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From the amazing host of the card swap @TheBookHippie

Thanks fellow #MittenLitten for all the CLOUD items! Hopefully they offer more shade than rain. ☺️

Possibly the best bar for Littens in New Zealand is The Library Bar in Wellington. Lots of spaces to read! Lots of old books! Very cool staff who look like they know a book or two or three…

I love how vintage everything is including the jazz they were playing.

Forgot to post this when i was there but highly recommend if youre an NZ Litten or visiting 😍

A blend of traditional and futuristic!

In light of my recent bookcase drama, I would opt for BUILT-IN bookshelves. Preferably “smart” shelves that would have a way to create a real-time database of the books on every shelf. These would be on two walls. One wall would be windows facing west. The last wall would be the door, a replicator for drinks, and the console for the ambient sound system.

Comfy chairs and a basket of blankets.

#sundayfunday

OMG - this thumb drive is too cute!

https://topatoco.com/products/uns-ccusb?variant=39583213455

I would usually wait a bit before posting my favorites of the year, however I started looking at my GR account & before I knew it I already had quite a few books that I wanted to include on my list for the year., I noticed a few posts of 22 of '22. I decided to post my 25 favorites of the year. Honorable mentions go to Nelly Sachs' “Flight & Metamorphosis,“ “Janet Malcolm's “In the Freud Archives,“ William Gresham's “Nightmare Alley“. Also, I am

The physical object is like a sketchbook full of bits of text pasted in plus bits of mostly abstract art. It‘s a retelling of an ancient play: Euripides‘ Herakles, translated rather loosely by the brilliant Anne Carson who incorporates scenes from today, from Chernobyl, from 1920s Russia and more. The tragedy comes through like a Minotaur through the heart. And still manages to end with some hope. #CanLit #poetry #multigenre

Recent Reads… with puppets! #skodenreadathon #audiobooks #theatre #booktube #knitting
https://youtu.be/ERiY3LDFZNg

you go read a novel by Jane
Austen — avoiding Mansfield Park whose inane
final paragraph tucks the death of Dr Grant inbetween
a newlywed hero and heroine.

This defies characterization. It‘s a poem, a play, a retelling, a translation, an art collection. Anne Carson has once again created something special and enduring. This is another library book that I‘m immediately ordering my own copy of. #BBRCAdultAnIndieBookByATraditionallyPublishedAuthor #Booked2022ThinkGreek @LibrarianRyan @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen

Carson's mixed media translation of Euripides' Herakles is a postmodernist spin on one of the most tragic stories of heroism from the ancient Greeks. Herakles of Hera, our titular character, has returned from a decade of the Labours. As H admits after enumerating the challenges he has faced, "the list of my Labours looks philanthropic for about the first half then begins drifting towards trophyism." Upon his return home he has to address ?