Shocked. Floored that this book is in the database. 1764. #covercrush #7days7covers

Thx @sudi 😘😘😘 #covercrush #7days7covers

I saw this book in Paragraph bookstore in Mtl (the old location) a few weeks after it came out. I picked it up in the store, intrigued, read the first sentence, lost my breath, sat down, open the book again, and the sentence was still there. The cover calls to a gothic book, and it starts as such, before switching to horror, then SF, to epic fantasy and ends in a mix of all three. A feat of genius.

So by my calculations, today is September 13th, right? #notreading #screaming

1️⃣ This one set in Québec City.
2️⃣ Sunny and brisk.
3️⃣ Too long to recount here. Let's just say he took me to see Twin Peeks: Fire Walk with Me, because it was "a sexy movie" and thought it would get me in the mood. I like this movie, but it's not "sexy". First thing he showed me in his apt was his bed. There was no 2nd date.
4️⃣ One boy, one schnauzer.
5️⃣ ?????
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Forgot my reader at home... Grrr.

Hey, I'm on a train! Taking a break from writing lectures (I hate the Seven Year War! I hate talking about the Deportation!) And looking out to a nice brisk day. #trainlife #academiclife

#bookmail For a course I'm teaching next semester, but this book is written with a wide readership in mind. Starting it now.

#wondrouswednesday @eggs
1️⃣ September, a short, unassuming song (and therefore poem) by David Sylvian.
2️⃣ Two work trips and one trip to visit a specialist in Toronto, in October.
3️⃣ My son started 4th grade two weeks ago.

1️⃣ If I get any fiction reading done this season, I'll be happy.
2️⃣ I have a course to not fall behind on, a story to finish, a 45 min conference paper to write, an article to begin and two paper proposals to send out. Those must be done.

@thespineview #two4tuesday

Still no estimation as too how much coastline was lost to Dorian in the Magdalen Islands, but workers on the ground are saying they have never seen that much damage and loss in one go. The islands' famous bike path is gone in places and marshes are saturated and filled with crap (shown). Winter storm season starts in three weeks.

Honest Academic Job Listings. So true, it'll make you cry. The history ad (shown) is about my current position to a tee. I am gleefully NOT doing the job they hired me for, by the by.

Full article here: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/honest-academic-job-postings

#academiclife #DecolonizeAcademia

Not book related, but nerdy AF. I am looking for a celery glass, aka celery vase. I've been looking in charity shops for quite some time, to no avail. I used to own one 12012 years ago, but let it go in one of my many moves. Now I need one for a material history class I'm teaching next semester. Do you own one? Would you be willing to part with it. I'll pay (if reasonable).

Even though Dorian hit the Islands last night, they're maintaining alert conditions for of hurricane wind speeds. Dorian has been downgraded to a tropical storm on its way to Newfoundland. It'll hit there very soon. The undersea communication cable is still there, thankfully, but power is generally down Fishing boats and marinas were most hit, with direct economic effect next Spring. NS, overall, was hit much harder, especially around Halifax.

Ok, this is really worrying. Dorian, the hurricane that's been terrorizing the US East coast since yesterday is moving upwards to hit Nova Scotia at Halifax on Sunday am. This is unusual enough, but not unheard of. What is unheard of is that it'll go through NS, then PEI, to hit the Magdalen Islands Sunday pm. It's the first hurricane to do so in *recorded* history. 400y. Sea storms? Yearly. Tropical storms? Yep. Hurricane? NEVER. That's my home.

End of project packing. The box, the microfilms, the CDs and three short offscreen piles will go into storage. I also need to take the 12012 photocopies out of the filing cabinet. The shown piles are going to uni for teaching. Now to tackle the project carts, one shown. Oof. #academiclife

1️⃣ There are so many, but this one... I used to keep a copy just so I could hate it more. No relations.
2️⃣ None currently. I can't think of one which would be a 'favourite'.
3️⃣ Cereal, yogurt and coffee.
4️⃣ Eastern
5️⃣ "White Peoples" and that's a complete No! Nope! Never! No. I'm so sorry.
@howjessreads #friyayintro

Squeeeeee! Remember when I mentionned this summer that one of my phone pics from a long time ago was going to be included in a book? Here it is! Coming into the world in April 2020. Link to the book trailer! https://youtu.be/RQDlxJF9tvs

Brooklyn Book Festival is hitting out of the park this year. nYC #littens are in for a treat. Marlon James, N.K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, P. Djèlí Clark, Catherynne Valente, Akwaeke Emezi, Carmen Maria Machado, Hafsah Faizal, Kat Cho, Alice Sola Kim, Lilliam Rivera, Zoraida Córdova, Namwali Serpell, and more.

https://www.tor.com/2019/09/05/check-out-all-the-sff-events-at-the-brooklyn-book...

Interesting! I've read (and met) many writing duos, but a group of four or five is unheard of for me. Cool.
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/what-its-like-to-collectivel.html

I took a huge decision today, with likely repercussions on my career. I have decided to stop trying to make the monograph I've been working on for 10 years work. I've officially stopped working on it. I will be publishing one more article from this research, after which it's shelved for good. It doesn't work. It's dragging me down. I need another monograph to become full professor but it won't be that one. Next project is ago. #academiclife

Hot damn! That was unexpected! 😁 Woot!

