Tag: Books
Hallo, wir sind dracome!
Bei uns dreht sich alles um Bücher. Wir möchten einen Ort schaffen, an dem ihr neue Bücher entdecken, eure gelesenen Bücher festhalten, Rezensionen teilen und euch mit anderen Bookies austauschen könnt.
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2)
The one where I actually define a lexicon
Hector was a Brony.
This bit of Emily Wilson’s Iliad made me laugh.
Moomin x LUSH
I picked up my LUSH order this week, and honestly, I needed this little bolt of joy. Soap in the shape of Finnish children’s book characters is a totally normal thing for an adult woman to get excited about. Of course I sprang for the cardboard Moominhouse. How could you not? Everything was wrapped up […]
Understanding what we mean — Ontology in information architecture
Just as human-centred approaches as a whole have suffered from being flattened to a superficial layer, information architecture has suffered its own flattening. Ontology helps us deepen our practice and improve user experience by getting alignment around what we mean.
Definitive Dupain exhibition opening
After my sneak peek on the weekend, last night was time for the official launch of the State Library’s new Max Dupain exhibition and accompanying book. I knew my friend Bex was a big fan of his fashion photography from the 1930’s and 40’s so I invited her to come along with me on the […]
Road to a book lexicon (Part 1)
The article where I don't define a lexicon, and instead, complain about ISBNs
National Biography Awards
This afternoon I headed to the State Library to see a discussion with the two winners of this year’s National Biography Awards. First we were welcomed by Dr. Sylvia Martin, the chair of the 2026 judging panel. She explained that the judges had reviewed nearly 100 books to arrive at the shortlist of six finalists. […]
Which it is a more rational Garment
“My wool garment? You have noticed it, have you? I had forgot, or I should have pointed it out. Have you ever seen anything so deeply rational?” LOOLLL. The Aubrey-Maturin subreddit discovered The Garment (the one that went viral on Ravelry recently), and they are chuckling over the comparison to Stephen’s “rational wool garment” from […]
A Lot of Words to Say I Bought a Book.
I was watching a vlog the other day and the lass in it was cooking. It was just a video section of the vlog with no voice-over, just music. She put some small potatoes on to boil and then, in a bowl, she added all kinds of spices, chopped chillies and what looked like oil and mixed it all up. The drained spuds made a reappearance and were tipped into this bowl of goodies and were completely bathed in it. The well-dressed tatties were then poured into one of those multi-purpose Ninja things and, I presume, air-fried. They. Looked. Delicious. I just wanted to dive into the bowl of spuds, now crisped up to perfection, and scarf the lot.
WoT: Book 8 to 10
Wheel of Time book 8 to 10 review
My Brilliant Career
I started watching Netflix’s new “adaptation” of My Brilliant Career tonight, and sadly I only lasted like ten minutes. It’s not for me. Once I realised I was just muttering “This is some BULLSHIT!” over and over, I gave up. Look, it’s not my favourite book in the world, and I’m generally okay with modern takes […]
Book Review: A Book Of Days By Patti Smith
What a delightful and insightful book this is! It was given to me as a present and not one that I had come across before. Smith documents a circuitous route through her life, with 366 images (Polaroids and phone shots) and drawings each on an individual page and a small narrative explaining the meaning or context of each one. It feels a bit like a scrapbook of some of the important aspects of or influences on her life, organised over a year with meanings connected by the date rather than a linear chronological order.
Fixing my Weasley Sweater
In 2003 I knitted a Weasley Sweater because the Potter books meant a lot to me. Then 17 years later JK Rowling revealed herself as a litigious, fascist TERF punching down at people who really, really don’t deserve it. She has profoundly disappointed millions of fans who thought better of her, and I’ll never give […]
Collecting the intangible
The State Library of NSW has an interesting event coming up on Sept 1st about how libraries are handling the problem of archiving digital records. I wondered about this myself. In the past famous people would leave “their papers” to historians and archivists, but very few of us have papers anymore. What would I leave […]
The Obligatory Introduction Post
I’m Jill! I’ve lived on Canada’s beautiful east coast all my life—first Nova Scotia and then Prince Edward Island. I’m a 30-something bookworm, history lover, and crafter/fibre artist.
Why spend so much time taking photos?
