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katnisshawkeye · 11 months

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#SalTo2023 Attraverso lo specchio

Ho voluto interpretare il tema della XXXV edizione del Salone Internazionale del Libro a modo mio, rappresentando una Alice che non si sa bene se sia nel suo giardino o in uno di quelli incantati del Paese delle Meraviglie, che si riflette a sua volta nella medesima posizione tenendo lo stesso specchio nella sua cameretta, che a sua volta riflette la caduta nel Paese delle Meraviglie tramite la tana di Coniglio.

La XXXV edizione del Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, infatti, si apre oggi, 18 maggio 2023, e sarà accessibile ai visitatori con un ricco programma di ospiti ed eventi fino al 22 maggio 2023.

Il tema di questo Salone è “Attraverso lo specchio”, un inno all’immaginazione e un tributo all’autore britannico Lewis Carroll, e l’illustrazione ufficiale è stata realizzata da Elisa Talentino.

Buone esplorazioni di Mondi, Lettorə!

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laayiv · 2 years

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People always say that old books are hard to read because they go slow, but that's not true. I've been trying to read the Divine Comedy for ages now, but it moves so fast, I can't keep track. I haven't gotten past canto 5 properly, just because if I stop paying attention for literally just a few lines, I'm already completely lost. In normal books, you can accidentally skip half a paragraph at a time and still understand everything. You shouldn't, but you can.

#literature #dante's inferno #dante's divine comedy #divine comedy #classical literature #old books #books #classical poetry #you're all wrong #this opinion is not so much conhtroversial as something nobody has thought about before #books are great

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zipadeea · 2 months

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I don't mind that Walker Scobell doesn't look like book!Percy because 1) he's absolutely got the spirit. Walker basically is Percy, you can see and feel that in every one of his scenes, and

2) If book!Percabeth had a baby, he would look exactly like Walker Scobell, and I think that's hilariously perfect

#pjo #percy jackson #disney #annabeth chase #percabeth #walker scobell #he's just a great percy #and he also happens to look just like the combination of book percy and annabeth and it's great #pjo tv show #pjo ser

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gomi-chan · 3 months

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Something I love about reading books

When you aren't sure what someone meant when they said something you get a description of how they say it or what they look like or are doing while saying it

It's so much easier to understand than having a conversation or watching actors cuz it's literally written out for you how you are supposed to interpret the statement or action

#why are people so weird???#just make sense!!#just be readable people!!!#books are great #manga is great

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blueboyluca · 10 months

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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

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carmencassidy · 9 months

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I'm just sitting here surrounded by books waiting for people to ask for recommendations at any moment

#i will throw books at you #books are great #reading is great #rp

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egophiliac · 2 months

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What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?

I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.

I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay

also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 4 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 chapter 4 spoilers #stage in playful land #i hope this is legible whoops #anon i am sorry but you made the fatal mistake of asking me to talk about diasomnia #insert 'i just think they're neat' jpg #i do like the other characters a lot but they are definitely my favorites #they just hit a lot of my favorite things in characters i guess!#yes even you sebek even though you keep shrieking NINGEN at me #(it's okay he gets Character Development™ later)#and their dynamic! it's great! these guys frikking love each other SO much and they WILL have terrible terrible angst about it #ohoho delicious #give me all your emotional hangups baybeeeee #also somewhere in there i went from 'i like them all equally (but lilia is the most fun to draw)'#to 'lilia is absolutely my favorite (and still the most fun to draw) (EVEN MORE fun now thank you swishy ponytail!)'#(it was probably when his candy coating got a little scratched and whoops all the tragedy fell out)#(where's that 'get loved loser' post because i need to staple it to lilia's forehead)#i am extremely bad at putting things into words so please don't ask me to explain it any further #just know that the diafam is everything to me and if we don't get more episode 7 soon i'm going to crumble into dust and blow away #we'll be getting the crowleytimes on monday and maybe there will be. idk. some foreshadowing or something in his groovy #probably not but LOOK i'm desperate

