The academic book market is extortionist in the extreme. This price is pornographic. It makes me so mad! I am beyond words. That's why people pirate textbooks. 😤
This is hysterically funny only because it's so sad. Watch Margaret Atwood take a flamethrower to an unburnable copy of her novel.
Video: https://youtu.be/zpsMsAMY4eM
Article: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/25/watch-margaret-atwood-take-a-flamethrower-to-a...
pickFly by review. This is really good. Written with cartooning students in mind, but certainly accessible for everyone, it is both a 15-week self-directed course and a deep reflection on what makes good cartoons, comics or graphic novels. Spoiler alert: it's not drawing ability. Not even close. Quick read at 78 pages too.
We have a winner (but not my favourite, tagged). The winner of the Combat national des livres is L'Averti by Vanessa Léger. The one I liked the least won. Boo. It's not a bad book, just the least interesting to me.
La combat national des livres, day 3. Two eliminations today in preparation for the final vote tomorrow. [There were no eliminations yesterday]
My favourite, tagged, is still in the running! [For what it's worth, I did not like L'Averti by Vanessa Léger, so there]
Tagged was eliminated yesterday. It's a very nice novella, but not as poignant as Ingratitudes, and that's why the other books were preferred. Second book set to fall this afternoon.
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It's that time of the year: Le combat des livres on Radio-Canada Première, the French-language version of Canada Reads. Can't wait to see who wins. I like tagged best. 2-6 May, 13h-15h ET
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/fiches/3897/combat-national-des-livres-2022
Indigenous territories: tagged
West: Ying Chen, Rayonnements
Ontario: Daniel Poliquin, Le vol de l'ange
Québec: Paul Serge Forest, Tout est ori
Atlantic: Vanessa Léger, L'Averti
pickA good one, especially if you are in the history business. Can't say I'm in agreament with everything, but the idea that a house museum must root its importance in the local but become relevant in the broader to remain relevant and survive in the longterm, I can support. Also that not all historic house museums must have inherant perenial value. Thought provoking.
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Professional development! Thinking about viz think and how yo draw it! 76 pages long only!
The whatever's subservient female relation whose own story is meaningless without the guy's existence.
I am so tired of these book titles (and the basic premise of most of them). Stop recommending these to me. Authors, do better.
#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
❶ Yes, though I read news and fanfic most on my phone
❷ My Kobo or my Kindle, depending on availability.
In Covid Standard Time, we are not winning.
https://covidstandardtime.com/
#wonderouswednesday @eggs Thanks @eadieb for the kind tag!
💛 Of course. Is it a kissing book? Why so much yellow? Does this overt Settler national history book have Indigenous peoples on it? I will judge you. Hard!
💙 Minimalist and sparse. Subtle graphics, smart use of fonts, kerning, and colour. No avalanche of blurbs (I do not trust blurbs).
💜 It used to be “La vie est un long fleuve tranquille.“ Since 2017, no longer.
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1️⃣ From the 1950s and 1960s, especially from The Three Suns. Google them, it's musak before Musak the band was founded. But it's actually very good. Gling gling gonslg bing!
2️⃣ Cookies!!!
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
1️⃣ That my elderly father, sister or cousins not catch covid despite not respecting the 10 or fewer, no more that two household limit for holiday gatherings. Because I know they won't respect the limits. My sister told me as much last night.
2️⃣ There's 15 cm of snow on the ground and it's -12⁰C outside so I'm hopeful.
🎵 Christmas Gorn is here 🎶
🎶 Big dagger and fear🎵
🎵Fight for all that Trekkers call 🎶
🎶 He comes back every year🎵
Funniest thing in the new English edition is the character guide. Everyone's weapon is described, even if the character has a none. The book has a rather disconcerting heterosexual soup motif, which is funnily acknowledged here.
#BOOKMAIL !!!!
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu has official English editions! Is she getting a cent of this? No idea, since she has disapeared from public life in 2019. But these editions are gorgeous, full colour, with index and character bios, and glossary. They are so heavy. They will hurt my hands when I read them, but it will be well worth it. These are just the first volumes. The one on the left has 5.
Ornament highlights! Guess which is new this year! 💉😁🎄🧑🎄
It's been a long year where I've been mostly away from here. Which bums me a lot. Here's hoping I'll read more in 2022. In the mean time, here is our tree, sadly artificial.
As per my convo with @vivastory, an illustrated poem on what happens to books when we love them and when we love them no more.
Last day of #inktober2021
This was really fun! So glad I chose the mushroom motif/constraint. I really needed an artistic outlet this year. For day 31, spot the cinematic reference!
31. Fantasmagorie, Phantasmagoria
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27. Arcane, ésotérique
28. Éremophobie, fear of going red in the face
29. Aléatoire
30. Liminare, liminal
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26. Aurum, Or, Gold.
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Unexpectedlt needed replacement. I was looking for a chapter last week and found more mold. In the trash it went! An oldey but a goody.
22. Scopophobie
23. Sérénité
24. Alcyon
25. Latibule
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Figured I needed a physical copy for the colloquium I'll be end speaker for next month. Important reflections and vital discussion. #decolonize
21. Habromanie
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20. Lygophilic, likes or lives in the dark or shadow.
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16. Saudade
17. Lucent
18. Aiden
19. Fragmentation
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15. Psychalgia, physical pain from psychological trauma
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14. Nyctophania, likes the night
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Final replacement book in this batch. Next batch will have to wait.
24. Démersal, falls to the sea floor, lives to the sea floor.
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8. Haze
9. Numinus
10. Selcouth
11. Dreeblissa
12. Discarnate
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Another replacement book. This one cost a lot of money to replace, though not as much as some I have not yet reordered. This one at least was not three digits.
7. Zéphyr, doux vent d'ouest
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6. Vertigo, vertige
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5. Mesmérique, hypnotique.
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Started this on the train. Una is a wonderful author (and a very nice person) who always perfectly nails character voices, and she delivers here. Very much enjoying it. Also, I know for a fact that this Goodman guy did virtually nothing on this book. Yet, he gets credit. Grrr.
"Ils étaient quatre qui voulaient se battre, contre trois qui ne voulaient pas."
4. Agonal, relative to combat or public games.
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3. Paréidolie, voir des visages dans des objects, seeing faces in objects.
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Should have done it in ink and brush. Anyway, my son came up with the concept.
2. Boréal, nordique, northernly
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It's that time of the year. Doing Obscure Words III for Inktober this year, from the list prepares by nikolas_towers on IG.
1. Ignis, to set alight, allumer, feu
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Really good text by Molly Templeton at tor.com on the books that make us in our lives. Nostalgic in a good way.
https://www.tor.com/2021/09/30/the-libraries-of-who-we-are/
pickFun book I forgot to report on. Very good reflection on how sex in space has been imagined in science and science fiction in the US. It's a bit dated at this point — mores have changed since the 1990s — but still thought provoquing.
