A little bit of escapism at the end of the week. Time to read a good book.
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Abendunterhaltung mit James, Marcel und Thomas. Und Edwin, natürlich.
𝙷𝚎𝚝𝚔𝚒 𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚓𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚞𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚊 𝚔𝚒𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚔𝚎𝚜𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚕ä
Silent Book Club on jotenkin upea konsepti. Olen päässyt osallistumaan sekä Oulussa että Tampereella, ja ihana kun pääsee tarkoituksellisesti istumaan kirjan kanssa hetkeksi lukemaan.
Tänään kävin Tampereella. Hiukan myöhästyin, pahoittelut siitä kanssakulkijoille, mutta rauhassa vaan takki pois, kirja käteen ja lukemaan. Itsellä luvussa tällä hetkellä viime syksynä suomeksi ilmestynyt Jennifer L. Armentroutin Verestä ja tuhkasta (kirja saatu arvostelukappaleena Karistolta) jota olisin voinut jäädä lukemaan pidemmäksikin aikaa. (Tästä on muuten juuri ilmestynyt toinen osa suomeksi).
Ootko käynyt Silent Book Clubissa? Sellainen voi löytyä myös omasta kaupungistasi!
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Silent Book Club is a nice concept, amazing to purposefully sit down with a book just to read. Have you attended? Is there one in your town?
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Silent Book Club on jotenkin upea konsepti. Olen päässyt osallistumaan sekä Oulussa että Tampereella, ja ihana kun pääsee tarkoituksellisesti istumaan kirjan kanssa hetkeksi lukemaan.
Tänään kävin Tampereella. Hiukan myöhästyin, pahoittelut siitä kanssakulkijoille, mutta rauhassa vaan takki pois, kirja käteen ja lukemaan. Itsellä luvussa tällä hetkellä viime syksynä suomeksi ilmestynyt Jennifer L. Armentroutin Verestä ja tuhkasta (kirja saatu arvostelukappaleena Karistolta) jota olisin voinut jäädä lukemaan pidemmäksikin aikaa. (Tästä on muuten juuri ilmestynyt toinen osa suomeksi).
Ootko käynyt Silent Book Clubissa? Sellainen voi löytyä myös omasta kaupungistasi!
📚
Silent Book Club is a nice concept, amazing to purposefully sit down with a book just to read. Have you attended? Is there one in your town?
#silentbookclub #silentbookclubtampere #silentbookcluboulu #reading #curentlyreading #currentread #bookclub #lukutunti #lukuviikko
Stanley’s work has been a North Star for me through years of deconstructing, rebuilding, and figuring things out (though I’m 99% sure he’d side-eye the “deconstructing” label 😂). Grateful for voices that challenge and shape us, even when they’d never claim to. Time to disappear into these pages!
New running shoes? Cool. Latest tech gadget? Fun. But nothing—seriously, nothing—hits like a fresh book arriving at my door. 📚✨ Just got the next read off my list, and I’m obsessed.
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is a 1400 page novel that defies description. Originally published in serial form, I read the Everyman’s edition, which described it as the story of Jean Valjean, and insofar as his story anchors the narrative throughout, that is an accurate description.
But the novel is really epic in proportion, weaving many characters lives together while trying to capture the moment of revolution and the lead up to it.
It is a deep reflection on society and humanity, starting from a reflection on the impact that those who act selflessly can have on the community around them, the corrupting rather than reformative power of the modern carceral system, how a cruel society creates the very people it identifies as aberrations.
While its digressions can at times become tedious, the narrative overall is captivating, propulsive, and in terms of its social commentary, remains deeply relevant to our society today. Perhaps because, despite our striving, we remain in the modern era that Hugo wrote about.
I’ll be spending the next two months on this momentous novel. Come along if you like.
QOTD: Have you read Les Miserables?
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But the novel is really epic in proportion, weaving many characters lives together while trying to capture the moment of revolution and the lead up to it.
It is a deep reflection on society and humanity, starting from a reflection on the impact that those who act selflessly can have on the community around them, the corrupting rather than reformative power of the modern carceral system, how a cruel society creates the very people it identifies as aberrations.
While its digressions can at times become tedious, the narrative overall is captivating, propulsive, and in terms of its social commentary, remains deeply relevant to our society today. Perhaps because, despite our striving, we remain in the modern era that Hugo wrote about.
I’ll be spending the next two months on this momentous novel. Come along if you like.
QOTD: Have you read Les Miserables?
#worldliterature #Frenchliterature #cozyread #VictorHugo #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #lesmiserables #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
I’m sure you all have seen the TikTok debates about whether books are political or not. In the case of José Rizal and his body of work, his two novels were not only resoundingly political and anticolonial, but Rizal himself was executed by the Spanish colonial regime in the Philippines not because he was a part of the planning of the Philippine Revolution of 1896 (He was not), but because of his novels. The military claimed his novels had incited the revolution.
