You, kind sir, are offering comfort, wisdom, and delight to a cohort who, daily, find the world trying harder to drain such things from life.
I have thanked you in the past; I thank you again.
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I'm on pg 491. Some days, I can only get through 20 pages (and page count is inflated, white space, blank pages), looking up references, checking prior chapters. Odd: I get to the point of frustration, and a miracle paragraph (sentence) appears, like she knew when to play nice w/reader.
Weiße Katze steht mit Vorderpfoten auf einem Stapel brauner Bücher und steckt ihren Oberkörper durch einen beigen Lampenschirm. Netzfund
Schönen Samstag 🏮 📚 🐈
#Schönesgegendoofes
I rarely make overt political statements here, but I want to mark this for later reference: I'm getting strong Fetterman vibes from this guy. I hope I'm wrong.
makes me want to go
Beautiful Worm Moon
"The color palette offers a facade of order, a way in which to make sense of the world."
Thoughts on reading Edith Young's informative and playful book, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦: 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘱 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴
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Whining about the weather is our state sport. Year-round.
Prove this place is good for culture and post a good book cover.
Montaigne and Hawthorne
painting by Edvard munch - Sun.
I follow a lot of art/lit bots - Vah Gogh, the guggenheim, Emily Dickinson Museum, Walt Whitman, Moby Dick at Sea, etc, to balance things out.
and sometimes even Munch surprises me.
The Great Equations sounds interesting... I have a troubled relationship with math, but still keep trying.
ooh, I read this a couple of years ago, it's wonderful!
I'm still reading the same two things as last week - just now hit pg 200 of DeWitt, 1/3 done! and almost ready to post about 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦.
Still I wanted to drop in so you don't forget me. ;) And see what others are reading that I can add to my absurdly long TBR list.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
Cool on both counts
sketch of bouquet of flowers with 'get well soon' banner
I hope you heal soon (and don't skip physical therapy!)
This was great, thank you!
I've added it to my (absurdly long) TBR list on Goodreads!
that does sound good!
now on pg 164, there's a wonderful surprise nearly every page (Saki [HH Munro]! Sufism! American vs European second person!). Some pages thus take a half hour to figure out.
Duolingo (Spanish) lesson screen: A continuación, mostrarán una entrevista con el presidente. ¡No entiendo cómo alguien votó por este hombre! Meaning: Up next, they will show an interview with the president. I don't understand how anyone voted for this man!
Oh my, Duo is getting into it.
I don't think reading it entails any obligation. We all have ways that work for us.
I've spent about 2.5 hours over 2 days on 30 pages of Helen DeWitt's 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦. I love this book so far. Let's hope I love it after another, oh, 200 pages or so.
I want that cup!
book cover
So in the meantime I can do some recreational reading (aka transit reading, but in winter, transit time is cut short in honor of snowy sidewalks). Right now, Color Scheme by Edith Young, a quirky book about art, heard about from @ezbrooks.bsky.social .
book cover laid over article art from The Nation
I've finally started Helen DeWitt's 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦; only 25 pages in, I'm very excited about it: Arabic! Calvino! Second person! Philip K. Dick! A third self-referential book! It's going to take some time.
Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!
"Psst... Did Not Finish Shelf is Coming Soon (Action May Be Required)
Took me a while to figure out what this message from Goodreads meant.
