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why aren't the robots doing mundane tasks for us? why are they writing and drawing? they want to be me so bad...

Scraps of blue fabric piled in a little heap.

Scraps of blue fabric layered on top of each other and attached using a running stitch. Someone has their hands on the fabric, seemingly smoothing it out.

A close up of kantha fabric. Shows the stitching.

Japanese boro. Shows layers of blue scrap fabric attached using running stitches.

kantha is a south asian technique for recycling scrap fabric. it was originally used at a time when fabric was very precious. the technique involves attaching layers of scrap material using a running stitch (pics 1, 2 and 3). it's similar to japanese boro (pic 4).

Under Siege

Here on the slopes of hills.
Facing the dusk
And the canon of time
Close to the garden of broken shadows
We do what prisoners do.
And what the jobless do:
We cultivate hope.

—Mahmoud Darwish

#Bookbirds

Painted image of a tall white figure facing left dressed in a long green robe with yellow hair in a horizontal streak, behind five black birds fly in a line towards the left in front of a full moon, the background is shadowy purple and undefined

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald

I feel like the absolutely absence of posts about holding space for defying gravity on this site is mind blowing and unacceptable

We’ve done it! First starter pack: Books Podcasts. We’ve added some of our favourites, but who have we missed?

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Ten haunting, atmospheric novellas I highly recommend November seems to be a very popular time for themed cultural events, ranging from German Lit Month (which focus on books originally written in the German language) and #Noirvember (a tradition of w…

New on the blog today, I've written about ten haunting, atmospheric novellas I highly recommend.

Featuring books by J. L. Carr, Yūko Tsushima, Jhumpa Lahiri, Hanne Ørstavik & more! #BookSky #NovNov 💙📚

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Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming From tales of alienation to comforting novels set in bookshops, Japanese authors have written nearly half of this year’s bestselling translated novels in the UK. What’s their secret?

“It’s not like cat books are huge in Japan. It’s not as big a thing as is being made out in the UK.”

Japanese fiction is booming here. But is a golden age turning into a glut? I spoke to readers, translators, editors and agents about why it's so popular, and how Murata is the new Murakami:

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

So pretty! 🥰

You collapse in the street and as you come round, the first thing you see is a circle of grinning Louis Wain cats looking down at you and chanting this. #folkhorror

thinking about this W.S. Merwin poem (“Rain Light”)

Started a starter pack!

Intro of the day HT @helenlewis.bsky.social
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Would read a novel about a writer who gets included in a Starter Pack with a load of other writers he considers inferior.

Got back on excel for a bit and yes the old timer is still superior no matter what anyone says

So good to be here! 😊

Hello! I missed your tables. So glad to be back!

Same ♾️

This coming year I plan to finally resume posting the books I read *fingers crossed*

Excited to see the thriving literary community here. Thanks to the efforts of people like @paperpills10.bsky.social 🩶

A booklover’s treat – some literary houses! As I mentioned in my post about John Piper, I spent a lovely rainy Sunday in August browsing some large, mainly visual, books. There were the two John Pipers, but I also enjoyed exploring a pair of in...

More visual art on the Ramblings today as I feature some books exploring fictional literary houses - great fun! 😄 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/a...

Glisk and Glimmer- Launch This is the launch of Sídhe Press´ second anthology, Glisk and Glimmer- Poems About Light.

Reintroduction: we are Sídhe Press, a small poetry press based in Berlin. Our EIC is Annick Yerem. We have 4 books out and there is a launch online tomorrow at 6 pm BST for our latest anthology, Glisk&Glimmer. Do join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/7110993763... #Poetry #Community #Light #GliskAndGlimmer

Théodore Géricault's epic 1819 painting "The Raft of the Medusa", depicting the wretched survivors of a shipwreck signalling to rescuers

"Twitter users arriving at Bluesky", Théodore Géricault, 1819

When are you guys beginning this?

All the Images Will Disappear, by Tobi Haslett On Annie Ernaux’s spectacular impersonality

Ernaux’s works aren’t coy or glancing; they’ve been sharpened to a point. Though she seems like a writer of details, each book is a vital mission, carried out with thrusting force. “No lyrical reminiscences, no triumphant displays of irony”
- Tobi Haslett

Book club read for September. Man, it’s huge

Yayyy will formally start using this in a couple of days. But soooo excited!