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meeshnut · 11 months

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#books i have read #monthly reading #reading roundup #books are great #books #booksbooksbooks #book wrap up #book reading #reading #books i've read #read

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katnisshawkeye · 1 year

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Le Dame di Grace Adieu e altre storie

Scheda informativa

Titolo originale: The Ladies of Grace Adieu Autore: Susanna Clarke Editore: Fazi Editore Prima edizione: ottobre 2022 Pagine: 270 Prezzo: € 10,00

Trama

Molti mortali hanno vagato per le campagne inglesi senza farne più ritorno. Questo perché tra i boschi silenziosi e le verdi colline si celano dei confini invisibili, al di là dei quali il mondo reale si ripiega su dimensioni assai più magiche e ricche di insidie. Lo sanno bene i protagonisti di queste storie, che si ritrovano a interagire con creature impertinenti e maliziose che giocano con la superficie delle cose, scompigliando il buon senso e l’ordine della realtà. Da una vita di campagna solo apparentemente tranquilla fino ai castelli dove è stata scritta la storia dell’Inghilterra, in questi racconti maghi e fate si intromettono nelle esistenze assolutamente comuni di vicari di campagna e fidanzate gelose, ma anche nei destini di figure storiche come Maria di Scozia e il duca di Wellington.

Recensione

Se Jonathan Strange & il signor Norrell è uno dei libri di storia che gli studenti e le studentesse della Scuola di Magia e Stregoneria di Hogwarts studiano in classe, Le Dame di Grace Adieu e altre storie può essere considerato al pari de Le Fiabe di Beda il Bardo, ovvero un libro di favole, pur con verità storiche, che maghi e streghe conoscono fin da bambini. Con Le Dame di Grace Adieu e altre storie, Susanna Clarke è in grado di unire l’ironia vittoriana ai temi classici del folklore britannico, tessendo le fila di un mondo fantastico dove storia e magia si intrecciano riportando il lettore alle vecchie conoscenze provenienti da Jonathan Strange & il signor Norrell.

Valutazione

★★★★★ 5/5

Della stessa autrice

Piranesi, Fazi Editore, 2021 Jonathan Strange & il signor Norrell, Fazi Editore, 2021

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torpublishinggroup · 5 months

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TOR WRAPPED 2023

Books for every Spotify Wrapped listener class!

VAMPIRE

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Mordew by Alex Pheby

HYPNOTIST

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

ALCHEMIST

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

SHAPESHIFTER

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

FANATIC

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

TIME TRAVELER

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

MASTERMIND

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Exadelic by Jon Evans

COLLECTOR

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

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makingqueerhistory · 10 months

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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

#queer books #queer history #lgbt history #honestly #libraries are a massive resource in terms of preserving and uplifting marginalized narratives #and as a community #that has been so very excluded from both fictional and nonfictional narratives #this is a great way to reclaim and care for the stories that have been surpressed for so long

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puppetmaster13u · 23 days

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Prompt 271

“Grandmother is visiting,” Damian suddenly said with no warning and with his usual not-quite demanding tone.

“Who?” Tim wasn’t the only one to startle, seeing as Bruce had practically froze, a downturn to his lips in a silent show of confusion.

Damian scowled. “Are you deaf Drake? Grandmother is coming to Gotham to, quote, make sure I am being properly cared for.” None of them had known that Ras was with anyone actually. At least Tim was pretty sure that would have been in the files.

“Oh?” Dick didn’t quite crouch to Damian’s height but it was a near thing. “She-” “He,” Damian corrected, interrupting him. They all exchanged a glance before Dick continued.

“Is he coming to the Manor or…”

Damian scoffed again, a tiny bit of a flush against his face. “No, Grandmother will most likely be staying with Akhi-”

Now wait one moment-

“YOU HAVE ANOTHER BROTHER?!”