Over at my LibraryThing reviews account I just posted my review of Shaun Tan’s beautiful story-in-pictures The Arrival. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can see some images on the artist’s website (I’ve linked a few from the review also).
After posting the review I started wandering through other people’s reviews (the perils and joys [...]
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Ok, that reads like a headline from The Onion… but I just came upon a passage in The Scar that seems to suggest that Miéville’s world is flat.
Here it is, from page 166 of the Del Rey mass market paperback edition:
The seasons were only points of view—matters of perspective. [...]
Hot on the heels of the Riddley Walker annotations project I found a couple of months ago, the extraordinary Zarf11. Author of some damn fine interactive fiction, a bunch of apps and libraries, many reviews and a wonderfully strange column, among many, many other things. [↪] has produced a monumental cross-indexed reference for John M. [...]
People who write in library books deserve to be stabbed with their pencils. On the other hand, while it makes reading the original much harder, a certain kind of annotation is guaranteed to add comic relief to the driest of academic prose.
And indeed, Dutch translations of tricky idiomatic phrases such as “a preliminary stab at” [...]
Just back from ESSLLI, about which more coming soon… Catching up on two weeks of news I find that LibraryThing has added a bunch of Dutch cataloguing sources.
De NRC Handelsblad heeft een stukje daarover, of je kunt direct naar LibraryThing.nl. Wees voorzichtig, het is wel verslavend…
Riddley Walker is a good contender for my all-time favourite novel. It’s a post-apocalyptic story told in the first person, with altered spelling and reinterpreted expressions and the rhythms of oral history to match. The language is at first intimidating, and it’s a testament to Russell Hoban’s writing that you get caught up in the [...]
LibraryThing has split the ‘watchlist’ option into two: ‘interesting libraries’ and ‘friends’. So if anyone I actually know is using it, drop me a friend request. As you might have guessed, my LT name is tikitu.
(I don’t, as a general rule, do social networking. But I’m genuinely interested in the books people I know are [...]
Night Shade Books is having a half-price sale to clear room for incoming stock. There’s a four-book minimum order and I’m broke (the last couple of posts should make clear why), but if anyone wants to go part shares and pony up the cash I’ve got my eye on a couple of titles. Stefan, I’m [...]
There’s one other recent acquisition that’s so cool it gets its own separate post.
Last Friday at the Boekenmarkt Spui I bought a beautiful photo-reproduction of (large parts of) the Book of Kells. I’ve put a few amateurish photographs below the fold (they’re fairly large images), and the wikipedia page has lots of more professional ones. [...]
It’s been a long while since I gloated, and I’ve accumulated a lot to gloat about. In fact, it’s been so long that I’ve read a fair few of ‘em, so some of the following will be capsule reviews as well as the usual stories of how I wandered on a whim into a bookstore [...]