Latest posts tagged with #Lablit on Bluesky
โThe Curie Society, Volume 2: Eris Eternalโโ#Review๐, published by The @mitpress.bsky.social
#BookReview๐ by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky๐๐ #Fiction #TeenBooks #science๐ฌ #LabLit www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
'The Curie Society' By Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni And Janet Harveyโ -- #Review, published by @mitpress.bsky.social
#BookReview๐ by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#books #BookSky๐๐ #Fiction #TeenBooks #science #LabLit www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
We will discuss as #Lablit Emma Cook's You Can't Hurt Me shortly. I can confirm it is a crime/thriller - I was unsure! Quite melodramatic.
#booksky
Approx 70 pages left I shall breeze through tomorrow! I am still uncertain how to categorise it. Perhaps that is a good thing. Anyway, no spoilers though I had an insight around page 110 I think it was, that I will surely discover is right or wrong in the last 20 pages! #booksky #lablit
I still have 170 odd pages of the book we will discuss tomorrow as #lablit - Emma Cook, You Can't Hurt Me. 1/3 plus in still not sure if it is a crime story, family drama, or thriller! Not read the blurb or precis.
... but where has all the #lablit gone? not spotted much new this year! ๐๐
Well another disappointing set of book reviews in Observer & STimes - no obvious #lablit. Just an interesting review by Kenan Malik of -
Furious Minds: The Making of the M๏ปฟaga New Right by Laura K Field
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observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Another for US #blackhistorymonth #lablit #booksky
Real Life
by Brandon Taylor
Drama: A gay biochemist struggles with work, relationships, issues of race, and his fatherโs recent death amidst a small group of friends on a Midwest campus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Li...
This is a very good novel ๐๐
My own #scifi favourite genre, is set in a contemporary or very near future, with some particular scientific development/innovation, that forms the core of the story... that is I suppose why I like #lablit, I like a story that seems close to possible.
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It is the USA's #blackhistorymonth (October in UK) - thought I should mention over the month some relevant authors of #Lablit. I won't do all now...
Covers of 6 books read in January: THE SILVER BONE (Andrey Kurkov) THE BLOODLESS BOY (Robert J Lloyd) DEADLY FOCUS (R C Bridgestock) EVERYONE THIS CHRISTMAS HAS A SECRET (Benjamin Stevenson) NOTRE DAME OF PARIS (Victor Hugo) THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (Ernest Hemingway)
Statistics relating to books read in January. Bar and pie charts showing genre, format, book length
Books I read in January. Of these, I recommend The Silver Bone and The Bloodless Boy. Both are historical crime novels, one set in pre/just-about Soviet Kyiv, the other in restoration London. The Silver Bone has a very slight tinge of magical realism, The Bloodless Boy fits into #LabLit nicely
This [downloadable] Radio 4 Start the Week will be of especial interest to those of us into Science & Literature #lablit #booksky ๐ก๐
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It would be true #lablit if the mathematician featured more strongly. It should appeal to those who enjoy short stories by the way. I do not want to give away anything though! #booksky
we discussed the very very #lablit lite - to the extent it is not really eligible I can say -
Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi
middling scores - enjoyed but with reservations from some. Was highly praised by many reviewers as a novel novel, playing with the detective genre #booksky โก๐
I donโt often go for audio, as I get easily put off by iffy narration, but I am enjoying this bit of historical mystery featuring Robert Hooke of the Royal Society as a detective
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#LabLit
Cruz-Smith & Kerr (who wrote a #lablit about Newton that I have not read) are very good. I'll try some of these others! ta ๐๐ #booksky
I think I'll have to ask @jennyrohn.bsky.social if we should add this Arthur Ransome to the #lablit list as it has an ornithologist - I read ot a very long time ago & gave away my beautiful hardback copies in the last century #booksky
Outrageous Horizon - Adrien Bosc - looks interesting - looks along the lines of Labatut, re-imagining real people but fictionally - Levi-Strauss, Victor Serge, Wifredo Lam & others flee Vichy France #booksky #lablit
www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...
Oh yes - sorry - Emma Cook, You Can't Hurt Me -
Under 3 stars, but #lablit as it portrays a "scientist renowned for his work in the Pain Laboratory" - a scientist in a novel that is not sci-fi
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara ...? @jennyrohn.bsky.social @hstiles1.bsky.social Possible #lablit?
What is your favourite read of 2025...? #Booksky #lablit #fiction #nonfiction ๐๐
So sorry - busy week & was away Mon/Tues & Thurs.
I missed the discussion of Effie Black's #lablit In Defence of the Act -I enjoyed, bar the odd infelicity... she writes malt for moult, & her spider species name on one page ends with an 'i' & later does not. Mixed reception I'm told! #booksky
A Sunday without #lablit in the reviews I saw... but been designing & executing a Yule card which has swallowed my day. Then my printer ran out of ink. At least I have time to send them & that won't be rushed... When I have posted them all (I send about 60) later this week,I will share it here...
Really enjoying In Defence of the Act by Effie Black - a biologist studying suicide might not seem a subject with humour but I think there is humour in her writing. #lablit #booksky
We read Tomorrow x3 & enjoyed it, but was not quite sciency enough to count as #lablit. Hope your November head was in a better place ๐
Another disappointing selection in the Sunday papers - no #lablit...
As I understand it, women read far more fiction than men so one would expect more women to publish fiction. When I looked at the balance of books on the #lablit list, It turned out to be about 50-50 over the list. More female authors in recent years writing fiction with scientists as characters.
