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mouse

mouse@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 years, 6 months ago

it's me, I'm the creator and admin of BookWyrm. buy me a book!

try me at @tripofmice@friend.camp for non-reading content and @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt for technical stuff

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34% complete! mouse has read 18 of 52 books.

George Leland Hunter: The Practical Book of Tapestries (Hardcover, 1925, J.B. Lippincott company) No rating

This is a practical book. It sticks to the facts. It is based, not on other books, but on tapestries I have seen and know. It wastes little space on unimportant tapestries, or on tapestries that have ceased to exist.

I dedicate the book "to France, the mother of tapestries" in recognition of the fact that Perfected Tapestries are a French art based on French literature and painting, and developed at Arras and Paris in the fourteenth century. All great Gothic tapestries are French Gothic, whether woven in Northern France or in the French Netherlands.

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well this guy does not mince words

started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Micaiah Johnson: Those Beyond the Wall (Hardcover, 2024, Del Rey) 4 stars

In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …

I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.