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wrul (they, iel, etc)

wrul@book.snailhuddle.org

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Nairm & Birrarungga, Kulin biik
https://snailhuddle.org/~wrul/
Wyrming mainly in Englishes and Frenches — on books mostly written in those, in Germans, and in Japaneses. Unreliable translator.

Most of this account is designated “followers‐only”, for the cosiness.

  • If you’d like a better sense of subjects and style before deciding whether to dip in, consider a bounce around the informal lit‐talk of BREYDON’s been reading. As well as there, book‐readin of (the long) 2022 appears on my pre‐huddle profile, @wrul@bookwyrm.social.
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Emily Wilson, Homer: The Odyssey (2017, W. W. Norton & Company)
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

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This bug will be gone next time we update the #BookWyrm software. In the meantime, “Quote”‐posts will work if given a complete page range, such as On page 10 to 10.

References: - BookWyrm pull request # 3353: 'Fix creation of quotations with no end position'. 15 April 2024. - BookWyrm issue # 3352: 'citation and reading position'. 08 April 2024. - BookWyrm issue # 3364: 'Entering a quote with only a "On page" page number fails without an error'. 28 April 2024.

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quoted Persons by Gavin Van Horn (Kinship: Belonging In A World Of Relations, #4)

Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer: Persons (Paperback, 2021) 4 stars

Volume 4 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of interpersonal relations: Which experiences …

Time is there because things happen, because atoms meet, because stones breathe one another. Matter is social. Time arises because this cosmos cannot sit still. It needs to share and connect.

— Persons by , , (Kinship: Belonging In A World Of Relations, #4)

From the wonderful essay on making kin with lichen, Skincentric Ecology by Andreas Weber.

finished reading The boy who cried fabulous by Lesléa Newman

Lesléa Newman, Peter Ferguson: The boy who cried fabulous (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2007, Tricycle Press) No rating

Fabulously illustrated, this cheerful tale about a boy who marches to the beat of a …

Rushed through this at the newsdesk between live segments, for QUILTBAG Story Time with Dean Arcuri (who’s an absolute stalwart of drag storytimes, as Frock Hudson). The boy who cried fabulous is a layered, clever piccie book, deserving of more time.

There’s a podcast of our little chat about it, and a complete list of the books that were featured in QUILTBAG Story Time on JOY Breakfast (indexed to the BookWyrm database‐network, so you can find the books and their episodes easily)!

#​QUILTBAGStoryTime

quoted A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2022, Tordotcom) 4 stars

The alien tucked their tail under themselves and rolled back so that they lay rocking on the curve of their own body [..].

— A Half-Built Garden by  (Page 8)

What a rare treasure it has been to see a singular themselvesing make print. So, here is a trove for trumpeting about them in: It’s the singular they themselves!

Feel free to flaunt sightings of reflexive pronouns that sing for you in this open list any time.

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Aha, obviously I wasn't paying the closest attention to #BookWyrm development discussions mid last year, because much of the underlying cause of these problems is already to be resolved in a big refactor of the underlying reading -status and -activity logic[1].

There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]

In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's …

commented on Das geheime Band zwischen Mensch und Natur by Peter Wohlleben

Peter Wohlleben: Das geheime Band zwischen Mensch und Natur (Hardcover, de language, 2019, Ludwig Verlag) 1 star

Haben Menschen, ähnlich wie manche Tiere, eine Art siebten Sinn für Gefahr? Ist es möglich, …

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commented on Te Kākano by John C. Moorfield (Te Whanake, #1)

John C. Moorfield, Rachael Ka‘ai-Mahuta: Te Kākano (Paperback, mi-Latn-NZ language, 2023, Edify) No rating

This textbook concentrates on the language needed for everyday situations, such as meeting people, having …

Is it too much to hope that the rejuvenation of Māori language course Te Whanake in actual print(!) may portend a new physical edition of decently deep yet dabbler-friendly dictionary Te Aka, with which these textbooks shared an editor and lexicon…?

quoted Grammaire rebelle by Collectif Queerasse

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Collectif Queerasse: Grammaire rebelle (EBook, fr-Latn-CA language, 2018)

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Un cahier de Français tendre, pour te tenir par la main dans ce patriarcat cis-hétéro-suprémaciste-blanc-capitaliste, …

Pssst! There’s no shame in looking at the answers (p. 37) ! If you’re blaming yourself, remember that you are not the problem, it’s French <3

— Grammaire rebelle by  (Page 35)

I’m giving the P.D.F. a skim, and have laughed heartily, as well as been deeply moved.

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quoted Gaucher.ère contrarié.e by V.S. Goela

V.S. Goela: Gaucher.ère contrarié.e (Paperback, fr-Latn-CA language, Éditions L'Interlignex) No rating

Les trajectoires paradoxales des treize personnages s'entrelacent comme les fils d'une tapisserie humaine bigarrée, toutes …

Je peux me cacher derrière les langues « étrangères ». Mais toutes les langues sont des langues étrangères au Canada, n'est-ce pas ? Sauf le cri, l'inuktitut, l'ojibwé, anishnabe, haida gwai, mic mac, cri des plaines, dakota, blackfoot, montagnais, dene, atikamek, bella coola, oneida, tlicho, le mitchif… Il faudrait que je demande à mon sensei.

— Gaucher.ère contrarié.e by 

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quoted Gaucher.ère contrarié.e by V.S. Goela

V.S. Goela: Gaucher.ère contrarié.e (Paperback, fr-Latn-CA language, Éditions L'Interlignex) No rating

Les trajectoires paradoxales des treize personnages s'entrelacent comme les fils d'une tapisserie humaine bigarrée, toutes …

Je ne savais pas que le français est toujours une langue exotique, au Canada anglais. Si on parle français, les gens sont impressionnés. Et ils croient qu’on a appris la langue en France. Ah, oui. Le vin français, l'accent français, la bouffe française, «ils sont tellement cultivés», les Français. Si eux, ces gens, parlent français, c'est parce qu'ils ont voyagé en France, bien entendu. J’existe dans un désert linguistique, en 2014 il n’existe plus de librairie francophone à Toronto. Toronto est-elle une ville désignée bilingue ? Alors, ça va ? Le statu quo ? Je peux acheter les livres en français en ligne, sans parler à un vendeur. C'est génial, parce que je n'aime pas le monde. Ou je voyage à Ottawa, ou dans une grande ville québécoise pour feuilleter, toucher les livres directement. Un objet tangible ne vaut rien ces jours-ci. Les gens aiment leurs livres numériques. Et c'est peut-être mieux. Personne n'a touché la version électronique, alors, il n'y a pas de germes.

— Gaucher.ère contrarié.e by