mouse wants to read Food Provisions for Ancient Rome by Paul James
Food Provisions for Ancient Rome by Paul James
This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its …
sure yeah okay
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mouse started reading Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. …
mouse finished reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is …
mouse started reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is …
mouse finished reading Frozen Desserts by Francisco Migoya
Frozen Desserts by Francisco Migoya
It is essential for any serious pastry chef to have a comprehensive knowledge of frozen dessert production, and this book …
mouse started reading White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
mouse finished reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
But Catherine [of Siena] herself, in letter after letter, says we do not marry Christ with gold or silver but with the ring of Christ’s foreskin, given in the Circumcision and accompanied by pain and the shedding of blood.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 174 - 175)
mouse finished 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 …
mouse finished reading Norwood by Charles Portis
Out of the American Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, The Grand Ole Opry, …
Camping trip read
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 …
@samfirke yeah her folding system really was a moment of cultural progress imo
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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)
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes …
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)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
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