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“Yapay zekâ ve algoritmalar sınıflara hızla giriyor. Teknoloji öğrenmeyi kolaylaştırabilir; ama merakın, diyaloğun ve insanı gerçekten dinlemenin yerini tutamaz. Eğitimin özü, ekrana bakmak değil; insani bir karşılaşmadır.”

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Ali Murat Yel: ALGORİTMALAR ÇAĞINDA “DÜNYAYI OKURKEN” FREİRE’Yİ HATIRLAMAK
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October 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
quaybooks.bsky.social
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe.
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#LiteratureForAChangingPlanet #ClimateAndCulture #BooksThatMatter #ClimateReads #EnvironmentalHumanities
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May 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 if I can get her to move.

Love Forms by #ClaireAdam set in Trinidad and Venezuela in the 1980s and 2020s.

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Book cover of Booker longlisted novel Love Forms by Trinidad and Tobago author Claire Adam.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
New Reading the World blogpost - Uzbekistan, Hamid Ismailov and the Soviet Era:
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Uzbekistan - The Railway et al.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
Oh btw, new Reading the World blogpost. The Dominican Republic, Junot Díaz and how I can't keep reading 5 books per country (spoilers: the next 2 country profiles each feature 5 books):
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Dominican Republic - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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April 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
eponymist.bsky.social
29. Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi: A second Yaa Gyasi's novel. The aftermath of a son's death as a result of America's opoid crisis.
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#ghana
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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24. Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism - Slavenka Drakulić: A second book from Drakulić as she looks back on 30 years of post-Communist Eastern Europe and the evaporating promises of help from the west.
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#croatia
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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21. Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi: Two hundred and fifty years of Ghanaian history told by tracing the lives of one family line via the trans-Atlantic slave slade. Read it in a day. Highlight of the year so far.
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March 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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15. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed - Slavenka Drakulić: A book that very much does what it says on the tin. Makes you realise how much Soviet communism and late stage capitalism have in common. I'm sure it's just a conincidence.
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#croatia
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
11. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah: A second Reading the World book from Ghana (see 1.). A satire on political corruption in post colonial Africa. Often regarded as Ghana's answer to Things Fall Apart.
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February 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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9. Poso Wells - Gabriela Alemán: Reading the World heads to #equator with this short novel about kidnap and political posturing in the ficitonal slum town of Poso Wells.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
Finally getting back to publishing Reading the World articles. Morocco, Leïla Slimani, Leila Abouzeid & Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky
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Morocco - Dans le jardin de l'ogre et. al.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
8. El trueno entre las hojas - Augusto Roa Bastos: Shoirt stories. Tough, due to being written in Paraguayan Spanish, which includes a lot of indigenous words mixed in. Think I got most of it but definitely need a break before attempting the novel of his I have to read.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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4. La mujer habitada - Gioconda Belli: Second Belli novel as #readingtheworld returns to #nicaragua. Set in 1970s during the final years of miltary dictatorship with bits of magical realism thrown in for good meausre. My Spanish is still very much a work in progress, but I enjoyed this one.
February 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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2. Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist: Was on a bit of a vampire kick last year and it's continued into the new year (more to come). Also counts as a 3rd #readingtheworld author for #sweden. Need to watch the film. I imagine there will be a lot they cut. Or perhaps not. Good book.
February 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
eponymist.bsky.social
Reading Thread 2025. Slow start as I try to finish about half a dozen books.
1. Search Sweet Country - Kojo Laing: First Reading the World book of the year with a trip to Ghana 1975. One of those books where every chapter focuses on a different character that coalesce into one.
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January 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
eponymist.bsky.social
New Reading the World blogpost: Vietnam and Lan Cao. Been slow in putting these up recently. I'll try to publish a few more before the end of the year:
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#vietnam #lancao
Vietnam - Monkey Bridge/The Lotus and the Storm
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November 12, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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New Reading the World post. Eduardo Galeano, Latin American football and the history of the exploitation of the south:
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#uruguay #eduardogaleano
Uruguay - Eduardo Galeano
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September 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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New Reading the World blogpost. Yambo Ouologuem and Le Devoir de Violence. A study in colonialism and double standards:
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Mali - Le Devoir de Violence
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August 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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New Reading the World blog post. Latvia and Nora Ikstena:
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#latvia #noraikstena
Latvia - Soviet Milk/Life Stories
Country: Latvia Book: Soviet Milk (Mātes piens)/Life Stories (Dzīves stāsti) Author: Nora Ikstena (Translator: Margita Gailitis) Publication...
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July 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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New Reading the World blog post that I posted the other day. Cambodia, Loung Ung and The Killing Fields:
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#cambodia #loungung
Cambodia - First They Killed My Father
Country: Cambodia             Book: First They Killed My Father Author: Loung Ung Publication Year: 2000 Genre: Memoir/History Often on ...
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July 8, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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New Reading the World blod post. Syria and Samar Yazbek:
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#syria #samaryazbek
Syria - Woman in the Crossfire/ Planet of Clay
Country: Syria          Book: A Woman in the Crossfire/ Planet of Clay Author: Samar Yazbek Publication Year: 2012/2021 Genre: Journalism/F...
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June 8, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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New Reading the World blogpost. Iceland. Strap in. This is a long one:
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#AuðurAvaÓlafsdóttir #HjörleifurHelgiStefánsson
#SnorriSturluson #JeffJanoda
Iceland - Butterflies in November et. al.
Country: Iceland                 Book: Butterflies in November (Rigning í nóvember) Author: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Transla...
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May 9, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Second Reading the World post of the week. Liechtenstein But not really Liechtenstein. More Tibet, via Heinrich Harrer's classic account, written in Liechtenstein:

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#liechtenstein #heinrichharrer
Liechtenstein - Seven Years in Tibet
Country: Liechtenstein                  Book: Seven Years in Tibet Author: Heinrich Harrer Publication Year: 1952 Genre: Travel Ok, so I...
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May 3, 2024 at 1:37 PM
eponymist.bsky.social
It's been a couple of weeks since I published a Reading the World piece, so this week I'm releasing a couple of entries, linked by the Himalaya. First up, Kunzang Choden and Folktales of Bhutan:
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Bhutan - Folktales of Bhutan
Country: Bhutan                 Book: Folktales of Bhutan Author: Kunzang Choden Publication Year: 1994 Genre: Folklore Dangbo..o..o Dingb...
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April 30, 2024 at 9:16 AM