A personal exploration of what photography means to me
I’ve been reading Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael”
Written in VIM, mea culpa por formato EDIT: I pasted this into a preformatted block, I'm undoing that, it looks awful. I'm about 22% of the way through Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.I've never felt so strongly that I needed to read a piece of literature.It asks questions in earnest, that I've felt I needed answers to...
Event: Book Launch for Modeling Religious Pluralism
Union Theological Seminary is hosting a book launch for Modeling Religious Pluralism. Join us in the Burke's main reading room (3rd floor) to celebrate the publication of Modeling Religious Pluralism: Cultivating Religious Equity in Today's World (Oxford University Press). The evening will feature the volume's editor and two of its contributing authors:Simran Jeet Singh is...
Why spend so much time taking photos?
A personal exploration of what photography means to me
Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May
At this rate, maybe I can finish this project someday after all?
We talk about consuming books, as though reading …
We talk about consuming books, as though reading were a kind of nutritional exercise: pages in, knowledge out. But the best reading has never felt like consumption to me. It feels more like entering into correspondence with another consciousness across space and time. A conversation where one voice has the strange advantage of having thought...
Right into plush #1
This is the first moodboard of the Right Into Plush series. Each board functions as a stylized visual archive, blending high fashion, editorial photography, and multi modal creative direction. The compositions explore a range of thematic influences, including African aesthetics, fashion culture, music, and contemporary design, to build a layered, interdisciplinary visual narrative.
I posted my book news on four platforms to compare engagement
Here's what happened when I posted on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, and Facebook
The Cyber Harvest 0.01
The Cyber Harvest series is something I started as part of my take on personal curriculum and media gardens. It's a project born from my own approach to building a personal learning ecosystem, a mix of self‑directed study, aesthetic cultivation, and media organization.
My Favourite Books of 2025
First posted on Blogger 31/12/25
The Map Is Not the Adventure: Reading Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
I took a different street home the other day. There was no great expedition in it. I was walking back through Southam by a route I know too well, heading toward the familiar turn that gets me home with the least fuss. Then I thought: I could go that way instead. I had no errand...
How I Discover Books - by Julie Damerell
Here's a list from @mellendamerell to help get you started
Which book forms your origin story?
I was reminded of this Bluesky post by @garius about the Cambridge Encyclopedia being his 'origin story'. Which led to others sharing the books that formed their origin stories. For some, it was Men At Arms (sponsored link), book 15 in Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series which introduces the Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness....
42 books in 15 months
My audiobook reading list since April 2025
Update from my partner (who you should totally follow)
Reblog via joelle I’m just going to type out a quick update here for the sheer hell of it. There has been a lot going on in my personal and professional life at the moment, and I am deep in the process of Getting My Shit Together. Because of this, it is difficult to have...
Book Review: To Have or to Be?
500 Words and the Fediverse
Book Review: The Time Regulation Institute
I Bought a Kurt Vonnegut Collection Because It Reminds Me of My Dead Best Friend
My best friend passed away four years ago this summer. I'd known him since fifth grade. Before he passed we were working on a podcast and a possible book. I still can't watch any videos of him.
Why I have trouble culling my book library
From the archives of Will Write For Chocolate
On lending books: Do YOU still do it?
From the archives of Will Write For Chocolate
About the World- The Maha
Thoughts about canons
When the various medias "split the party" and lead to argument.
About the World- Government
"1001 Books to Read Before You Die" That Have Survived 4 Rounds of Culling
Source: http://bucketlistbookreviews.com/the-lists/differences-between-the-original-and-current-1001-lists/
The Future Doesn’t Have to Suck
The thing that drew me to M. Arusha Wehm’s novel The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human was the promise on the dust jacket that the book was “a thoughtful, optimistic sci-fi novel set in a near-future Aotearoa New Zealand where an investigator navigates a newly post-capitalist world in their search for...
About the Author
Bicentennial Baby Blues
I was born in 1976, so I obviously don’t recall America’s big bicentennial birthday bash. But the celebration of America’s 200th birthday was a big enough cultural event that artifacts from the bicentennial celebration were kicking around throughout my youth. I’d occasionally encounter the special 200th birthday quarters, which featured a minuteman playing a drum...
The Ambiguity of "Growth"
Anti-growth rhetoric sounds appealing, but it privileges the present over the future.