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Book 1,  'The Raven Boys' by Maggie Stiefvater   I've never had a book recommended to me by Pinterest before. I don't know why Pinterest started sending me regular emails. I didn't, to my knowledge, ask for them. Maybe I accidentally toggled some toggle or another. Whatever the reason, for some months now, Pinterest has been sending me emails every few days, featuring 'fan art.' I'm fine with it. I didn't ask for them, but I rather enjoy looking at the cartoons, fan-art 'book covers', portraits of favourite characters and illustrations of favourite scenes, while trying to pick out the real art-work from the AI. I've never read, or even heard of, most of the books mentioned but that's okay. There are an awful lot of books in the world. As the emails came in, it was soon obvious that a great number of them featured a series of books called 'The Raven Boys Cycle' by Maggie Stiefvater. Judging by the number of fans doing art for ...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Girl-Susan-Price/dp/B08F6RYHJF/ My brothers put me on to Pinterest which, being artists and hooked on visuals, they are scrolling all the time. You probably know it yourself:- a website where people 'pin' images on 'pin-boards'. Some people keep their pins private, their principle purpose being to keep ideas for their kitchen refit or garden make-over in one easily accessible place. But others pin images connected to their hobby, or favourite place or interest, whether that's cooking, classic cars, scuba-diving or whatever and make them public. It's a pictorial blog. Creative types use it to share their latest art-work and writers set up boards for each of their books. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1532756879 A visual image is much more compelling than words, whether written or spoken. Sorry, writers, but it's true. I suppose that's why we try so hard to create a vivid visual image with words. If you want to remember a ...