David Wright
@curiousbooks.bsky.social
Seattle librarian, storyteller, union thug & book reviewer (LJ's Classic Returns); narrator & publisher of intriguing overlooked gems as Curious Books.
Get a free audiobook when we launch, at https://mailchi.mp/708a1d7a08af/curious-books-quarterly
Get a free audiobook when we launch, at https://mailchi.mp/708a1d7a08af/curious-books-quarterly
Apocalypse has its points.
March 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Apocalypse has its points.
AND bookshop.org, where you can buy print and digital online via you local participating indie bookstore.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
AND bookshop.org, where you can buy print and digital online via you local participating indie bookstore.
Also, for audiobooks, use Libro.fm, which sells digital audio via a local indie store you can select. And then check out your library’s print and digital holdings, and investigate what reciprocal borrowing agreements they may have with neighboring systems, to expand your reach.
ro.fm
March 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Also, for audiobooks, use Libro.fm, which sells digital audio via a local indie store you can select. And then check out your library’s print and digital holdings, and investigate what reciprocal borrowing agreements they may have with neighboring systems, to expand your reach.
If you buy any used books, try searching for them at addall.com/used/ which searches a wide range of international sellers. You can often find the exact same copy listed on Amazon and the Amazon-owned Abebooks, and on non-amazon sites such as Biblio. Also, try the publisher: many sell direct.
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addall.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you buy any used books, try searching for them at addall.com/used/ which searches a wide range of international sellers. You can often find the exact same copy listed on Amazon and the Amazon-owned Abebooks, and on non-amazon sites such as Biblio. Also, try the publisher: many sell direct.
OSS117 UNLEASHED!!
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
OSS117 UNLEASHED!!
(It makes more sense when you know that series of boons is designed to be high interest simplified vocabulary reading for adult literacy and English as a Second Language learners. Not kids.)
November 30, 2024 at 3:30 AM
(It makes more sense when you know that series of boons is designed to be high interest simplified vocabulary reading for adult literacy and English as a Second Language learners. Not kids.)
November 19, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Stunningly good narration.
November 14, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Stunningly good narration.
So true: it’s right there on the lobby card: tragicomic horror farce.
November 14, 2024 at 5:03 AM
So true: it’s right there on the lobby card: tragicomic horror farce.
QUIET STREET, a disconcertingly upbeat 1930 novel about dire mayhem in the Bolshevik revolution, by Soviet exile Mikhail Osorgin. There's a more recent translation called THE RIVEN HEART OF MOSCOW, but I'm reading the old one. Unsettling, familiar, apt. neglectedbooks.com?p=6043
Quiet Street, by Michael Ossorgin [Mikhail Osorgin] (1930)
I’ve been saving Mikhail Osorgin’s novel, Quiet Street, for a quiet break. There is something about a good, thick Russian book — things like Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, or Konst…
neglectedbooks.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:43 PM
QUIET STREET, a disconcertingly upbeat 1930 novel about dire mayhem in the Bolshevik revolution, by Soviet exile Mikhail Osorgin. There's a more recent translation called THE RIVEN HEART OF MOSCOW, but I'm reading the old one. Unsettling, familiar, apt. neglectedbooks.com?p=6043