My last wedding of a three wedding weekend was a short and sweet couple hours at the Old Murphey School in Durham. Though 10/10/2020 (the most popular wedding date ever) ended up a grey and rainy day in NC, Eric & Angela had a lovely socially distanced covid wedding ceremony. Favors for the guests included hand sanitizer and a custom mask made by Angela herself. Tables were spread out by household and everyone had individually packaged snacks for the socializing after the ceremony.
I got to work alongside Island Sound & Video producing film for the couple, and Angela had her hair done by Union Hair Studio. And another shoutout to Whole Foods for the Boston Creme wedding cake. Finally, their officiant was one of my favorite professors from Carolina Law! It was such a treat to see Professor Muller.
Some highlights from their wedding:
In addition to the masks, Angela made these decorative wire hangings that were on each table as additional favors for their small group of guests.
This was definitely the safest I’ve felt at a wedding during Covid. All of our couples have been very aware of the risks and done what they can to minimize those risks, with reduced guest counts, moving outdoors, having hand washing areas, taking temperatures, etc. but Eric & Angela and their friends and family were by far the most diligent about distancing and masks. The only time masks were off were for Eric & Angela and their officiant during the ceremony (where they stood on opposite sides of the stage), for close family outside for a quick round of portraits, and for some bites of cake.
Eric & Angela are both Ph.D.s at Duke University Libraries so it was no surprise to their guests that they incorporated readings into their ceremony. Both were excellent speakers and it felt like it could have been a toastmasters sponsored wedding.
And of course there were some lovely personal vows as well!
After the ceremony, we were lucky enough to have a break in the misty rain to be able to go outside for some portraits.
We’ve already covered the masks and the wire hangings, let’s chat about my favorite one of the DIY features: Angela’s paper bouquet. She used sheet music, maps, and her dissertation to create these lovely origami blooms!!
Back inside for some cake – Boston Creme flavored!!
A thank you toast to all their friends and family capped off the festivities. And I’ll say my own thank you to Eric & Angela for having me document their “hashtag microwedding”. It was a great way to celebrate 10/10/2020!
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Finding Common Grounds: Rediscovering the Common Narrative of Turkey and Europe
“Finding Common Grounds: Rediscovering the Common Narrative of Turkey and Europe” is the result of the combined efforts of 9 authors who came together to discuss the possible ways forward for Turkey’s EU accession process. As an indication of the content of the book, the authors are likened to “a very atypical group of passengers who found themselves in the same carriage of a train that was speeding towards a point where the track might end. Some of them were searching for a way to stop the train and bring it back to a junction from where they could travel more safely to the desired destination. Others were convinced that there was no way to stop it and they were rather trying to see how to build a new track so that the train could carry on”. Published in 2009 with support from the German Marshall Fund, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bratislava as well as the Open Society Foundation in Bratislava and published by the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, this book has positively contributed to the discourse regarding Turkey’s EU accession since that time. An electronic copy (in English) of the book can be accessed here.
The Following is an Excerpt from the Book Detailing the Chapter’s Contents
“The collection starts with contribution of Hurriyet Daily News
editor-in-chief David Judson, who in his essay looks on what media
can and cannot do in breaking the obvious communication divide
between the EU and Turkey. Then we follow with four articles looking at EU decision-making vis-à-vis Turkey. Adam Szymański writes about the Eu’s fears vis-à-vis Turkish membership and suggests some policies the EU had better employ now. David Král looks at what could be expected from the Czech EU presidency and Deniz Bingol Mcdonald and Peter Balazs analyze the roles of conditionality and public opinion in enlargement. Ceren Ak, Sylvia Tiryaki and Mensur Akgün evaluate the union’s approach after last year’s evaluation report. We close the volume by another reflection by Lucia Najslova– an essay on “talking Turkey” in Slovakia or what it takes to mainstream a seemingly marginal topic.”


- Temperley, David. 2018. The Musical Language of Rock. New York, NYY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
- Lucas, Olivia. 2016. “Loudness, Rhythm, and Environment: Analytical Issues in Extreme Metal.” Dissertation, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard.———. 2018. “‘So Complete in Beautiful Deformity’: Unexpected Beginnings and Rotated Riffs in Meshuggah’s ObZen.” Music Theory Online 24 (3). http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.18.24.3/mto.18.24.3.lucas.html.
