Book Review - (Still) Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
Less of an autobiography and more of a series of essays, annotated to mark Wheaton's growth since they were first written. It makes me happy that Wheaton has (largely) healed from his childhood, and found a family to heal with.
Book Review - Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
A historical fiction novel about the school years of Anne Lister, of 'Gentleman Jack' fame, and her friend and lover Eliza. Painstaking detail in the research. Heartbreaking.
Book Review - The House on the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
The workplace reminds me of Gilliam's 'Brazil'; the children at the House are reminiscent of Pratchett or Tanya Huff's characters; and a romance theme as rich as Red, White, and Royal Blue. It's a lovely, sweet combination.
Book Review - Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young.
Neil Young's autobiography reads more like like his diary, with him writing about the past and present randomly, scatter-shot, back and forth. He writes as he writes his music - straight from the hip, without guile or pretense.
A picture of the cover of the novel "Daisy Jones & the Six", showing a woman from the early 1970s with long brown wavy hair.
Book Review - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The book reads like a documentary, not just in style but with such believable characters and scenarios that you find yourself trying to look them up on Wiki, or looking for the songs on Spotify.
I know very little about the man, and want to change that. I'll look for this book, thank you!
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Book Review: Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
Beautifully lyrical prose describing the ugliness in a Black family in Harlem. Every person in this book is struggling against their past, their destiny, their nature, and it rises up despite themselves.
Book cover for "The Inconvenient Indian: A curious account of Native people in North America" by Thomas King. The cover shows a Native man in a feathered headdress watching a large, modern ship approaching the shore.
Book Review-The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
The history of the colonialization of the First Nations of North America is incredibly complex, and somehow King has made it clear, with a sardonic humour that makes this book accessible and yet still gets the (painful) point across. A must read.
It's tremendous fun, and breaks the mundane season.
So now it's up to you - go forth and spread the word of Farch! /end
I've made food that looks like other food: memorably a meat loaf cooked in a cake pan and iced with mashed potatoes, and a cake decorated to look like a hamburger. My husband made a cake shaped like the symbol for pi - a pi cake. (Get it?) ...4/?
03.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I've seen fascinators shaped like Tardises, hats that were bought from the Queen's habidasher, chain mail coifs, and a fantastic dollar store hat shaped like a taco. ...3/?
03.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What's the solution? In my family, we hold a Farch party. Friends are invited over, and everyone must wear a hat of awesomeness - not your winter hat, not a ball cap, but a hat of awesomeness. ...2/?
03.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today is March 2nd, or Farch the 30th. What is Farch, you ask? Farch is the one, long, unending month that is February & March together. It is the gloomiest time of the year because the holidays are well behind and summer is well ahead. It's generally grey and cold outside and it sucks full sore. 1/
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This morning's quick reminder: generative AI is a natural resource-guzzling plagiarism machine that exploits creatives to enrich tech bros.
Do not use it to create art or writing.
Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.
There is no ethical use for AI.
Let it die.
Book Review - The Sleeping Car Porter - Suzette Mayr
Mayr's use of language captures the protagonist's hallucinatory state of mind from lack of sleep, and is exquisite, evocative, and builds characters who could be caricatures into complex humans. Brilliant.
Of course. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Book Bingo #14 - Book that was turned into a movie
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Book Bingo Square 13 - Memoir
Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
Book Bingo 2024 - Square 12 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Just awful people being awful to their siblings, then their spouses, then their children. I read it to the end, thinking that there must be a redemption arc, a resolution... but no. They just die, still bitter. Disappointing.
Book Bingo 2024 Square 11 - The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
The ending still takes my breath away.
Book Bingo 2024 - Square 10 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
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Book Bingo 2024, Square 9 - I made an X!
Book set in your home town - In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.
Book Bingo, Square 8: First book in a series - A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters.
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Book Bingo 2024 - Square 7: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Biography of someone you admire)
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For #FTH2024 I am involved in two offerings
Bidding starts March 5
Hit me up with any questions.
There are lots of other great offerings too! Go and have a look!
Here is a link to my offerings.
fth2024offerings.dreamwidth.org/211982.html
fth2024offerings.dreamwidth.org/351416.html
Book Bingo 2024, Square 6 - Away by Jane Urquhart
A dreamy, ethereal book spanning several generations and two continents.
Book Bingo 2024, 5th square: A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver.
Beautiful, impactful; to be savoured.
First line done!
Book Bingo 2024 - Square 4 - Your favourite author's first book.
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Book bingo square 1: A book you read as a child - Jean Little's Stand in the Wind.
The lesson of 'stand in the wind and eat peanut brittle' is a great anthem of resilience.
