Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.
This link opens in a pop-up window
This epic, sub-titled ‘The Decline of a Family’, was Mann’s first novel, published in 1901. …
Here's one time I've really regretted using Bookwyrm becaune I did not know, did not want to know the subtitle of this book. (My edition doesn't have it.) I like just starting reading on page one and see where the story takes me.
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our …
I embarked on a reread of this. No promises I'll finish
The "26 books" were really a wild mix of lengthn from long things like Grapes of Wrath and Remembrance to a bunch of these "one short story in one single tiny book" books. This was a good one.
Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden för skogen och …
My current audio book
I accidentally picked up a non-fiction book 😰 I usually read her novels but here is her true story.
my new audio book after Anne GG
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published …
Not sure why I'm counting audio dramas as books and maybe that needs to change when they're this significantly different (I think. Because I hadn't read this book before. The only book where I've both heard the drama and read the book is Pet Sematary and those were wildly different). But I enjoyed listening to this story.
I started reading a bunch of books; the "pile of 26" having been thoroughly comingled with my preëxisting to-read–pile at this point, the distinction only existing as a vague memory (and this particular France book is not from the 26); but no matter how many books I've started, my recent-ish policy is to only list them as "start read" on here once I'm a few chapters in and that's so far only true for this book. I'm reading Hjalmar Söderberg's 1905 translation from French to Swedish and my hardcover copy is from actual 1905?! I'm holding a 120 year old object in my hands! It's before the spelling reform which I didn't think I'd get used to as quickly as I did. Loving the book and writing style so far. Intense characters conveyed succintly.
Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, …
I found an old muji diary where I learned that it was 2023-10-09 I started this book. But I finished it today
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust …
Oh no I loved it and have a glowing review written in my techō but then I found out that not only was another writer's research snarfed in making this, Steinbeck also supported and advocated for the war in Karelia that took everything from my family in the thirties. (I mean I wouldn't've been born if that hadn't happened but it still stings in spite of that.) I was like this is such a good depiction of how the market behemoth wrecks lives with no human at the wheel, the tractor appropriations such an interesting parallel to the brutal Soviet communalizations etc etc and then he couldn't see that he was supporting the same thing. I wanted to give the book to some family members saying see how closely this matches up with our own oral history. But now I don't want to since Steinbeck IRL was a cheerleader of …
Oh no I loved it and have a glowing review written in my techō but then I found out that not only was another writer's research snarfed in making this, Steinbeck also supported and advocated for the war in Karelia that took everything from my family in the thirties. (I mean I wouldn't've been born if that hadn't happened but it still stings in spite of that.) I was like this is such a good depiction of how the market behemoth wrecks lives with no human at the wheel, the tractor appropriations such an interesting parallel to the brutal Soviet communalizations etc etc and then he couldn't see that he was supporting the same thing. I wanted to give the book to some family members saying see how closely this matches up with our own oral history. But now I don't want to since Steinbeck IRL was a cheerleader of that particular "special operation". Also the translation was so good but then the translation notes had anti-Apache stereotypes. so tiresome
"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what …
I'm gonna put a bookmark in where I'm at (the Woolf essay) and put it in storage because I don't feel like reading on right now. I don't know of the fault is with the author, the translator, or both. It's not a hard DNF, just an indefinite hiatus. Although I usually keep a bookmark in even with much harder DNF's like Gentlemen or Studie i mänskligt beteende; those books I more thoroughly disliked where this is a more mixed bag of mostly good.
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published …
Content warning Character trait commented upon obliquely; no plots or events or even which character(s)
My new audiobook after Sense & Sensibility. Not into it 😐 but I do appreciate seeing neurodiverse women in fiction 🙃
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw …
Reading in digital. To me the fact that starts as late as 2009 makes it offputting. Facebook had been my enemy for years already at that point.
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son …
A comfort listen when I was too sick to read
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust …
Started yday. About two thirds through now
The right shelf is called "read" apparently which I mistook for present tense
