🔴 📰 🎥 Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”
“UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman.”
🔴 📰 🎥 Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”
“UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman.”
I read a review of Alex Pheby's Malarkoi that made it sound right up my street, so I read Mordew, (first in the series) and wow. Complex, dark, baroquely inventive, gorgeous prose—generally everything I love about Mervyn Peake but written with a real sense of mission.
OK, readers! #PuckAndPrejudice where a pro hockey player travels back to 1812 and does a marriage convenience with Lizzy Wooddash so she can become a window and a lady of leisure when he “dies" (aka sent back to his timeline). Sparks, of course, ensue. HEA obviously. Comes out Nov 11! I have an eARC and I'll be reading this soon with a review forthcoming.
Maryann reviews "Zero Tolerance" by Jackie Keswick, Zero Rising book 3:
"Keswick immerses the reader in another fascinating tale... I have only high praise for Zero Tolerance and the rest of the “Zero Rising” series. Keswick is multi-talented – this series is outstanding, worth reading over and over."
@setiinstitute: "We are living in a golden age in astrobiology, the beginning of a fantastic odyssey in which much remains to be written, but where our first steps bring the promise of prodigious discoveries. And these first steps have already transformed our species in one generation in a way that we cannot foresee just yet."
Eugenia strives for sophistication in the rough world of early 20th-century Argentina. Carolina Bruck explores rural living, racism and loyalty in China, translated by Ellen Jones.
And on the @fictionable#podcast we disrupt concepts of civilisation and barbarity.
Just realized that right now I am actively reading:
-The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
-A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
-Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
-The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty
-Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
-Mother Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simone
That’s too much, even for me. What should I focus on finishing first?
Saw #ItEndsWithUs today in theatres! I read the book and LOVED it, but felt disappointed with the movie. 🙁 I know there's only so much they can fit within a couple hours but it felt rushed and lacked a lot of the emotional depth between Lily and Atlas that was present in the book. Still a great movie though. I think they did a great job touching on the topic of domestic abuse without making it really graphic. Good movie, but the book was better. 😉
22 Book Club Questions for Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
22 thought-provoking questions to delve into the complexities of "Little Fires Everywhere," and start exploring themes of family dynamics, privilege, and identity. #books#bookclub@bookstodon#bookstodon
#IndieInkAwards reviews for this year are coming in! I'll cross-post them here in replies to myself as they come in. Feel free to follow the hashtag to make sure you see them all! (These will be on other social media as well.)
First up, Tiny Elf Arcanist reviews A Necromancer Called Gam Gam and calls it "a moving exploration of grief and found family wrapped in beautiful prose"
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WaywardSky reviews How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, saying "These characters… They’re so good." and "It's been a few months since I read this, and I can still bring to mind these two with striking clarity-and not just their faces, but their hearts, emotions, desires. They've engraved themselves on me a bit."
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The Shaggy Shepherd reviews Inked, saying "Magic ink, magical creatures, and an obvious sense of humor in the description pulled me right in" & "I got really frustrated with the MC here and there, but overall it was a good story that was enjoyable and I’ll be continuing with the series." She also called out Biscuit as a great character.