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1️⃣ Tagged. My fave since I was 8. Aged well, even the tech (surprisingly).
2️⃣ Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened.
3️⃣ It's not really my bag, usually, but I really liked Chesterton's Queer Occupations (I think it's the title in English?!)
4️⃣ Eggs Benedict, but only if the Hollandaise is light. It's supposed to be sauce, not salty custard, you know?
5️⃣ @batsy @Lindy 👋👋👋

This sucker isn't going to write itself. #academiclife #amwriting #amteaching

1️⃣ 👍
2️⃣ In person, rarely, but I visit my uni Humanities library website to access electronic resources daily. I was on there an hour ago.
3️⃣ All types of electronic materials. Journal articles are the most common.
#getlibrarycarded @nitalibrarian

For those who may wonder if I'm in a reading slump. I'm not. I'm in an academic reading overload and will be for a few more weeks still until I settle into a class writing/teaching rhythm. Gah! #academiclife

The official #inktober2019 prompts are out and they look good (shown above). I'm still going to do the more bookish Obscure Words prompts I posted a couple days ago https://www.instagram.com/p/B1qwWfnCdPE/. I translated copied the words in I'll let everything steep for a month. My sketchbook is ready to go; I'll mostly use pen and ink with dabs of watercolour. My hope is to use this to rest my brain as I plow through teaching. #arting

❶ Not really a read so much as the textbook in the class I'm writing. It's ok.
❷ No different than any other weekend.
❸ Death by chocolate!!!
❹ I used to play guitar 100 000 years ago. The recorder does not count, no.
❺ Will do!
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Home. Finally. As washed out as this picture. Good night #littens. I love you.

🔹MA, passed and the candidate knows he is lucky to have passed.
🔹Body, exhausted.
🔹Brain, barely braining.
🔹Train, ONE HOUR LATE!
#academiclife #train #sigh

Going to uni, for the dreaded MA defence and hopefully for checking if my machines work in the bigger auditorium I'm assigned. It's been in use every time I was on campus this last six months. I also need to look at the campus bookstore to find where they keep the texts I assigned and look into library reserves. First class on 5 Sept. #academiclife #train

Any artistic #littens on here thinking of doing #inktober this year? I'm thinking with all the work reading, writing, and teaching I'll be doing I might need a non-verbal outlet to rest my brain. The official prompts come out Sept. 1st, but these ones sounds especially bookish.

Thank you @Megabooks for the tag! 😘
1️⃣ I just officially gave up on tagged.
2️⃣ Nick Bantock's The Forgetting Room or Thomas Wharton's The Logogryph.
3️⃣ I don't keep count.
4️⃣ In keep my fiction and non-fiction as separate as possible on here. Also, Ive been working on writing classes, so there are too many to list.
5️⃣ 👍👍 @gissy @LauraBeth @youneverarrived @AnneCecilie @Redwritinghood 👋👋
@eggs #wondrouswednesday

Honestly, this thesis! Ths candidate's shallow understanding grates, and their unsophisticated word choice is becoming an issue. He just called a character stupid. Ouf. Defence Thursday. #academiclife

9 quizzes done out of 12. Am now brain dead. Will now go watch some Star Trek TOS and veg. #academiclife

1️⃣ ☝️
2️⃣ Teleportation
3️⃣ Apparently Gemini
4️⃣ Sewing, cooking, groceries.
5️⃣ 👍
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Not reading. Today: quizzes. Ugh.

I'm not reading. Or rather, I'm reading eight books at a time, cross-referencing info to write into this course. Tracking down the correct transliteration for the many Anishinaabowin names for the St. Lawrence River, because there are many peoples who speak a dialect of Anishinaabowin. Many peoples. And I do not speak Anishinaabowin. I know like five words.

Taking a break from the not-very-good thesis on solarpunk and looking at pics of my son. *breath* #academiclife

This thesis is frustrating. Let's just say that he's not exactly making strong points. Also, of you are going to bitch on how people define progress, perhaps you should define what you mean by progess. Just saying. #academiclife

On the train going to uni for the first time this semester. Reading an MA thesis on solarpunk, featuring tagged. It's good so far, but the candidate has yet to even write the word "cli-fi", which is an essential piece of context. Their comparison to cyberpunk is right on, but incomplete. Oh well. #trainlife #academiclife

1️⃣ I got results in English, but not in French.
2️⃣ "Underlined or Italicized"
3️⃣ Yes. I have, am and will be writing books.
4️⃣ Non-fiction, for my job. Fiction, because who else is going to write it?
@DebbieGrillo @MinDea #humpdaypost

A reader's nightmare, though for me not a surprise. My blind eye is getting blinder, the entire lens has gotten milky in the last two weeks, on top of my cataract that's getting even denser than before. It's obscuring my barely functioning nerve and stretched retina. So, yeah, blinder. The other eye is myopic but fine. #medical

No reading, and very little @Litsy, no writing fiction this week. And probably the next. I have 19 classes to write. Three done. It's very slow going. Watching art vids to clear my mind in between. Blargh.

My son loved it! It is very funny, and only moderately punny. He've heard him laugh reading it every evening since we bought it.

I'm back from vacation, and directly into an overflowing inbox and several fires to extinguish presto. I have not been reading anything at all.

Among the messages was a request to apply to the position of Dean in a small Canadian uni, one with moxie and spunk, in one of the Prairie provinces. Yeah, no. Never. Not over my dead body, not for the position, not for moving even farther west. Nope! I like that uni. I wish it the best, but NOPE!

NB fauna. #vacationlamd

#bookhaul #vacationland

Obligatory jelly fish picture. #vacationland

Rained out morning. #vacationland #sologaming

Thank you @ReadingMermaid for this. I can not believe I got this right. Then again, I learned English with grammar books, including tagged. Who knows? @LibrarianRyan thinks it's rigged.

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