Danielle McClellan

Danielle McClellan

@tippycanoegal.bsky.social

Opinionated enthusiast, academic editor and book reviewer living in Granada, Spain, with my family.

55 Followers 64 Following 9 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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9 months ago

I am sorry for your loss. We have a Spanish water dog named Chica who looks just like your sweet Bode. She is the love of my life.

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11 months ago
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My newest review of Katie Kitamura’s novel Audition is up at BookBrowse. It was a challenge to communicate how innovative this phenomenal book was without giving anything away to the reader. www.bookbrowse.com/mag/reviews/....

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11 months ago
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It’s the week before semana santa in Spain and teams of 30-40 costaleros are practicing carrying the procession pasos, which will weigh 1 - 2 metric tons and carry elaborate statues of Jesus and Mary down the streets here in Granada. It’s quite a sight to see.

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1 year ago
ynicism is first of all a style of presenting oneself, and it takes pride more than anything in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both these things. That the attitude that prides itself on world-weary experience is often so naïve says much about the triumph of style over substance, attitude over analysis. Maybe it also says something about the tendency to oversimplify. If simplification means reducing things to their essentials, oversimplification tosses aside the essential as well. It is a relentless pursuit of certainty and clarity in a world that generally offers neither, a desire to shove nuances and complexities into clear-cut binaries. Naïve cynicism concerns me because it flattens out the past and the future, and because it reduces the motivation to participate in public life, public discourse, and even intelligent conversation that distinguishes shades of gray, ambiguities and ambivalences, uncertainties, unknowns, and opportunities. Instead, we conduct our conversations like wars, and the heavy artillery of grim confidence is the weapon many reach for.

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

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1 year ago
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My latest book review is up on BookBrowse. This was a fun assignment. They asked us to highlight lesser known classics published before 2000. I reviewed the novel “Hideous Kinky” by Esther Freud.

www.bookbrowse.com/mag/btb/inde...

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1 year ago
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This statue of Goya popped up on plaza nueva recently. I understand that other statues are placed around town, but this is the only one I have stumbled upon. I love living in Granada.

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1 year ago

Yikes! Hurry. We are all getting desperate for an alternative!

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1 year ago
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This month I’m participating in the Draw Together with Wendy Mac practice on Substack. Its pulling this non-artist way out of her comfort zone, but I’m loving the community and discovering new ways to see the world around me.

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1 year ago
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This weekend, my son, Nico, and his girlfriend, Ari, made flores manchegas, a Spanish version of Swedish rosette cookies, also made with a metal mold dipped in batter then deep-fried. They were surprisingly light and delicious. #food #spanishdesserts

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1 year ago
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I’m happy to be newly here on Bluesky, and hoping to talk books, food, and politics, but why am I seeing so many cats in my suggested feed? I like cats I suppose, but I’m a dog person. Posting a photo of my dog Poppy in hopes of tweaking the algorithm

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