Ada Wildflower wants to read Art of Libromancy by Josh Cook
Bookstores are one of my favourite places in the world.
This book examines the social and political role of indie booksellers. Reading is revolutionary, and our access to books matter.
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"The Library at Night - a series of essays on what might call the Platonic …
For these cultures of the Book, knowledge lies not in the accumulation of texts or information, nor in the object of the book itself, but in the experience rescued from the page and transformed again into experience, in the words reflected both in the outside world and in the reader's own being.
— The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel (Page 91)
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, …
"The Library at Night - a series of essays on what might call the Platonic …
If a library is a mirror of the universe, then a catalogue is a mirror of that mirror.
— The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel (Page 52)
Can you imagine how clumsy trying to impose order on a large collection of books is?
Earlier in the chapter Manguel points out that the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system was a big fan of 'Anglo-Saxonism.'
This meant that although the system was meant to organize a universe of books, it enshrined his narrow world views.
Ada Wildflower wants to read Translation State by Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will …
I'm always excited for translator protagonists 😊
Leckie writes sci-fi where you're not just exploring new planets with projected human struggles, you're exploring different ways of being.
Ada Wildflower started reading Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin
If you'd like to follow along and read with me,
I'm writing one blog post for each of these poems over on my blog @ paperbalm.com
Ada Wildflower started reading The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
"The Library at Night - a series of essays on what might call the Platonic idea of a library - …