@samfirke yeah her folding system really was a moment of cultural progress imo
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mouse started reading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy …
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@julien clearing toxins?
mouse finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, #1)
I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.
There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
After her death Agnes's body exuded sweet oil from hands and feet, and the oil effected many cures.
The theme of exuding appears in several Italian vitae, as it does in those from the Low Countries and Germany. Flemish women were ore apt to exude milk, Italian and German women oil or manna; but in vitae from all regions the theme is clear.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 145)
New regional stereotypes just dropped
mouse finished reading The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Menger-Anderson debuts with an eloquent story of time travel and family secrets. It begins with a 21-year-old woman named Hase, …
mouse started reading The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Menger-Anderson debuts with an eloquent story of time travel and family secrets. It begins with a 21-year-old woman named Hase, …
mouse finished reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Solaris by Stanisław Lem
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself …
mouse finished reading On Being Different by Merle Miller (Penguin classics)

On Being Different by Merle Miller (Penguin classics)
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the …
mouse started reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Solaris by Stanisław Lem
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself …
mouse finished reading How to be both by Ali Smith (Clipper -- LP3487)

How to be both by Ali Smith (Clipper -- LP3487)
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
mouse wants to read The European Book in the Twelfth Century by Erik Kwakkel

The European Book in the Twelfth Century by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson
The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe …
mouse started reading How to be both by Ali Smith (Clipper -- LP3487)

How to be both by Ali Smith (Clipper -- LP3487)
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
Faced with such ambiguous advice, many pious people in the later Middle Ages developed, along with a frenzied hunger for the host, an intense fear of receiving it. Margaret of Cortona, for example, pled frantically with her confessor for frequent communion but, when given the privilege by Christ, abstained out of terror at her unworthiness.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 58)