Fabulous speech - upsetting the fragile sensibilities of the colonisers (see end). “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed firmly on our past”.
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Library Director, bookworm and sometime reviewer (Australian Book Review, Jacobin, Overland), PhD in Irish modernist literature. Wurundjeri country
Fabulous speech - upsetting the fragile sensibilities of the colonisers (see end). “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed firmly on our past”.
youtu.be/wS5cO6bSQI4?...
Writer George Saunders on the sacking of the Librarian of Congress
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Trump has just fired the Librarian of Congress.
Hayden is an Obama appointee who he met when she was working at the Chicago Public Library. She has been leading an initiative to bring more Black, indigenous, Hispanic Asian American works into the collection.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
We’re in town to watch Joan of Arc at the Stake!
12.03.2025 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Colm Tóibín introducing three books that deal with the drama of migration. My first thought was well Raymond Williams’s Border Country. My second thought was you won’t recommend that will you Colm because Williams is so underrated these days, especially his novels.
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Cat Power sings Dylan set list from 1966 Albert Hall concert. Was rather special.
08.03.2025 05:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Guess which is my great great grandfather
26.02.2025 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Colm Tóibín‘s latest gets a shellacking in NYRB.
22.02.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really fine work about mothers and daughters. Memories rise around leaving her daughters for several years when they are young and then returning several years later. Leaving so as not to sacrifice her own needs to her love for them and returning as part of same.
15.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sailing
01.02.2025 06:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just finished this - involved Christian fanatics, mental illness, Lech Walesa, pubs in country Qld, ‘bogans’ vs ‘elites’, complicated family relations. Quite the page turner.
29.01.2025 07:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Younger still. First motorcycle taken in country Queensland where my father ran a pub.
27.01.2025 18:34 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Unique styling but not the best handling - a high centre of gravity.
27.01.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0From when I was young and rode a motorcycle
27.01.2025 07:45 — 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0Day of reading for me: finished the Leslie Jamison book Recovery, read a bit more Brothers K, and read a 100 pages of the new Lech Blaine book - now off to reading group to continue the Octavia Butler Lilith’s Brood trilogy.
26.01.2025 07:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Retrieved some old photos tonight. First car I owned.
31.12.2024 10:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A reading year
29.12.2024 02:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I received sailing lessons for Xmas.
27.12.2024 00:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The only list we need.
23.12.2024 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Officially on summer break.
20.12.2024 06:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me after writing one (1) sentence in my writing hut
16.12.2024 23:16 — 👍 450 🔁 57 💬 11 📌 6Humanities academic here. Here are the top 10 books you should feel bad about not having read in 2024
19.12.2024 00:44 — 👍 109 🔁 10 💬 19 📌 3Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
Now Human Rights Watch is saying it
19.12.2024 08:18 — 👍 121 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 2Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 19
Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War - @versobooks.bsky.social November 2024
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18
Oh dammit, do I need to subscribe to Paris Review now? I do, don’t I.
17.12.2024 00:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This looks good www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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