In a recent article for the Huffington Post book supplement, journalist and – you guessed it – novelist Lynn Shepherd raised a key issue afflicting the publishing industry: that of the disproportionate power of certain established authors over the market. In particular, she was none too pleased with JK Rowling, the tremendous sales figures for the lacklustre The Casual Vacancy or the emergence of her quirky new crime series, originally set to be penned under the clunky pseudonym Robert Galbraith. by Cookie 'n' Screen I never thought about it. I say before whipping into a self-indulgent rant about why, the book I am writing, has a centre homosexual relationship. Truth is, I never thought about it. Like most writers (I hope) my pivotal character came to me in a train station and started to whisper her story in my ear. And straight from the beginning, I was always aware that she would fall in love with a woman. That was it, a strong person shimmied over (when you read the book, you’ll get that) and twisted my head to an invisible woman, shuffling across the glossy floors and went “she is the one.” So yes, I am writing a novel with a pivotal homosexual relationship. |
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