Pieslak, Jonathan. 2007. “Re-Casting Metal: Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Meshuggah.” Music Theory Spectrum 29 (2): 219–45. https://doi.org/10.1525/ mts.2007.29.2.219
Smialek, Eric. 2008. “Re-Thinking Metal Aesthetics: Complexity, Authenticity, and Audience in Meshuggah’s I and Catch 33.” Masters Thesis, Montreal: McGill University.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe/comments/18nsky/ the_guide_to_the_parallax_ii_future_sequence/
Examples of ABAC-AMPs: (from Calder’s master thesis)
Blood Incantation – Vitrification of Blood, first riff (3/4 + 5/4 + 3/4 + 6/4): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah1qrJjhDIs
Protest the Hero – Bloodmeat, first riff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzIWVFOLvLk
Cannibal Corpse – Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead, first riff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFTUkFyO4ro
The Faceless – Xenochrist, both breakdown riffs (3:38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X135yzarhFQ
The Dillinger Escape Plan – 43% Burnt, breakdown riff
Meshuggah’s – The Demon’s Name is Surveillance: The song can be heard as an extended meditation on this construction, using several versions of a 1, 1-2, 1-2-3 pattern.
- Correction pieces of the riff from “Lay Your Ghosts to Rest” are not in 7/8 and 4/8; it is 4/4 – 4/4 – 7/8 – 4/4 and 4/4 – 4/4. +Silent flight parliament?
- Burnham, Scott. 2000. Beethoven Hero. 3. print., 1. pb. print. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
- The Mars Volta “Cassandra Gemini” from Frances the Mute
- He wanted to mention Wye Allenbrook in addition to Leonard Ratner and Kofi Agawu, and also Melanie Lowe and William Echard, the research of whom he cites when addressing topic theory.
- Overture 1812: It features cannons, not guns. (AC/DC did not come up with the idea)
- Huang, Hao, and Rachel Huang. 1994. “Billie Holiday and Tempo Rubato: Understanding Rhythmic Expressivity.” Annual Review of Jazz Studies 7: 181.
The song “Practice makes perfect”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSojqL8jDSk
- Winkler, Peter. 1997. “Writing Ghost Notes: The Poetics and Politics of Transcriptions.” In Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, and Culture, edited by David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, and Lawrence Siegel, 169–203. Knowledge: Disciplinarity and Beyond. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
- Mynett, Mark. 2017. Metal Music Manual: Producing, Engineering, Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music. New York ; London: Routledge.
- Stockhausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen
- Huron, David. 2007. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. 1. MIT Press paperb. ed. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Smialek, Eric. 2015. “Genre and Expression in Extreme Metal Music, ca. 1990-2015.” Dissertation, Montréal, QC. Canada: McGill University.
- Bertrand Russel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
Theodor Adorno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno
De gustibus non est disputandum (and not disputandur): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
- Music theorists as crypto-platonists: Ford, Phil. 2019. “Style as Analysis.” In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, and John Brackett. Routledge Music Companions. Taylor and Francis Group.
- King Woodchuck mentioned in Smialek master’s thesis p91-98 and 123-126. (see footnote number 2)
- Meshuggah’s combustion with a click added: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYClJk8Zv4
- The article about the dubbit is: Dubiel, Joseph. 2017. “Music Analysis and Kinds of Hearing-As.” Music Theory and Analysis (MTA) 4 (2): 233–42. https://doi.org/10.11116/MTA.4.2.4.
- Berger, Harris, and Cornelia Fales. 2005. “”Heaviness” in the Perception of Heavy Metal Guitar Timbres: The Match of Perceptual and Acoustic Features over Time.” In Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures, edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello, 181–97. Music/Culture. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
Walser, Robert. 1993. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Music/Culture. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
- Danielsen, Anne. 2006. Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament. Music/Culture. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. ———, ed. 2010. Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
- Piper, Jonathan. 2013. “Locating Experiential Richness in Doom Metal.” PhD Dissertation, San Diego: University of California San Diego. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bq7387s.
- Keil, Charles. 1995. “The Theory of Participatory Discrepancies: A Progress Report.” Ethnomusicology 39 (1): 1–19.
- Macolm Braff’s “General Theory of Rhythm”: http://general-theory-of-rhythm.org/
- Krebs, Harald. 1987. “Some Extensions of the Concepts of Metrical Consonance and Dissonance.” Journal of Music Theory 31 (1): 99–120. ———. 1999. Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann. New York: Oxford University Press.
