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Reviewers Call This Hands-Free Light The 'Best Purchase They’ve Ever Made'
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Reviewers Call This Hands-Free Light The 'Best Purchase They’ve Ever Made'

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Had it one day and already bought as a gift. Great product!” — tcw “Okay, this light is the best thing since sliced bread. With this light I just close my book, hit the small power button, and then I’m out cold. I always feel so uncomfortable turning on the bright overhead “reading lights” on planes since I know it …

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Travel Experts Reveal The Airplane Seats They Try To Book For Their Kids
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Travel Experts Reveal The Airplane Seats They Try To Book For Their Kids

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Anchiy via Getty Images The earlier you book your family’s flight reservation, the better your seating options will be. “When traveling with a child, you may want to book a window seat for them,” said Jurga Rubinovaite, the creator of travel website Full Suitcase. “If two parents are traveling with one child and there are three seats on each side …

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Following in Du Fu's footsteps
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Following in Du Fu's footsteps

China Daily  

Michael Wood's passion for all things Chinese was first sparked by his discovery of ancient poetry when he was a teenager. The film, Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet, has now inspired a book, In the Footsteps of Du Fu, recounting Wood's travels while making it. "We know so little in general in our culture about China — it's not the …

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Related publication: Where is the Great Wall
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Related publication: Where is the Great Wall

China Daily  

Where is the Great Wall by Dong Yaohui, published by CITIC Publishing Group. The book Where is the Great Wall explains, from a macro geographical perspective, the reasons why the Chinese people have been building the Great Wall for two thousand years. Covering regions such as the Northeast Plain, North China Plain, Loess Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau, Hetao Plain, Hexi …

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Let’s put a stake in the ‘great man’ biography — starting with Isaacson’s ‘Elon Musk’
1 year, 3 months ago

Let’s put a stake in the ‘great man’ biography — starting with Isaacson’s ‘Elon Musk’

LA Times  

Review Elon Musk By Walter Isaacon Simon & Schuster: 688 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. On the first page, we’re told that Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of X, and currently the world’s richest man, was born into a …

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Light at the edge of darkness
1 year, 5 months ago

Light at the edge of darkness

China Daily  

Zhang Lian in front of his little house in his native hamlet, where he lived between 1993 and 2005. Fully aware of the pitfalls of her task, during what she called "the most intense period" of the three years between 2018 and 2021 that she spent translating Zhang's poems, Liu was engaged in frequent WeChat exchanges with the poet on …

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INTERVIEW | Pico Iyer: ‘Memory is itself a great fiction’
1 year, 9 months ago

INTERVIEW | Pico Iyer: ‘Memory is itself a great fiction’

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST - 13 MINS READ Pico Iyer, often described inaccurately as a travel writer, uses his travels as a launch point for constructing his wonderful essays. This interview ranged through many topics, including his working methods, cover designs, his political neutrality, Milton’s concept of paradise versus Blake’s, the structure of the book, trends in …

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‘Book covers not only about great image-editing skills’
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Book covers not only about great image-editing skills’

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 06, 2022 09:30 IST Recently, the Kolkata-based independent publishing house, Seagull Books, celebrated its 40th birthday. Some of the influences are very Kolkata: the art and craft of Kumartuli, the lettering on the sides of buses, the window grilles, the mosaic tiles, the balconies, my mother’s tangail sarees, Satyajit Ray’s drawings in the Feluda books, the colonial …

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Joining the dots to complete Partition puzzle
2 years, 7 months ago

Joining the dots to complete Partition puzzle

Deccan Chronicle  

The trend of hijacking and distorting huge amounts of India’s history by the British was faithfully followed by the Congress for decades after Independence — in fact till it finally got pushed out of power in 2014. Iqbal Chand Malhotra who, through his earlier works on Pakistan and China, proved to be a determined history hound has once again been …

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The Best Books On Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey And Other True-Crime Women Scammers
2 years, 8 months ago

The Best Books On Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey And Other True-Crime Women Scammers

Huff Post  

Can’t get enough great reads? Join our official monthly book club, HuffPost Readable, to get great book suggestions and participate in important discussions with fellow book lovers. If you can’t stop watching “The Dropout” and “Inventing Anna,” you’re already gripped by real-life tales of women who lie, cheat and steal. So if you’re looking for some extended reading, or just …

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My White Teacher Used A POC Pen Name To Sell Her Book. Should I Have Outed Her?
3 years, 1 month ago

My White Teacher Used A POC Pen Name To Sell Her Book. Should I Have Outed Her?

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The author hiking Monument Mountain in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, during the pandemic while BLM protests were going on around the world. Another email from her arrived in the morning, with “apologies for any pain caused” and letting me know she didn’t “condone the actions of the publisher/editors and own cluelessness.” See, she was sorry. Courtesy of G. Delano Burrowes Three …

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A moral compass called Gandhi
3 years, 2 months ago

A moral compass called Gandhi

The Hindu  

Why should Mohandas K. Gandhi’s autobiography be published over and over again? A publisher would say: ‘Because it sells.’ The bookseller: ‘Because it brings a kind of clean air to our shelves.’ A senior buyer: ‘Because my old copy of it is dog-eared and I want to own a fresh edition, printed on strong paper, with its text easy to …

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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Review: A fantastic reason to pick up a book or a new hobby
3 years, 4 months ago

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Review: A fantastic reason to pick up a book or a new hobby

Firstpost  

Sure, it’s a bit of a provocative headline, but not without merit, I assure you. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles represented a wonderful way to get my first taste of that universe, since it ostensibly comes with the series’ latest gameplay mechanics and is set in the 19th Century — well before the original Ace Attorney trilogy. My fondness for …

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A bestselling L.A. novelist was struggling to depict a female adventurer. So she became one
3 years, 7 months ago

A bestselling L.A. novelist was struggling to depict a female adventurer. So she became one

LA Times  

On the Shelf Great Circle By Maggie Shipstead Knopf: 608 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the seven years it took to write “Great Circle,” Maggie Shipstead’s third novel, the California native befriended fear. The “perfect summer romp” and winner of an …

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