pickOriginally read two essays for a class and then decided to read all of them. As all essay collections, somewhat uneven. Overall a pick, though, and I was especially amused that 90% had at least one paragraph complaining about Foucault (The History of Sexuality was pretty wrong about the medieval era.)
On the last essay, and finally able to have some opinions, because Old Norse.
I feel like 93% of the Edward II mentions I read forget that his main problem wasn't that he had male lovers, but that he was stupid about it (and also about everything else). Also, Isabella of France had a name.
Friday #Pride book recs!
Ace and Intersex books are not very common. Here are three each I recommend.
Ace = A-sexual this is such a scale! Angela Chen's nonfiction book Ace helped me so much to understand that range. I really recommend it.
**I originally added a book that after more research (I read it years ago before I knew better) appears to be harmful. This is an updated graphic.
A) I'm begging for a translation from Middle English quotes. I realize this is a textbook, but you can't assume everyone is a full-fledged medievalist already. I read Latin easier than thisse boulleshet.
B) 85F (30°c) in the shade doesn't help.
I actually still like the book a lot. just fucking. translate the Middle English.
“human mating behavior delights & amuses us
& galvanizes our gossip, but it is also deeply disturbing.”
I love nonfiction so much guys📚
I can‘t wait until I get my hands on the 2016 edition!
#firstlinefriday #nonfiction #bibliophile
#psychology #uncommon #librarybooks
so-soOh boy. It ends in a "meh" despite the subject being extremely interesting, mostly b/c the intro and chapter 1 weren't quite on topic; Frantzen is in literature, not history, so for him the narrative is important enough to spend a chapter on 19th c opera. That said, the bits about Anglo-Saxon England and how later texts reflected it? Awesome.
Photo from Friday; today was so rainy I had to finish the book at the gym after the coffee shop closed.
"unlike me, an intellectual, those stupid basic Kushner fans don't notice the true depth of Angels."
Maybe I'm being uncharitable, but nothing in Frantzen's style of writing so far, 95% through the book, leads me to any other way of interpreting that quote.
Why why why was a typeface where the eth, the wynn, and the thorn are all so ugly and mismatched chosen for a book full of quotes in Old English?
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