- London, Justin. Temporal Complexity in Modern and Post-Modern Music: A Critique from Cognitive Aesthetics. in Unfolding Time: Studies in Temporality in Twentieth Century Music, Darla Crispin, ed. Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute, vol. 9, Leuven University Press (2009): 45-68. London, Justin. 2012. Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Galen Degraf—http://www.galendegraf.com/theory.html
- Butler, Mark J. 2001. “Turning the Beat Around: Reinterpretation, Metrical Dissonance, and Asymmetry in Electronic Dance Music.” Music Theory Online 7 (6). https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.01.7.6/mto.01.7.6.butler.html
Butler, Mark Jonathan. 2006. Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music. Profiles in Popular Music. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.
- Zbikowski, Lawrence Michael. 2017. Foundations of Musical Grammar. Oxford Studies in Music Theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Clifton Boyd: https://yalemusic.yale.edu/people/clifton-boyd
- Doll, Christopher. 2017. Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era. Tracking Pop. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Max Seaman’s interview on the Rough City podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfAbIXk7kfU&t=89s
- Bands mention: Krallice, Behold the Arctopus, Yellow Eyes, Imperial Triumphant, Psyopus, Hiatus Kaiyote, Haunt (band from California), Khemmis; to this list Calder adds Orgone (https://orgoneus.bandcamp.com)
- Nai Palm @ Paste studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDpdaUG5vjE
Nervosa (all-female thrash metal band from Brazil): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH7oNQ2SYs8
- Khemmis and Sunn O))): I actually confused Khemmis and Khanate.
- Jacob Collier’s workflow:
More recent, Logic Session Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naxu8D0xXVU
- I was wrong, sorry, but it is close: Ian McEwan, author of Atonement. I remember getting this anecdote about his writing process from a writing professor in undergrad.
- Burns, Lori. 2019. “Interpreting Transmedia and Multimodal Narratives: Steven Wilson’s ‘The Raven That Refused to Sing.’” In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, and John Brackett. Routledge Music Companions. Taylor and Francis Group.


JOSEPH LUZZI is a writer and professor of Italian at Bard College. The first child in his Calabrian family born in the U.S., he is the author of the memoir My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2014. He is a frequent contributor of essays and reviews to publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, the London Times Literary Supplement, and many others. His first book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale Univ. Press 2008), received the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and he is the author of A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2014). His work has been translated into Italian and Portuguese, and he has lectured throughout the world on art, film, literature, and Italian culture.
Read Nina Shengold’s Chronogram profile.
“Writing With All Five Senses” – The Exercises
Hard to believe we’ve reached the end of our Fall 2014 Word Café series! But Joseph Luzzi finished our 12-course literary banquet with style, reading from his new memoir My Two Italies, and discussing his transition from scholarly writing (Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy and A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film) to more personal writing. The key was our discussion topic: “Writing With All Five Senses.”
Joe described coming home after school in the afternoon, hoping for the aroma of his mother’s homemade bread, and being greeted instead by the noxious fumes of boiling tripe. It was the unbidden memory of that smell, he says, that started his writing on a new path. (“Proust got madeleines, I got boiled cow stomach,” he quipped.)
The sense of smell conveys the strongest memories, he says. But sounds, tastes, and textures–“things you can get your hands dirty with”–are equally evocative, and ground your writing in sensual details that connect the reader. Sight is less physical and more familiar–it’s the “go-to” sense for description. Nina commented that it’s often useful to think about which sense is dominant in a fictional character and explore that imagery.
Joe also spoke about the need for spontaneity in writing: “If you turn the screw too many times, you wipe out the threads. Trying too hard can mean losing the joy and flow.” He reminded us that everyone has a natural idiom, something we know well and can talk about fluidly, in our natural voice. “Tell that story,” he said. “Write the book you really need to write.”
Think about something you’ve already written and reconceive it, letting the senses activate the ideas. Bring what was in your mind into the body, the physical details of the experience.
Write about a specific family meal or dish, using all five senses to describe its preparation and consumption. Happy Thanksgiving!


