Latest catalogue from @blackwells.bsky.social is books by – or owned by – Naomi Michison. One for you @jennykenyon.bsky.social? blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks/ca...
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Latest catalogue from @blackwells.bsky.social is books by – or owned by – Naomi Michison. One for you @jennykenyon.bsky.social? blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks/ca...
Would you be interested? Spotted by a friend in London
The Lovejoy reboot you didn’t realise you needed
Someone’s left a stuffed ferret outside the library on my road. Yours for the taking if you can get to Muswell Hill fast enough.
The pict tribes, under Chief Calhoo,
To scare their foes were painted blue.
But when their foes were very few
They only blue their nose.
Haha! I imagine them walking around like Flat Stanley from spraying their clothes with eighteen boxes of starch before ironing!
Oh, it's starch.
Good question. The robin, like the lobster, appears on almost every page. Whatever it is, they're eating a LOT of it!
Charity shop find: early C20 scrap book. Somebody likes lobsters. @drbibliomane.bsky.social
It's this one. Nice blurb from Stanley Tucci too - keeping it classy!
Emily Dickinson of course! And those are New England smallops. Yum!
That one is majestic isn't it. The alliteration, moving into to those single syllable lines, and then - bam! - she hits you with "Porridge"!
For a while this morning I was misreading the first line as "Chickleg". Disappointed when I realised it was just "Chicken". A spondee would've been bold.
My friend just bought me this book of found shopping lists and I can't stop imagining they're Emily Dickinson poems. “Chicken — Brockley — — Milk”. I think it’s about death.
Ooh nice! (Imagines a viol made out of crystal with a luminescing glow-worm inside.)
Lovely! Thanks Nicola.
At the Natural History Museum looking at mayflies trapped in amber. Biomatter that gets frozen in amber like this is called an "inclusion". Isn't that a wonderful word to conjure with.
Unhelpfully, this is what the weather forecast used to look like in the Times. I only wanted to say whether it was sunny or not in London. Can anyone translate?
Yep. MotF works really well for material text stuff. Good readers vs bad readers; clean books vs tatty books; books that speak… Leah Price has a chapter on it in “How to Do Things with Books”, and I’m happy to share my lecture slides/lesson plan too if you like.
Oh wow! The SoI needs a hawk, definitely. Something to bring up at the next meeting.
This is Winnie the Harris hawk. She comes to the British Library twice a week to scare away the pigeons.
Pius’s “bulla contra turchos” (Fust & Schoeffer, 1463) a contender.
Oh are you in Crowcombe? I went to a wedding there this summer. What a lovely village.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
A quick blog about funeral biscuits, the ephemera around them, and a boy who could eat a kilo of them in four minutes.
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Index, A History of the: A bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age by Dennis Duncan next to a tiny pot of Italian mandarins jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar
Mandarins, Italian paired with Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan
Day 19 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair a language-y book from my shelves with today's jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar
A little blog about printing, writing and funeral tickets
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Oh! We did that last week. It’s funnish, but a bit short & easy. Would’ve been better as an Xmas entertainment with my (teenage) kids than with drunk grown-ups.
UM LIVRO PARA DOIDOS POR LIVROS
(Índice, uma história do, de Dennis Duncan. Como
alguém consegue pesquisar assunto tão obscuro
e curioso? Eleito pela New Yorker um dos melhores
livros de 2022, é irresistível para quem é amante das
palavras, leitor de raridades ou viciado em linguagem.)
Such a lot of bastards
