This blog topic from Long and Short Reviews was a tricky
one, because in the first instance I couldn’t think of any books I’d discovered
on social media. However, thinking back, I could remember three authors I’d
discovered online and who, in at least two cases, I’ve gone on to read plenty
of.
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Will
Storr vs the Supernatural. Will Storr is a journalist who, for one of his
magazines, started to investigate the supernatural and was shocked to discover
there was more to it than he had expected. I’m now in the middle of another of
his books, The Science of Storytelling,
but my favourite of his will always be this one.
·
The May
Bride. I discovered Suzannah Dunn while looking for other historical
fiction authors to join Philippa Gregory and Anne O’Brien on my shelf. Her
novels are unusual in that they use modern dialogue, the idea being that people
discussed the same things back then, just in slightly different forms of
speech.
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So You’ve
Been Publicly Shamed. This one is probably the most famous. I was drawn to
this after the Justine Sacco incident, being aware of how terrifying it is that
you might one day say something stupid and have the whole world land on your
head.
So what have you discovered on social media?
These are three I'm not familiar with.. thanks for sharing. I'm particularly interested in the last--it happens SO. FAST. My post is here: https://jhthomas.blogspot.com/2019/04/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge_24.html
ReplyDeleteIt was a good one - so many examples of this sort of thing happening.
DeleteRe: "So You've Been Publically Shamed"... I've told my daughter many times that I'm SO glad there was no YouTube (or cell phone cameras) back when I was a kid. I'm here today: http://www.mariannearkins.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-discovered-on-social-media/. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSo am I! I shudder to think what someone could have put online.
DeleteSo You've Been Publicly Shamed sounds like a really good read. I'll have to look that one up.
ReplyDeleteMy post.
It was, even more so than I was expecting.
DeleteThose looks like great choices, and I'm really not familiar with any of them. My selections are here:
ReplyDeletehttp://nagamakironin.blogspot.com/2019/04/challenge-books-i-discovered-on-social.html
They were definitely worth a read.
DeleteSome interesting choices! I too meet a lot of authors on social media, but along with them come books I enjoy.
ReplyDeleteMy post. https://www.tenastetler.com/books-i-discovered-on-social-media-lsr-wednesday-blog-challenge-4-24-19/
I was surprised how many I could think of after I made the post!
DeleteYes. This book...So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed...I get it. Thanks for the list. Good one!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great read.
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