Huh, now I want to read it.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
She's fantastic and I will go back to it, it just felt a bit on the nose as it were.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I think I just have a thing for books set in religious, cloistered communities.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
Have you read Frost in May by Antonia White? That's a stunning little book.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
Nope! Another added to the Abe list.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
The corner that held them is great. Wonderful bunch of women to spend a half century with. Highly recommended.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
At the risk of stating the obvious, itâs quite similar to matrix by Lauren groff, which Iâm half way through right now, but the corner that held themâs focus is more prosaic/domestic, eg how will they fix the roof, etc.
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 December 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
ooh, and that's what i like bestâ the stuff about hay and rooftops and long hard winters
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 December 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
This tweet is how it ended up on my reading list
I'm reading the book, âThe Corner that Held Them,â which is about a bunch of nuns at an abby over decades during the plague in the 14th century, and it's just a lot of little episodes, so I've started to treat it like Twitter and think âtime to check in on my nuns.â— Paul Ford (@ftrain) April 19, 2020
― đ đđ˘đ¨ (caek), Thursday, 23 December 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Oh I've got to read that!
― Jaq, Thursday, 23 December 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
Unintepretability/opacity are not givens in machine learning but theyâre pretty common problems that take work to overcome and may be in practice insoluble problems.Pretty much every interesting model describes data in a space with more than three dimensions, ie is âhyperdimensionalâ.Whether those observations of facts support the (metaphorical?) deployment of those terms in criticism I donât know. Hyperdimensionality is extremely mundane in the technical sense, so Iâm very skeptical about that being a load bearing term in critical theoretical discussions.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 23 December 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
The one time I abandon a book and now I can *feel* those nuns lining up to be all like 'so you don't care about our roof eh?'.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 December 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
Got another 2 added to the about to read list since my Xmas present arrived from my brother.THe iNconvenient Indian by Thomas King& Surviving Genocide by Jeffrey ostler. Both books on the treatment of Native Americans over the 19th & 20th centuries probably a littel more on each end too.
Have had tehm gboth pretty heavily recommended so, great to get them.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
I'm thinking of a spectrum from "nuns" to "sexy nuns" with The Corner That Held Them on one end, Benedetta on the other, and Lauren Groff's Matrix right in the center.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 December 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
If I receive some of the books I'm expecting to receive for the holidays, then I'll be quite busy for a while.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
A new comet has been spotted in the skies over ILB, thanks to dow:
Bonfires In The Sky: What Are You Reading, Winter 2021-22?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 23 December 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
thatâs interesting table - i found that âtoxiconâŚâ transcended its subject matter. i kind of went into it with some trepidation because of the circumstances of its writing, but i found a lot more than that in it. i liked its intensity and knottiness. weirdly iâm less keen on joyelle mcsweeneyâs critical work, i like the necropastoral book but i didnât get much out of her old blog, the gurlesque etc
― dogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
Lolly Willowes (O052) - Sylvia Townsend WarnerPattern Recognition - William Gibson (R)The Card - Arnold BennettShift - Hugh HoweyThe Owl Service - Alan GarnerDark Entries - Robert Aickman (+)Seeds Of Time - John WyndhamSlade House - David Mitchell (+)The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor HugoThe Man Who Was Thursday - G K ChestertonAutumn - Ali SmithBleak House - Charles Dickens (R)Ramble Book - Adam BuxtonXX - Ryan HughesThe Old Man And The Sea - Earnest Hemingway (+)The Sea, The Sea - Iris MurdochThe Sea Wolf - Jack LondonInverted World - Christopher PriestThe Story Of Your Life and Others - Ted ChiangOne Thousand Ships - Natalie HaynesAmber Fury - Natalie HaynesAlcestis - EuripidesAgamemnon - AeschylusDeathâs End - Cixin LiuChildren Of Ruin - Adrian TchaikovskyElla Minnow Pea - Mark DunnDriftglass - Sam DelanyThe Road - Cormac McCarthyThings Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe24 Jigsaw - Ed McBainThe Monarch Of The Glen - Neil GaimanBlack Dog - Neil GaimanBody In The Library - Agatha ChristieAn Event In Autumn - MankellUnder the Greenwood Tree (1872) - Thomas Hardy (+)The Castle Of Otranto - Horace WalpoleO009 Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock1848 Mary Barton - Elizabeth GaskellSmall Island - Andrea LevyAccidental Tourist - Anne Tyler (R) (+)The Honjin Murders - Seishi YokomizoAnna Of The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett (+)Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut (R)Sketches By Boz - Charles Dickens
(R) = reread(+) = favourites, probably
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
(that's 40+, helped by skipping the usual long foreign novel in spring and reading a bunch of sub-200 page things in october)
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
wrong thread, dipshit
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
dogs, yeah, I guess that I was unmoved by the knottiness of Toxiconâ it felt forced and unsurprising, plodding.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 25 December 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link