Amy Brown

I'm curious too - sometime I'll stop into the bookstore and see if they're all like that. (Although it's likely at least a few of them are, I guess. )

Right??

Yes I came here to say this, none of my group chats would understand.

I'm taking a university course. I paid $130 for a textbook which is published by Oxford University Press.

The page numbers are in the gutter and the even-numbered pages are on the right.

MY $130 OUP TEXTBOOK IS BOUND WRONG.

I'm losing my mind. This is the last straw. I'm done.

I haven't been here because I was off socials for a few days and enjoyed the head-empty feeling so much I didn't want it to end. If you want to be in touch, email works. I also have a monthly newsletter with book reviews and other fun stuff.

IU is built different

No way! That's unheard-of. Apparently the US postal service is simply not accepting things for Canada.

Ooh, a compelling possibility!

How curious! I wonder if it is a new / weird / cheap binding.

I got a POD book with a flimsy cover recently, but as you say, some of them are solid quality.

Happy birthday! 💐🧋

The pfeffernusse glazing process: in the foreground, a glass bowl with several light brown nut-shaped cookies in a puddle of white glaze flecked with anise seeds, and a pair of shiny salad tongs that I use to toss the cookies in the glaze. In the background, glazed cookies set on a parchment-lined baking tray.

'Tis the season to glaze pfeffernusse at 10:00 pm because I just realized they need to be ready on Saturday morning for the choir bake sale.

Your Xmas pud is still happily marinating in your package, ready to be mailed when they finally get sorted. (I hope they get a good contract!)

Omg I can't believe it bounced! I thought it would just sit somewhere. Although now that I think about it, it's not like they have infinite warehouse space.

Apparently lately some publishers are using print-on-demand technology which produces shitty-feeling books with cheap covers. Could that be what's happened?

"I support K-pop, but I also support democracy." Girl, me too

This book had me crying behind the couch. I was so scared

I'm torn between "cheese should be affordable because cheese is delicious" and "cheese should be expensive because it's so carbon-intensive". But bad cheese shouldn't exist at any price.

Illustration courtesy of Krafton. Four travelers in a jungle, one of them is a gigantic bipedal rooster. He is not the bird that drinks tears in question.

Please welcome @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social to Bluesky!

I am translating a gigantic fantasy tetralogy for them titled THE BIRD THAT DRINKS TEARS by Lee Young-do, with a game from Montreal’s Krafton to be released around the same time. www.kbook-eng.or.kr/sub/trend.ph...

Thank you; I do I know a bunch of things — which makes the things I don't know all the more annoying!

TIL a prepositional phrase is not the same as a phrasal preposition. 😭 I definitely should have taken the grammar class at TMU.

My friend Elizabeth explained it, and I will study her explanation, but it feels like I'll need the corkboard and red string to really understand it!

Let it be known that we were all correct in our pronunciation of the mutual nose-touching behavior description "Boops boops boops Boops boops," as proposed by fish research biologist Kate Richerson

A knitted beanie hat in blue and green wool with the outline of the americas, africa, and W europe. a white edge represents antarctica

a knitted beanie hat in blue for the ocean and green for the land, showin australia, new zealand, and eastern asia, with a white edge for antarctica.

I suppose all those people following me from some geo starter pack might appreciate my "Hemisphere" map hat.

I looked it up while I was doing an assignment: It smells like a preposition ("anywhere a cat can go") but when I looked it up to confirm, M-W says it's an adverb (modifying, e.g., "set").

Maybe "aside from" is a prepositional phrase? @elizdanjou.bsky.social, help! 😅

It's okay, I'm looking for replies!

We're brilliant!

No. No-one ever has to count Charlie Puth. (Sorry Charlie.)

One of my favourite tricks if you have this specific blender: Put your whipping cream in a mason jar and whip it right in the jar — the whisk attachment fits in perfectly. Then, in the unlikely event that you have leftover whipped cream you can just pop it in the fridge (and rewhip later).

Yes, and specifically this one! I've had mine for over a decade.