There were several movies from last week but this is the one I chose to share, The Valley of Decision. It may have not been the best movie I watched but it's the only one with Gregory Peck in it. It's the third movie he made so it's a relatively young Peck but you can't tell, his acting skills in this movie are just as sharp as any other. This is one of those sappy "love" stories. Peck's character, Paul Scott, is the son of a wealthy steel mill owner. Paul works at the mill and his younger siblings spend the money. Mary, played by Greer Garson, is the "Irish maid" that's hired to take care of two of the siblings. The movie is described as the Irish maid falls in love with wealthy boss's son but it's more the other way around. Paul falls for Mary and what's not to like? There's no official trailer for the movie but I found this clip that someone put on Youtube, it shows Mary Rafferty bringing the sass.
The book I read, Lautrec. I'm currently working on a project that I needed some inspiration in order to get more momentum. Illustrating a children's book, it helps to know what the kids are reading these days, so I hit the pavement and headed to the library. Feeling somewhat satisfied with my brilliant idea to see how other artists dealt with design issues I made my way up and down the aisles to grab some books. I fully intended on looking, not actually checking anything out because, I'll admit it, I felt a bit creepy in the kiddie section. With a pile of books in hand I decided to look for a book that I would check out and read at home. As I was walking through the aisles, with much disappointment(seriously, this library has a whole section of Harlequin romance novels. LAME!), one of the librarians kindly mentioned that they would be closing in 10 minutes. Seriously? The sun was just beginning to set? The librarians must be werewolves. So, in a hurry, I grabbed a bunch of books that looked halfway interesting, nothing from the Harlequin section, soon to be renamed the old lady fan-fiction section. I grabbed this book, Lautrec by Denys Sutton and felt pretty good about that selection. Then I went to check out and the librarian wasn't going to let me take it. She said I reached my limit of children's books, you can only check out five at a time. WHAT!? I was fully prepared to hand her one back but why did she call me out on this one and then call it a children's book? It reminded me of the time I volunteered as a docent and was teaching a classroom full of fifth graders about Vincent Van Gogh. There were two "naked lady" drawings in the books I passed around and OH MY GOD WHAT A HORRIBLE PERSON I WAS FOR SHOWING THAT TO FIFTH GRADERS!!!! Yea, that happened and the teacher wasn't even going to back me up on it, she told me if the parents got angry I had to deal with it. I don't volunteer with that group anymore. Point is, there are way more naked ladies in this book and it wasn't even in the children's book section, so what gives? Anywho, the book is put together very well. The description of the plates are really well done. Most books on art/artists have all the claptrap from art historians, but this is actually informative. They give the technical information, some background information on the people/places depicted in them and where they're on display,or at least were when the book was published. The introduction is a little art historian-y, as in it contains a slight amount of BS. When writers write as if they know why an artist painted a certain way, or why they changed their style, unless they can back that up they really can't say. Saying someone chose to paint something red because of some sort of influence, unless the artist themselves said it, it's speculation, BS. There's another section called "Toulouse-Lautrec as Seen by his Contemporaries", how odd that almost every single one commented on the way Lautrec looked. "He looked more like an ape than a man", "with a broad forehead, fine and extremely intelligent eyes, he had lips of a startling scarlet, turned as it were outwards, and strangely wide, which gave a hideous expression to his face", "his black eyes shone furiously, eyes that amused themselves enormously", "he had thick lips, and hands such as he draws with bony, wide-apart fingers and bent-back thumbs". Then the section, "Toulouse-Lautrec as seen by the Critics", not as much is said about his personal life or appearance here, but about his work. None of them used the same words to describe his work, but it seems as though they all agreed he was a genius. They may not have enjoyed looking at his work, one even called it monstrous, but that same critic praised his genius for colour combinations and called him a master in all of the mediums.
In a way I'm glad the librarians are werewolves because I would not have read this book if I wasn't forced to check it out and be on my way. I would have simply glanced at the pictures and left it for them to sniff out its home and replace it on the shelf.


The Role of Culture in Health Communication
Kreuter, M.; McClure, S.
Annual Review of Public Health
January 1, 2004
This paper examines the role of culture as a factor in enhancing the effectiveness of health communication.We describe culture and how it may be applied in audience segmentation and introduce a model of health communication planning—McGuire’s communication/persuasion model—as a framework for considering the ways in which culture may influence health communication effectiveness. For three components of the model (source, message, and channel factors), the paper reviews how each affects communication and persuasion, and how each may be affected by culture. We conclude with recommendations for future research on culture and health communication.


