Very happy with today’s mend of my nephew’s torn knee.
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Camilla Hoel
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Academic (Victorian & 20th & 21st c. literature, fans: Dickens, via Sherlock Holmes, to scifi), feminist, bibliophile, geek; regularly political. She/her.
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Joined December 17, 2022
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Suhrkamp verlag wins long-term pride game.
About a decade ago I wanted a cool fabric with a feminist scifi theme and I was not too fussed about quality. So I made this collage of old scifi covers with women. I have never used it (first found no pattern, then was annoyed at the quality of the fabric). I have decided to use it to test a pattern. I have to mix it in with some other fabric because I do not have enough for the (very fabric-hungry) pattern. But I wanted to show the fabric as a whole to people first. I kind of love it. #sewing
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@jlj@fosstodon.org Always pockets. And I never thought I would say this, but these are almost too big. Reaching my phone at the bottom of the pocket takes some reaching, and there is room for at least two of the Le Guin.
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@dec_hl@mastodon.social Haha. That would be cool. Just make sure you have aplan for it so it does not hog your drawers for ten years.
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Books read in June:
The Impossible Fortune —Richard Osman
Father May Be an Elephant And Mother Only a Small Basket, But… — Gōgu Śyāmala
Mrs Orwell — Andrea Chalupa
Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters & the Bronze Age World They Revealed — Eric H. Cline
Going Postal — Terry Pratchett
The Ancient South Asian World — Kimberly Burton Heuston & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Making Money — Terry Pratchett
Raising Steam — Terry Pratchett
The Skin and Its Girl — Sarah Cypher
Platform Decay —Martha Wells
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Imagine coming up with a nifty pottery design, and then you show it to some people, maybe sell it (or they do), and it spreads to neighbouring regions, and 5000 years later the whole period in which you live is dated based on your nifty pot.
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Read Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queernesss of Nature as my book queering nature and science. It is an odd book, located where self-help meets mycology. This comes with some content warnings. #bookstodon
Altså er de fortsatt ikke ferdige med fotball-VM? De har holdt på i evigheter.
Ooookei, så jeg har akkurat hatt en samtale med et familiemedlem som påstår at NRK har fortalt dem at Wolden Bache stormet ut av studio etter at Stray Spetalen "avslørte en måte å tjene penger på som gjør vanlige folk rike på bekostning av bankene". Dette later til å være KI-disinfo/svindel.
The thing that may actually drive down my consumption (books, it is books) is that every time I order something online I get messages in triplicate for every stage of the delivery process. From "something may soon be picked up by some mail service" to "you just picked up your mail".
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Read Gogu Shyamala’s excellent Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But… as my Dalit work that is not memoir or poetry. Captivating short (or little) stories, though I could have saved myself a lot of googling distraction if I had looked for the informative section in the back.
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@moonrabbit@sunny.garden A bit like the kintsugi masters of ancient Japan, who could no longer be trusted around unbroken porcelain?
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Read Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor as my book about storytelling. A lovely parallel tale of scifi and the writing thereof.
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Read Amy Chu and Soo Lee’s take on Carmilla as my horror from the margins. I am a horror wimp but I could manage this. Not simply an adaptation of Le Fanu, I must stress.
So, if you have ever wondered about the scatter pattern of a Chemex falling from a height of about 180cm I can confirm it is extensive.
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Read Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera as my book where the character’s gender is not fixed (here through a series of reincarnations), and I think this is the wildest ride I have been on. Delightfully so. I know some things passed me by, but while you need to be awake, this is amazing.
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Read Sarah Cypher’s marvellous The Skin and Its Girl as my queer work from/about/by someone from Palestine and wholly recommend it. It flows like a dream, and paints people rather than characters.
#bookstodon 🏳️🌈
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Read My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad as my lighthearted book from a country associated with war by the media. A Wodehousian farce which according to Azar Nafisi is mandatory reading to understand Iran. It is certainly lovely. #bookstodon
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And as my audio book featuring melodic storytelling I listened to Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth. I am new to audio books, so find it hard to judge. Interesting, at least.
