I’m just getting started on a biography of P.G. Wodehouse. Not bad so far!
I’m just getting started on a biography of P.G. Wodehouse. Not bad so far!
I was the same, I didn’t really see the point of them until I tried out my sister’s eBook reader. Then I was sold!
Also, while I still prefer physical books, I can’t deny that it’s nice to just be able to carry my entire library around in a bag.
I can appreciate that they’re in a somewhat difficult position, with the law on one side and what’s morally right on the other side, but also this is exactly the sort of scenario where everyone needs to band together to demonstrate that an unjust law won’t fly, and IMO trying to weasel out of it with a half-measure is just appeasing the wrong side.
In an ideal world all the libraries, schools and publishing companies would just ignore this and carry whatever books they see fit, and give the legislators a choice to either back off or go after them all at the same time.
This is one I’ve been meaning to read for ages! I really liked The Disposessed and The Left Hand Of Darkness, but that’s as far as I’ve gotten with Ursula Le Guin so far.
The North Korea section of the book was so creepy, I still think about that from time to time.
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that -”
"No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
Yeah me too! November 1st I sit down and every idea leaves my brain immediately lol
I’m working my way through Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes because I’m on a kind of Neanderthal thing lately lol.
I was thinking of trying that (again lol) this year, so that would be really handy!
It really is a “give an inch, take a mile” kind of thing. Like as a society we’re already ridiculously generous to religious people - every city has multiple, un-taxed, absurdly opulent buildings for them to use as much as they want to do whatever they like in, plus there are huge networks of religious schools that get tax-payer funding as well, and they’re still out in the streets preaching and interfering with almost every other aspect of existence - shutting down libraries, getting films banned or altered, messing with politics etc. It’s ludicrous IMO.
I own it but haven’t read it yet, but apparently Edith Grossman’s translation of Don Quixote is supposed to be great. Also I just learned she died a couple of weeks ago, RIP.
I made an account on Bookwyrm and I’m for sure going to use it, I just need to actually get all my books logged on there first so I have to wait until I’ve got more free time.
For the show, the beginning of the 2005 revival is probably a good place to start! The first couple of seasons are probably a bit dated now but still good, and they treat it as kind of a soft reboot because it had had been off the air for ~15 years at that point so it’s designed for new viewers to drop in without having to know all the backstory and stuff.
As for the books I have no idea lol. There are quite a lot of those IIRC.
I am convinced that there’s not a book written that can’t be improved by the addition of a Sassy Robot Sidekick.
Doctor Who is good for the second one too, that’s basically the Doctor’s whole deal that they never carry a weapon and just try to talk their way through everything. Although they will fuck someone up if they get pushed too far lol.
I was going to say Ursula Le Guin but someone beat me to it lol.
So instead: I haven’t read all of her books yet, but I’ve really liked everything by Emily St. John Mandel that I’ve read so far. Station Eleven was great (and the TV series is even better somehow!) and Sea of Tranquility was super interesting.
Good for them. They’ve been there for over 450 years, it should be on the Olympics to work around them IMO.
I might have a similar situation coming up, but I think what I’m going to do is essentially just get rid of most of my books and then try to re-acquire them at the other end of the move. Apart from a few specific ones where the physical book itself is important, like a couple of signed copies I have and some well-worn ones that I’ve had forever.
I’m also working on cataloging everything in BookWyrm so I can keep track of what needs replacing. Bit of a pain but I just don’t think I can physically transport that many books.
I actually had no idea because I always bring things back on time because I’m a square lol, but I looked it up and apparently they got rid of them during the pandemic.
For the new year, I’m going to try a thing based on a Ray Bradbury quote:
So far I’ve only got half of one 'cause it’s the first week of January, but I’m going to see how far I can get with it.