It's interesting what you can find by searching random tweets about books in one day:
I am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme - "The Constitution of Liberty" and the three volumes on "Law, Legislation and Liberty" - and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.
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Awesome Life Changing Nonfiction Books & Wide Range Of Topics, Free Kindle Nonfiction Books $1 Deals – http://www.nonfictionfreebooks.com
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Happy birthday to one of my all-time favorite comic book writers, Roger Stern! Stern wrote epic runs on THE AVENGERS, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, the Superman books and many more iconic series. He was consistently great and always had a flair for character moments. Wish him well!
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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated and not sit unread…” Christopher Paolini
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Hildegard of Bingen, German Abbess, visionary, composer & polymath, died #OnThisDay in 1179. She founded 2 monasteries & wrote the earliest Medieval morality play, musical compositions & almost 400 letters, as well as books on her visions, natural history & medicine.
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.@glennbeck's New Book #AddictedtoOutrage is hitting the shelves TOMORROW!
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NPR: Vladimir Nabokov has always denied that a famous case of rape and kidnapping influenced "Lolita", his most well-known novel. In her new, astute book, Sarah Weinman argues otherwise.
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Just finished Capote’s True Blood and honestly, I don’t see the fuss about it. Certainly not the worst book I have read, but there are certainly better true crime books out there.
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7 UK True Crime Books From 2017 & 2018 That Are Totally Terrifying
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Author Of ‘How To Murder Your Husband’ Arrested For Allegedly Killing Her Husband
https://bit.ly/2NaT8RO
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Medieval Torture and Execution of Modern Serial Killers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CPQM85V
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"I highly recommend this book to all lovers of the true-crime genre.” – Donna Carrick, Host, Dead to Writes podcast on my book “The Boy on the Bicycle” (re Ron Moffatt, wrongly convicted in 1956 of murder at age 14 in Toronto) @ Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y7gkmcq4
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Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. https://wapo.st/2PDw5vC
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1983 Literature Laureate William Golding's novel 'Lord of the Flies' was first published #OnThisDay, 17 September 1954. The novel rapidly became a world success and has since then been read by tens of millions of readers all over the world.
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Finished reading Ayn Rand's debut novel, We The Living. A powerful work of literature on the tragedy of the individual spirit living under the evil of collectivism in which Ayn Rand began to formulate a new moral ideal that she masterfully presents in her later work.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
—Charles Dickens—
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David Copperfield (@D_Copperfield) who took his stage name from the Charles Dickens character, is 62 today.
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Today marks the start of my bi-annual re-reading of Philip Sugden's tome (Jack the Ripper) in my opinion - the best book ever written on the subject. Possibly one of the greatest true crime books ever.
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Charlotte Brontë: "The shadows are as important as the light."
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finding out that Charlotte Bronte was only FOUR FOOT NINE has unsettled me on a molecular level
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"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind" (Mary Shelley, 1931 Frankenstein).
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"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." -Victor Hugo
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Trailblazers: Before Agatha Christie was crowned the Queen of Crime; Kiwi author Ngaio Marsh was even more popular http://nzh.nu/1GeG30lQmra
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Trivia: When Conan Doyle first dreamt up his two most famous characters, he planned to call them "Ormond Sacker" and "Sherrinford Holmes." A few weeks later he changed their names to "Dr. John Watson" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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I liked a @YouTube video http://youtu.be/awGN5NApDy4?a Voynich Code - The Worlds Most Mysterious Manuscript - The Secrets of Nature
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Thinking about the hurricane, I read Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm this summer. Great book about the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 12,000 and the birth of hurricane forecasting and the National Weather Service. Nothing but respect for forecasters.
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Humour is THE most popular ingredient in books that children read for pleasure. It’s also one of the hardest to create. It’s much easier to be clever than funny.
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