pickI've had this one on my shelf for a long time after hearing about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast and finally got to it when it came up as November's #Bookspin. Really interesting discussion of what makes a city livable, healthy, and desirable. @TheAromaofBooks
Something something the Greeks were always doing shitty gender things.
Kitchen - crockery - fragile!!! MS: summer clothes. V. manuscripts (Missing Persons). MS: study - stationery. But mainly, the boxes say: IV books - MS books - books.
"Three or four boxes of books, says André, 'is normal. Ten or twelve would be unusual, excessive. But this....it's unreasonable man.
If I'd known we were moving a bladdy *library*...."
“Brookhants students later told stories of flaming yellow jackets making their way from their now- burning nest, through the woods and onto campus, before drowning themselves, bodies hissing, in the fountain in front of Main Hall.”
pickThe way in which Delaney discusses this interactions without holding stigma towards any of them is really beautiful to me. There is a lot of stigma and talk around queer men and hook up culture and sexual intimacy and etc. that make me feel uncomfortable with myself I guess. But he is so honest and transparent makes it viewable in a lens not so foregin but simply different.
pickI will never look at parking the same way again. I think the title is a bit wrong, it should be “Explains North America”.
It was a November afternoon in Queens and Jie Zou was looking for a parking spot.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Sometimes literally the only place you can find a book is a shitty libgen pdf and that's okay
This was an impulse buy on my last trip to my new favorite bookstore. I haven‘t started it yet, but the cover caught my attention and the story sounds intriguing. Have any of you read it? Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/y02mEcEzavY?si=VZ4XlpHdfCAo14Jh
The Importance of Book-Centered Spaces as Third Places by Susie Dumond; https://bookriot.com/book-centered-spaces-as-third-places/
