BookWyrm.World

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A generic Bookworm instance for everyone to use.

Join other bookwyrms in recommending books to eachother & sharing your reading list and read list. Or, if you just want to have a place to manage the books you are reading, then this is also the place for you! Either way, everyone is welcome!


We are also a part of the Fedihosting Foundation together with other sites such as Mastodon.world, Lemmy.world and mstd.social

Need help? Contact the admins at info@bookwyrm.world or send a dm to @sigvie@bookwyrm.world here on the local instance!

Request an Invitation

We've decided to turn off open registrations due to spam accounts. This means that you'll have to ask us for an invite. You can do that by filling out the form below. When your request has been accepted, you'll receive an email from us. It can appear in your spam folder, so remember to check that in the next days. If you have any questions, then feel free to reach out to us via email: info@bookwyrm.world, or on Mastodon: @bookwyrmworld@mastodon.world

Recent Books

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (2002, J.M. Dent & Sons, E.P. Dutton)

Frankenstein

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Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling …

John Kennedy Toole, T. J. Kennedy, J. M. Álvarez Flórez, Ángela Pérez: La conjura de los necios (Paperback, Spanish language, 2001, Editorial Anagrama) No rating

La conjura de los necios

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[Vigésima tercera edición en «Compactos»]

El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly –una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona–, que a los treinta años aún vive con …