Lidia Jorge — The Wind Whistling in the Cranes
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The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery & the Creation of Anne [Shared]
The manuscript is housed in the collections of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Both sides of each page (recto and verso) were scanned at the Robertson Library's Digitization Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island.
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Book 17 of 2025
Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley edited by Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi
4 stars
An eclectic collection of critical essays on one of my favorite authors. As usual with these things, the pieces can be hit or miss depending on the contributor. But overall I thought it was very good and insightful. It was really fascinating to see scholars' different opinions and interpretations of the same books and scenes, sometimes pretty diametrically opposed to each other.
I particularly appreciated the essays on the art of memory and temporality. Reading a little more about Gnosticism has also made me feel more equipped to revisit Crowley's more impenetrable works. I foresee a Crowley deep dive in my future.
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"It seemed to him a contradiction: people bought beautiful houses, spent millions of yen so that the windows would face south, the wood would be cedar, and the ceramics in the cabinet would be from the most exclusive potters, but then accumulated so much stuff that you could no longer see any of it; even the light had to make space for itself like water seeping between the furniture and clutter." -- from 'The Heartbeat Library' by Laura Imai Messina, trans. Lucy Rand
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Book 16 of 2025
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
4 stars
Suzanne Collins really will just keep writing darker and darker books until people stop misunderstanding them. This one explores deep fakes, media propaganda, coercive control, and the importance of resistance in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
I liked this one much better than the previous prequel; it felt more integrated with the existing world and added some really fascinating context to a few things in the original trilogy. Haymitch also makes a compelling protagonist.
I share Donald Sutherland's hope that young people reading these books and watching these films will give them the tools and imagination they need to rise up and keep resisting for as long as it takes.
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16 days later, i’ve finally finished ‘nexus’ by yuval noah harari.
my verdict though: a definite meh…!
not bad - just a bit much. a powerful and urgent message buried under too many words.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/nexus-by-yuval-noah-harari/
Book haul! I guess I'm on a Jeanette Winterson kick right now. I'll be starting her memoir as soon as I finish Howards End (which I'm halfway through and having a GLORIOUS time with).
#books #reading Anthony Bale "Reisen im Mittelalter, 2024, S. Fischer. Auch im Mittelalter wurde (teilweise) weit gereist, mit unterschiedlichen Motivationen, doch war es immer ein Zuwachs an Eindrücken und Erfahrung. In vielen Kapiteln mit unterschiedlichen Foki beschreibt er das Reisen bekannter und unbekannter Akteure. »Lebendig, spannend und erstaunlich. Hier erleben wir, was es heißt, in fremden Ländern unterwegs zu sein, damals wie heute« John Arnold. Gebundene Ausgabe
Recommending Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness for anyone who'd prefer to read about people being kind to each other than about whatever else is on offer.
It's not that the book doesn't have difficult moments. It definitely, most definitely, does.
But it's refreshing that kindness can appear in a literary context as a big issue worthy of discussion rather than only in fluffy, cheerful stories set in cafes or bookshops. There's a place for those, too, but relegating kindness only to light fiction does it a disservice.
We need to be talking about kindness. Maybe if we had more books and stories like this, maybe if they were the norm, we'd even have a kinder world.
Started reading L.M. Sagas' "Cascade Failure: An Ambit's Run Novel."
https://amzn.to/3DAm5Sx
Really digging this #SciFi #SpaceOpera stpry so far. Is giving me serious "Serenity" vibes.
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Made it 1/3 of the way through this book, it's just so weird and unique, I don't really know what to say of it yet.
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
Aktuell lese ich: "Die Flüsse von London - Bd. 11: Wer glaubt schon an Drachen?" von Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel
Spring into reading with these fun reads for kids! Don't let this giveaway melt away. #books #reading #giveaway #bookish 
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#softwareEngineering #computerScience #programming #commonLisp #history #essay #reading of Whither Original Thought #transcript from @kentpitman
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/show/kmp-whither-original-thought/
with a link to its beginning in the interview.
I chose to hand-transcribe it to remove (and probably introduce) discontinuities.
A central theme is the tyrranies of programming libraries and the question of having exhaustive knowledge of your increasingly numerous dead forebears.
Read it yourself (and/or listen finally).
screwlisp.small-web.orgLiteral transcript Kent M Pitman’s Whither Original thought previously unpublished essay
The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year - Book 103 #reading #goodreads #sundayfunday
http://weewritinglassie.home.blog/2025/05/25/the-wee-writing-lassies-300-books-in-a-year-book-103/
The Wee Writing Lassie · The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 103The Lucky Prepper: A Gardener’s Story of Surviving a Pandemic by Emma Zeth Goodreads Blurb: What do you eat when the shops run out of food?Zoe loves teaching science, she loves her garden, and most…
So, I'm reading 'Spare', the autobiography of Prince Harry.
And, y'all, his dad the king literally called him a 'spare'. He meant in the line of succession, but still, what a fucked-up thing to say to your kid.
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#20TBRBookChallenge
11/20
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR —wherever! One book cover per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Explanations not mandatory but if I feel like adding one, I will. #Nonfiction #Bookstodon #Bookchallenge #Reading
アルディ Done reading #DavidYallop's book "In God's Name" !
A very impressive theory on the murder of Albino Luciani and the Vatican's corruption.
Now I start to read his next book "The Power and the Glory", about the dark papacy of Karol Wojtyla.
Last night I finally finished The Three-Body Problem. Today I looked up at the sky, and the sun made my brain do a double take. 
