Scary dystopian future...
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New book from Robert Harris. Intriguing.
New book from Robert Harris. Intriguing.
#hiddenhistories
Post ww1 ethnic/ religious "cleansing" of states.
This book keeps listing other authors I want to read... (and making me want to travel, of course)
I told him a story about a party I once attended, at which a man called me by another woman‘s name all night, mistaking me for her, maybe because she did the same sort of work as me. I didn‘t correct him, though we had met many times before. I tried to find it in myself to be insulted, to feel as others feel, to care as they would care, but instead I felt a strange lightness, like I‘d given myself the slip for the evening.
Somewhere in his imagination there existed a perfect crime scene....
His outburst years back.... that 'This isn't fucking CSI Miami,' had since become an unofficial police motto...
'...regretted that he had also expressed in it the opinion that Wadsworth's work reminded him 'of warm cabbage water'.
Ouch.
1912: not a great time to cut your hair and forget your hat in Paris, apparently.
Mark Gertler, in his second year at the Slade.
In a book full of bonkers elite types, this pun tickled me.
(Sir Reginald Bullying Manner...)
She walked through the city struck by these strange partnerships of the soft and the hard. In shops, in restaurants, in line at the CVS. She always had the same question. Why in God‘s name are you still married to this asshole? Lady, your children are grown. You have your own credit cards. You‘re the one with life force. Can‘t you see he‘s just a piece of the furniture? It‘s not 1850. This is New York. Run, baby, run!
What sort of fiction?
Popular. Likes a bit of sensation.
Who doesn't?
Ew. Maybe I won't book that 19th c time machine after all.
They said, This might look like a war between men and women, but what this really is is the last siege of a ruling class. See Brett up there making that little bitchbaby face? See that? That‘s the face a baby makes when you try and take his rattle away. We‘ve had many, many babies so we‘re familiar. America being the rattle in this analogy.
... on one occasion, a book, held only for the duration of the photograph and – though perhaps only I noticed this – upside down. As they prep, each wears a heartbreaking pair of plain black spectacles. Once each girl is ready to pose, she hands her glasses to her sister. It is easy to say they make being young look like hard work, but wasn‘t it always hard work, even if the medium of its difficulty was different?
Anyone want to be in #Liverpool a week on Friday? I have a ticket to see Colm Toibin and am double booked. Boo.
#freeticket
(Pic of the old home for destitute children, now student halls)
#Liverpoolbookfest
Currently reading and new acquisitions...
Record must be made, I said, of his actions in France. Hornstrake protested. The archers‘ commanders, and such clerics as accompanied the English military in France, had promised them that their cause was just, God approved their invasion, and acts committed by the archers in the course of the war that would normally be considered homicide, or arson, or robbery, were sanctified...
The bowmen went up a kind of street between two rows of telds, crowded by sellers who‘d have them buy bunches of heart‘s ease, baby aquerns and squabs in wicker baskets, puddings, eels brad on the gledes, saffron cakles, pomanders, clogs, silver tokens and rattles.
Picture from York's Shambles (old shopping streets) today.
pickPretty sure my flower arranging would not have cut the mustard in Gilead...
Brilliant book: didn't want to put it down, didn't want to go to work, felt like reading through my fingers at points (especially...
"No one becomes a racist or antiracist. We can only strive to be one or the other.... Like fighting an addiction, being an antiracist requires permanent self-awareness, constant self-criticism, and regular self-examination."
Not in the catalogue: "Sensible Footwear". Charlesworth's brilliant comic look at growing up gay ( born in 1950s northern Britain).
Takei's parents emerge as the heroes in this book, protecting him and his siblings from the worst of internment.
You can't be a flâneur in suburbia...
Found this at a book sale today. Nice rural read in a beautifully rural location.
Mad drained a can. ‘I mayn‘t sing for them no more,‘ he said. ‘I feel the Latin carve shapes in me, like to it takes the rough ridges of my heart, where seeds might take root, and smooths and edges them to floor a church...
My apple for lunch was almost cut as the wrong shade of green. Should have gone with the tangerine (but I ate it already).
The book is good so far, btw.
THE STIR WAS made by two friars of Gloucester. One drove a cart and the other banged a drum. The priest came to fight them, for none but he had the right to shrive the folk of Outen Green, and he‘d rather die than see Christ‘s love sold cheap, or for a halfpenny less than he sold it, anywise.
As an octogenarian, she recounted this to me, showing me the picture...
pickBeautiful book about books.
pickAmazing book! Raven and Sarah are back to solve another case amidst the gore of 19c Scottish medicine. And the muck of 1850s Edinburgh, awash with poverty, disease and hypocrisy. I love toothat the authors thank the map digitisation projects at the National Library of Scotland.
(Stockbridge, my photo, from a recent visit)
They don't have my book in the catalogue!
Blue forget-me-nots were her favourite flowers. I told her that they're called 'remember' in German and 'don't forget me' in English...
Even the chicken likes this book...
...large enough to accommodate my library, which by then had grown to thirty-five thousand books. I thought that once the books had found their place, I would find mine.
Loved it! One of those books that makes you think about an issue - I can't say I ever much wondered about AI but I'm now wondering what I can read about it!
The cathedral (minster) sits in the middle of the city, like a painted backdrop from a medieval set that someone has forgotten to pack away.
York library. Rather nice.
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