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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My user avatar is a rainbow lorikeet feeding on orange gum blossoms — photographed above a suburban nature strip, on Boon Wurrung Country.
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.
Climate change, polarised politics, social isolation and growing inequality — it can be hard to …
Having written the title of this book down by hand several times, recently, I can report that something in the sound of the strokes only reinforces, with every repetition, the mental resonation of this phrasing as Glimpses of #uowipoa.
Haben Menschen, ähnlich wie manche Tiere, eine Art siebten Sinn für Gefahr? Ist es möglich, …
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BookWyrm the software
Oh no, #BookWyrm currently[1] prevents a user from shelving a work as "Read" in more than one edition.
It also obstructs the making of progress updates relating to that work once you've "finished reading" any edition of the book. (Which is a less significant but likely connected barrier I'd run into already with a completely different book, as I continued to work through one version after finishing another version).
In attempting to find some sort of cumbersome workaround, I've accidentally wound up with this Wohlleben work counted on my 2023 books page once as the German text but twice for the English... (instead of once for each).[2]
Yet the German copy still will not budge from my "Currently Reading" shelf. Can't even seem to relegate it to "Stopped Reading" as a compromise.
An alternative might be to catalogue each edition (that anyone wants to distinguish from another they ever read) as a separate work... but doing so would clutter up the author pages, search results, and databases. Badly.
If any kind souls with GitHub access could please file an Issue about this problem, that would be much appreciated!
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…?
Care of Australian Wildlife is the definitive guide for all Australians wishing to protect and …
decisive in a crisis, important in the ordinary
5 stars
Exemplary, clear and thorough guidance on first aid, rehabilitation, and resolving awkward encounters, along with well-rounded advice on planning garden spaces, managing habitat, and incorporating furnishings (such as nest boxes, birdbaths and possum thoroughfares) to support wildlife.
Indigenous Plants of the Sandbelt is a gardening book which will increase your understanding of …
a grounded grounding
5 stars
Guess what sits top of the list Gardening in Naarm’s Sandbelt, where I wrote what seems review enough I figured I’d expand slightly on it with an actual one.
Grounded in the very geology of the place, this is a slim but rich introduction to a representative selection of local plant species, and assisting them in forming communities.
It is useful as! The authors strike a fine balance, which the clear presentation makes look so easy: being welcoming to beginners, reaching deep for the hardcore, and always keeping things convenient. It’s a surprise not to have met more books of this formula, as such guides could obviously be immensely beneficial in all kinds of places.
The text isn’t perfect. My biggest gripes are wordings that would confine Aboriginal practices to the past, and quite so readily condoning resort to rank pesticide.
I might have liked slightly more attention on …
Guess what sits top of the list Gardening in Naarm’s Sandbelt, where I wrote what seems review enough I figured I’d expand slightly on it with an actual one.
Grounded in the very geology of the place, this is a slim but rich introduction to a representative selection of local plant species, and assisting them in forming communities.
It is useful as! The authors strike a fine balance, which the clear presentation makes look so easy: being welcoming to beginners, reaching deep for the hardcore, and always keeping things convenient. It’s a surprise not to have met more books of this formula, as such guides could obviously be immensely beneficial in all kinds of places.
The text isn’t perfect. My biggest gripes are wordings that would confine Aboriginal practices to the past, and quite so readily condoning resort to rank pesticide.
I might have liked slightly more attention on incorporating indigenous plants in the kitchen garden, but that may make for a different book. The curation as is is not in need of upsetting. It is well suited to a good range of contexts.
Still an invaluable resource two decades on — indeed, only growing in urgency every month — this title is commonly held by public library services around the region, although remains worryingly out of print and pixel.
A revised edition would be so welcome! Meanwhile, I’d encourage anyone with so much as an egg carton in the area to reserve, show to friends, and cherish those remaining copies.
Allysse and Jonathan discuss how being queer/LGBTQIA+ might affect a person’s outdoor experiences, connections between …
Alrighty, BookWyrms — you’ve got a fair few zines now, on top of audiobooks. How about a lovely audiozine?
This one’s probably up a lot of our alleys, actually! Certainly I feel like wending through the back issues afresh, once I run out of current audiobook, in a couple of hours’ listening time.
Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, …
en-Zxxx-AU, baby!
Dunno about everybody else perusing #BookWyrm book databases, but I find the shorthand much less irritating than words fixed firmly out of translation such that they clash with all but one language interface. Of course, not all language variants star in the language-subtag-registry, in which case I say name ’em in their own words! (Or close to as practicable). Getting to pointedly specify en-Latn, with nobody around yet to be potentially bothered by my acting as though particular scripts shouldn’t go without saying, has been one of the little joys of nesting into We Loved Your Book So Much We Ate It, actually. If I ever get to the braille library (gosh if it’s even still open to the public after all these years), I’ll be so excited to label editions on here nice and clearly.
Anyhoo, may I remember to reborrow audiobook loans part‐heard …
en-Zxxx-AU, baby!
Dunno about everybody else perusing #BookWyrm book databases, but I find the shorthand much less irritating than words fixed firmly out of translation such that they clash with all but one language interface. Of course, not all language variants star in the language-subtag-registry, in which case I say name ’em in their own words! (Or close to as practicable). Getting to pointedly specify en-Latn, with nobody around yet to be potentially bothered by my acting as though particular scripts shouldn’t go without saying, has been one of the little joys of nesting into We Loved Your Book So Much We Ate It, actually. If I ever get to the braille library (gosh if it’s even still open to the public after all these years), I’ll be so excited to label editions on here nice and clearly.
Anyhoo, may I remember to reborrow audiobook loans part‐heard last year. Got the furthest with Our Sunburnt Country, leaving few enough hours I should be able to manage in one or two or three or four goes later this month, maybe?
