At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

• Start a new bookish tradition with Jolabokaflod this Christmas!
• Pour the tea and dig into The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023.
• The enigma of how to sell a book.
• Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers – a study found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more.
• One Day, ChatGPT Will Move You to Tears – AI it is creating images, stories, and poems on an unprecedented scale.
• A Lord of the Rings fan fiction writer has been sued for publishing own sequel.
• Take that, Boomers! Gen Z and millennials are visiting libraries at a higher rate than older generations, according to a new study by the American Library Association.
• In completely unrelated news, e-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance.
• Read the newly translated The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé.
• For decades, Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo has cast an uncanny spell on writers, even inspiring Gabriel García Márquez. A new translation may bring it broader appeal.
• This week in dedication, A Book Club Took 28 Years to Read ‘Finnegans Wake.’ Now, It’s Starting Over.
• And also, ‘I spent the majority of this year in the headspace of Moby-Dick’.
• Goodreads has suffered a year of controversies, from cancelled book deals to review-bombing, and exposed a dark side to the industry – is the book world turning against it?

 

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