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Monday 22 April 2019

Books I discovered on social media


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.

·         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.

·         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?

12 comments:

  1. 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

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    1. It was a good one - so many examples of this sort of thing happening.

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  2. Re: "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!

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    1. So am I! I shudder to think what someone could have put online.

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  3. So You've Been Publicly Shamed sounds like a really good read. I'll have to look that one up.

    My post.

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  4. Those looks like great choices, and I'm really not familiar with any of them. My selections are here:
    http://nagamakironin.blogspot.com/2019/04/challenge-books-i-discovered-on-social.html

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  5. Some interesting choices! I too meet a lot of authors on social media, but along with them come books I enjoy.

    My post. https://www.tenastetler.com/books-i-discovered-on-social-media-lsr-wednesday-blog-challenge-4-24-19/

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    1. I was surprised how many I could think of after I made the post!

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  6. Yes. This book...So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed...I get it. Thanks for the list. Good one!

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