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Books read in March:
Who's Afraid of Gender? -- Judith Butler
The Hands of the Emperor -- Victoria Goddard
Defying Hitler: A Memoir -- Sebastian Haffner
My Uncle Napoleon -- Iraj Pezeshkzad
Kibogo -- Scholastique Mukasonga
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed -- Eric H. Cline & Glynnis Fawkes
It Has No Name -- Payal Dhar
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature -- Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture -- Henry Jenkins
A Musical Offering -- Luis Sagasti
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@Farrell@raggedfeathers.com Me too. So much I bought three meters of the fabric with NO PLAN.
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@eivind@fribygda.no Thank you. This is never leaving my brain. Then again, it has cast out It’s a Kind of Magic, which has been touring for two months.
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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social I can take no credit for the birds. They are from Dashwood Studios’ Full Moon fabric.
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Read The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud as my rewriting of a Western classic novel, where the erasure of the Arab in Camus’ L’Étranger is revisited. #bookstodon
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Books read in April:
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire -- Priya Satia
Arid Dreams -- Duanwad Pimwana
How the World Made the West -- Josephine Quinn
Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship -- Erdmut Wizisla
Happiness -- Aminatta Forna
At the Feet of the Sun -- Victoria Goddard
Lara: The Family is Like Water -- Bernardine Evaristo
Split Tooth -- Tanya Tagaq (audio)
Death of the Author -- Nnedi Okorafor
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning -- Timothy Snyder
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Read Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara as my novel in verse. She has a poetic streak when writing prose, too, but this was lovely! A deep dive in the times and places that make up a family of disparate cultures, violation, prejudice and love. And sometimes just being a person alive in the world. #bookstodon
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Read Aminatta Forna’s Happiness as my book of people meeting across national boundaries. It is a lovely mix of urban ecology, theory of trauma, and people helping each other. Which will give you entirely the wrong idea. There are foxes! #bookstodon
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@deepmud@mas.to It does not move about, now. But it does kind of follow you around the room.
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Read Payal Dhar’s It Has No Name as my book with sports (cricket). A lovely book about being a gay teen with non-conforming gender expression in India.
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Read the always marvellous Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids as my book set in illness/pandemics. It serves a constellation of AIDS and the Lebanese civil war in a chaotic and horrifying but also funny and lovely set of characters, stories, and genres. Fragmented but wholly excellent. #bookstodon 🏳️🌈
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Read Scholastique Mukasonga’s Kibogo as my book with a devout main character. A fascinating read on stories, who tells them, syncretism and those who fear it.
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Books read in February:
Detaljerna -- Ia Genberg
Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen
Fandom Acts of Kindness: A Heroic Guide to Activism, Advocacy, and Doing Chaotic Good -- Tanya Cook & Kaela Joseph
Culture of Lies -- Dubravka Ugrešić
Party Headquarters -- Georgi Tenev
The Meursault Investigation --Kamel Daoud
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Books read in May:
The Sumerian World -- Harriet Crawford (ed.)
A History of Western Philosophy -- Bertrand Russell
Sumerian Mythology -- Samuel Noah Kramer
Jakobsbøkene, eller den store reisen over syv grenser, gjennom fem språk og tre store religioner, ikke medregnet de små -- Olga Tokarczuk
Rakesfall -- Vajra Chandrasekera
Carmilla 1-3: The First Vampire; The Last Vampire Hunter; The Eternal -- Amy Chu & Soo Lee
Carpe Jugulum -- Terry Pratchett
The Library of the Dead -- T. L. Huchu
The Truth -- Terry Pratchett
Gilgamesh -- Sophus Helle (ed/trans)
Monstrous Regiment -- Terry Pratchett
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity -- David Graeber & David Wengrow
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