mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia
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For locals and visitors alike, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria …
Jamie is the average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, generational trauma, …
This time of year, fall creeps up on you and whacks you upside the head. One minute it’s hazy and bright and your collarbone itches with the sweat trapped under your shirt, the next—bam! The sky darkens early, cold mist fills the air, and everything feels weighed down with regret, or just damp.
Kick back, relax, and get On Island Time. This quirky illustrated travel guide showcases the hidden delights, natural wonders, and …
La ville de San Francisco… couvre un territoire relativement petit : environ 100 km² — la même superficie que Paris intra muros.
— Sociologie de San Francisco by Sonia Lehman-Frisch (Page 7)
san francisco has about the same land area as paris (city proper, excluding extended 'area'). huh.
A small, inexpensive book, organized by situational themes, of common Dutch phrases relative to their representation in French.
Two things made this stand out: Some common phrases, like "exit" or "where is?", appear in multiple sections so that you don't have to flip around guessing where to find the part that you should "already know." And the pronunciation guides use the International Phonetic Alphabet; this is important to me as Dutch uses phonemes from (at least) English, French, and German. Most guides try to approximate the pronunciation in the reader's tongue, with varying (but generally low) levels of success. IPA removes that ambiguity, at the cost of needing to understand IPA itself.
When I walk into Three Lives in New York, or other stores in San Francisco like Green Arcade or Green Apple, or on the rare chance I get to go to Seminary Co-op in Chicago, my eye gravitates to two things: one, the thing that I'm not familiar with and, two, something I may be very familiar with but now see in a new context. It's all about developing a conversation between the books.
— Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki (Page 1 - 2)
In which the City Lights bookseller name-checks my beloved Green Arcade, which survived lockdown only to close soon after.
The world is on fire. So tell your story.
Things are scary right now. We’re …
Seven words sum up a really good landing: "Nothing will ever be the same again."
— Never Say You Can't Survive by Charlie Jane Anders (40%)
The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In …
Less a view of falling cats through a science lens, this is more of a survey science course seen through cat eyes. Most of the sciences are touched on: Newtonian physics, darkroom chemistry, anatomy and physiology, quantum mechanics.
There's a tremendous amount of history; my eyes glazed over from all the Important Old White Guys. It's worth flipping through if you like science, particularly if you like cats. It's a less compelling read if you just wanted to understand the cat trick.
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The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to …
i like this book, it's cozy without being too slow. but there's a thing that keeps happening whose cause seems really clear. if the main characters figure it out 50 pages ago, there's no story. but how did they not figure it out? or will it be the mother of all red herrings?
If you’re a software engineer, developer, or sys admin who needs to get up to …
I didn't learn enough from the book to do the things listed on the tin, but there was enough high-level information that I could understand concepts and do productive searches for what I needed.
— Hot dang. This was in Harley Quinn. That's insane. — Welcome to California. 90% of LA is just leftover movie trash.
— Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio, Paulina Ganucheau (Page 27)
in which l.a. thrifting is asserted as second to none
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic--with very unexpected results--in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, …
