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Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 16

2007 | πŸ“– The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall | United Kingdom | 224 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | 2011 | πŸ“– Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | United States | 480 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | @ernestcline_official 2012 | πŸ“– The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson | United Kingdom | 194 pages | πŸ†πŸ† 2018 | πŸ“– At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop | France / Senegal | 145 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | 2022 | πŸ“– Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana | United States | 213 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† |

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 15

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2017 | πŸ“– I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen | United States | 319 pages | @tess.gerritsen 2024 | πŸ“– The Voyage Home by Pat Barker | United Kingdom | 320 pages | 2025 | πŸ“– The Secret Orphanage by Barbara Josselsohn | United States | 274 pages | @barbara_josselsohn_author 2025 | πŸ“– The Secret Librarian by Soraya M. Lane | United Kingdom | 302 pages |  2025 | πŸ“– Little Bird by Barbara Viniar | United States | 394 pages | @barbaraviniar

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 14

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2018 | πŸ“– Severance by Ling Ma | United States / China | 291 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | 2018 | πŸ“– Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | United States | 384 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | @authordeliaowens 2025 | πŸ“– The Silent Guest by Sally Rigby | United Kingdom | 252 pages | @sally.rigby.author 2025 | πŸ“– Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson | United Kingdom | 480 pages | @thatphoenicia 2025 | πŸ“– Packer by Matt Stanley | United Kingdom | 317 pages |

One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson (2025): A Review

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Title : One Aladdin Two Lamps Author : Jeanette Winterson Publication Year : 2025 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 272 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, essay, memoir Let’s just say Winterson is a modern Scheherazade here. Honestly, that could be the whole review. Unfortunately, the status quo expects a little more than me dramatically pointing at a sentence and saying, “That. That is the review.” So here we are. Friends warned me that this was a memoir. Nonfiction, they said. What nobody mentioned, not even Goodreads which is very rude of them, is that this memoir reads like fiction, unlike certain books that pretend to be fiction but should be catalogued under “nonfiction, lecture notes, and emotional betrayal.” Yes, friends! You know exactly which book I am hinting at. One Aladdin Two Lamps moves so smoothly and so quickly, even though you want to pause after every sentence to highlight it, annotate it, preserve it for posterity, and possibly whisper, “Jeanett...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 13

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1605 | πŸ“– Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston | United Kingdom | 446 pages | 1732 | πŸ“– Zaire by Voltaire | France | 73 pages | 1894 | πŸ“– Regret by Kate Chopin | United States | 9 pages | 2020 | πŸ“– The Midnight Library by Matt Haig | United Kingdom | 288 pages | πŸ† | @mattzhaig 2024 | πŸ“– The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao | India / United States | 384 pages | πŸ†πŸ† | @ruthvikarao 2024 | πŸ“– Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane | Australia / United States | 272 pages | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | 2025 | πŸ“– Writers and Other Dreamers by S. Cunliffe | United Kingdom | 367 pages | 2025 | πŸ“– Tofino by Tom Stewart | Canada | 427 pages | πŸ†πŸ† 2026 | πŸ“– The Knife Maker of Venice by David Gilman | United Kingdom | 512 pages | 2026 | πŸ“– They Can't Burn Us All by Cathryn Kemp | United Kingdom | 404 pages | @cathryn_kemp 2026 | πŸ“– His Final Patient by J.S. Monroe | United Kingdom | 365 pages | 2026 | πŸ“– The Little Porto Book Club by Rebecca Raisin | Australia | 332 pages | @re...