sailorsoftgirl
ellie (she/they) • elder emo • local library gremlin • fantasy and southern gothic horror enthusiast, but willing to try anything at least once • reading is political!!
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sailorsoftgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Okay, this really helped last time, I asked a question to you all as a little reward to come back to once I’m done with study and so I’m doing it again.
If you could add any service to the public library, what would it be and why?
It could be programs, different things to lend out, the sky is the limit. Budgets? We don’t know her. Funding is unlimited.
91sailorsoftgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I did a casual stocktake of my bookshelves this morning (I own a collection of around 400 books) and noticed I actually don’t own a physical copy of my top 5 books. My reading has changed over the years and probably use the library more than my younger years but I was still surprised and something I probably should change. Curious to know if there are others out there that own a collection with the same black hole.
61sailorsoftgirl commented on a List
Environmental History and Justice
History and justice, ecology style! From ancient China to the Little Ice Age, the swamps of North Carolina to the guano mines of Latin America, these books examine how history has shaped and been shaped by the environment and ecological conflict, thereby transforming the lives of people living both near and far—usually to the singular benefit of capitalist and imperialist forces. An ongoing work-in-progress, always open to suggestions!
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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food
Candice Chung
2sailorsoftgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Anyone else not finish trilogies?? I’ll love the first 2 books but then the third one will just go down hill. I DNFed Onyx storm after reading fourth wing and iron flame, and I also stopped reading the last book in the once upon a broken heart trilogy, because that book GETS ON MY NERVES. If you know you know. However I loved ouabh and the ballad of never after is one of my favourite books ever.
Anyone one else DNF the third book in series sometimes?
66sailorsoftgirl TBR'd a book
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food
Candice Chung
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2sailorsoftgirl commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I just heard the word "percolate" in a book podcast and I physically cringed. Not because there is anything wrong with the word or the context in which it was said. Because as a lawyer in the (evil and dying) United States, I've heard "percolate through the lower courts" far too many times by now and my immediate reaction is to roll my eyes. It doesn't help that such percolation usually results in the Supreme Court (🤢) having a final say on critical matters.
I'm curious--do you all have specific words or phrases that you can't stand because of your job or background?
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The Faint of Heart
Kerilynn Wilson
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Confirmed: small talk and town socials are nightmare fuel. One moment a random dude is getting you to try his moonshine, the next he's saying something wildly anti-semetic and talking about his experience with sex workers. If I was Frank, I'd run. But clearly this man is not the genius he seems to think he is.
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Interesting use of the imagined silent film to convey not the relationship between the characters but also the time in which the film takes place. Given this and other context clues, the setting is the rural South in the early 1930s. Good to know, because considering what has occurred so far, you could pretty much take the story and place it in just about any decade before the 1980s or thereabouts.
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Information Services Today: An Introduction
Sandra Krebs Hirsh
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"A barn owl sat on a branch pretty high up and turned its head to watch me. It noiselessly flew off into the deeper woods. Maybe I was so handsome it just had to tell somebody."
Wow, that's weirdly random and vain thought, my guy.
1sailorsoftgirl wrote a review...
In If the Dead Belong Here, Faust weaves together a story of generational trauma, grief, and remembrance. Though set in motion by the disappearance of a young girl in 1996, a series of flashbacks illustrate how decades of harm and loss have brought us to this point. His choice of language is very lyrical and intentional, serving to show how easy it is to be overcome and held back by grief, as if walking through the muck and mire.
Throughout the story, Faust asks if we are destined to walk the same paths of our ancestors and how we, as families, can heal ourselves. And it’s through the perspectives of three generations of women, Faust shows us that the only way forward is to revisit our past and the stories and people that came before us.
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If the Dead Belong Here
Carson Faust
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