Imagine being such a powerful storyteller that a corrupt state decides to execute Yu on the grounds that your novels moved people to action. That is the power of storytelling and literature.
Of course, this story remains deeply resonant and relevant not only to the Philippines, but in the U.S., where efforts to ban books rage on, revealing how threatened some officials feel by the power of storytelling even as we’re told that studying literature is frivolous.
Remember José Rizal, and take some comfort in knowing the power of words and the power of communication to effect change.
There is undoubtedly more to be said about the relationship between the novel and the nation, but I’ll leave this month’s series at: I hope you’ll consider reading Rizal.
#worldliterature #Filipinoliterature #cozyread #joserizal #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #nolimetangere #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
Imagine being such a powerful storyteller that a corrupt state decides to execute Yu on the grounds that your novels moved people to action. That is the power of storytelling and literature.
Of course, this story remains deeply resonant and relevant not only to the Philippines, but in the U.S., where efforts to ban books rage on, revealing how threatened some officials feel by the power of storytelling even as we’re told that studying literature is frivolous.
Remember José Rizal, and take some comfort in knowing the power of words and the power of communication to effect change.
There is undoubtedly more to be said about the relationship between the novel and the nation, but I’ll leave this month’s series at: I hope you’ll consider reading Rizal.
#worldliterature #Filipinoliterature #cozyread #joserizal #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #nolimetangere #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
My current read! Finally getting around to reading this book!
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I'm currently reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. This book is set in France during WWII, and it follows the lives of two sisters: Vianne and Isabelle.
Although I started reading this book at the beginning of last week, I've only made it to 15%. However, now that I've immersed myself into the book, I hope that I'll read at a faster pace. I definitely can't wait to see the development of Vianne and Isabelle as sisters and as individuals who are both suffering through the War.
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Although I started reading this book at the beginning of last week, I've only made it to 15%. However, now that I've immersed myself into the book, I hope that I'll read at a faster pace. I definitely can't wait to see the development of Vianne and Isabelle as sisters and as individuals who are both suffering through the War.
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Current read: The Overstory by Richard Powers. Intricate, moving, and powerful
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My current read is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This is a historical, horror book that takes place in post-colonial Mexico.
The only other book that I've read that seems similar is Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas.
I'm hoping that the horror aspect is not the focus since I'm still getting used to reading books with horror in them.
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The only other book that I've read that seems similar is Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas.
I'm hoping that the horror aspect is not the focus since I'm still getting used to reading books with horror in them.
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#Pixelfed #bookfed #booktok #bookstagram #bookcommunity #booklover #reader #bookish #book #kindle #fictionbook #historicalfiction #horrorbook #currentread
Current read: The Idea of You by Robinne Lee (I have a 6 month old who keeps me busy, so it’s audiobooks only for me at the moment!) #books #currentread #newparent
Romantasy Love is Blind with a Fae MMC and a Shadow Mommy Vampire FMC
Enjoying precious but simple insight into the way we all do life from my #currentread, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett:
“But what about the play?” Emily asks, her impossible legs over the back of the couch. Emily has never been able to sit on furniture like a normal person. I lost the fight when she was still a child. Whoever installed her interior compass put the magnet in upside down.”
#MorningPages 14 November 2024
24. Brumaire honoring the Orange, Wilma Mankiller b. 1945
#Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-Star - silver, EF
#ink Wearingeul Sedna
#tarot or #OracleCards Secret Pocket Oracle Deluxe Seance edition
#CardOfTheDay 65 Dove - peace, a time of harmony, friendship, healing
#CurrentRead The Witch-cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray and Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis
![Open notebook with handwritten text from the post in the middle of the page with additional text: from Plant Lore Legends & Lyrics: “Both Spenser and Milton held the opinion that the Orange is the veritable" golden Apple" presented by Juno to Jupiter on the day of their nuptials; hence, perhaps, the association of the Orange with marriage rites. This golden fruit grew only in the garden of the Hesperides, situated near Mount Atlas in Africa, where they were carefully tended by the three daughters of Hesperus—Ægle, Arethusa, and Erythia—and guarded by an ever- sleeping dragon. It was one of the labours of Hercules, to obtain some of these golden Apples. After slaying the dragon, he succeeded in plucking the auriferous [gold-bearing] fruit, and took them to Eurystheus, but they were afterwards carried back to the garden of the Hesperides by Minerva, as they could not be preserved elsewhere. Milton alludes to the Orange as a tree ‘Whose fruit, burnished with golden rind. Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste.’” Above the text is a playing card-sized card depicting a dove with a spring of olive in its mouth all in blues and purples (the card fluoresces under black light) and a swatch showing a medium blue ink. Below the text is a silver fountain pen with a black loop clip.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/482/182/230/386/419/original/6e7236011a9cc5ec.png)
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