News Of The Week
Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. Thanks again for all of the quality posts. I am still hoping to start breaking out some of the older content into separate anthologies in April. I also want to come up with other ideas to improve the territory, so suggestions are always welcome.
This week @jbschirtzinger posted the final chapter of his book, The Rogue Scholar, and made a convenient consolidated post. I added that to the “Books” section, so now who can easily access the entire novel.
I want to conduct more writing contests, but first I want to get more feedback and suggestions from the community. I will be talking about those plans separately in a post I will make in the next few days.
I hope everyone has a good week.
Top Five Posts Of The Week
The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.
Here are this week’s top posts:
Siggy’s Suggestions
I started thinking about this book club and what seems to be the growing lack of engagement as the weeks go by. I am guilty of contributing to the lack of engagement, although I thoroughly enjoy the posts. @Se7enZ has continued to produce excellent content each week. I wonder if good book club posts suffer because they challenge the reader to invest more time than would be typical of a Stacker News post? For myself, I am often reluctant to comment because I haven’t put in the time to constructively add to the conversation. @elvismercury started the idea of book clubs on Stacker News with his on Lyn Alden’s Broken Money. As you can see, it was highly successful, but I think that, over time, it didn’t get the full engagement it deserved because most stackers (and certainly me) were not up to the challenge. It’s a shame, but perhaps by keeping these posts in front of as many eyeballs as possible for as long as possible might help the situation.
I always like these quote posts, and this week’s quote was near and dear to every bitcoiner’s heart.
Writing Contests
Stackers’ Blogs
My Bitcoin Journey
Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.
Book Clubs
Books
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Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
Book Reviews
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For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway by @plebpoet (meta territory post)