by Hanna Bremer.
Zeitschrift für Geomorphology N.F., 2010, Vol. 54, Suppl. Issue 1. 337 p., 132 fig., 91 tab. Paperback.
The "Cologne Regolith Database" (CRD) is the result of more than twenty years research in the tropics by staff members and students of the Geographical Institute of the University of Cologne (Germany) under the direction of Prof. Hanna Bremer. It contains results for more than 1200 samples studied in detail in the field and the laboratory. More than 30 parameters, each comprising several components, were thoroughly studied and statistically evaluated. The final step of such large research programme is of course its synthesis, and this is exactly what we find in this book.
Weathering being the basis of all geomorphological processes, a dominant part of the book is devoted to this subject. Different aspects of weathering are discussed, based largely on mineralogical and micromorphological studies. After the characterisation of saprolites, their transformation to other regolith material, including soils, is discussed. This is followed by the analysis of erosional and morphogenetic processes on different rock types in different environments. Throughout the book the influence of parent material and enviromnental conditions is emphasised, without forgetting the role of the palaeoenviromnent.
A wealth of precise data is given. Therefore it is regrettable that for some concepts no precise definitions are given. For instance, the concepts of regolith versus saprolite and soil are not clearly delimited, and micromorphological descriptions do not use standard terminology. Also the identification of soils is not based on an international system.
The book contains many diagrams and instructive colour pictures of profiles and thin sections. (for the
latter images between crossed polarisers are shown) with extensive and instructive captions. The numerical system used for titles and subtitles (e.g. 10.5.3. Planar processes followed by 10.5.3.1. Field observation) makes the structure of the text very clear and cross referencing efficient.
"Geoecology in the Tropics" contains a large amount of qualitatively excellent data and new insights
concerning the genesis of tropical regoliths and their relationship with geomorphology. Extensive citation of less well known local publications opens new horizons, and compensates a rather limited referencing to international literature. Although this is not a traditional book on soils, it is most interesting and innovative with regard to soil formation in the tropics because of its global approach, and therefore highly recommended for pedologists, geomorphologists and ecologists working in tropical zones. Also for palaeopedologists and palaeoecologists working in temperate zones it is a most useful document.
More information : www.schweizerbart.de
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Vancouver Rock Climbing was shortlisted as a finalist in the guidebook category at the 2016 Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival.


Best of TEASIG Volume 2 (2021) contains a selection of articles which were included in TEASIG Newsletters and Conference Proceedings in the years from 2003 to 2011. Various key topics and issues that helped shape testing practice during these years are reflected, many of which are still highly relevant to testing, assessment and evaluation today. We are sure that TEASIG members will enjoy reading this valuable collection from the early years of this millennium, and find the articles interesting, informative and inspiring.
Download an overview of Best of TEASIG Volume 2 here.
TEASIG members can access and download the online book by logging into the IATEFL Members’ Area at https://www.iatefl.org/ and clicking on My Resources.
Best of TEASIG Volume 1 (2019), which covers the years 1992 to 2001, is also available to TEASIG members from the My Resources webpage of the main IATEFL site.


Writing the next chapter – a growing programme for a growing Church
From January 2016 we are embarking on an exciting and innovative new phase in the worship life of the Church.
Here you will find a number of papers outlining the plans
There is a summary of the paper presented to Church Council by Mark Dunn-Wilson in which he outlines the thinking of the Ministry and Leadership Teams
There is the information paper given to members giving details of the programme
And links to two sermons outlining the theology behind the changes.
Here, we do not seek to answer all the questions – but it does give a little of the background to the journey the Team have travelled this part year.


Neni Panourgia is a Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Classics and a Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia University. In January 2013 she became Co-Editor (Social Sciences) for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Professor Panourgia is the author of numerous publications, including Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography(University of Wisconsin Press, 1995) and Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State (Fordham University Press, 2008). Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State, received the 2011 Edmund Keeley Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association, the 2011 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the American Anthropological Association, and an Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award, and is also forthcoming in Greek translation by Editions Kastaniotis. She co-edited with George Marcus the volume Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretative Anthropology (Fordham University Press, 2008).
Her research interests include: poststructuralism, ethnographic theory, exceptional spaces, critical medical studies, humans/machines, and Europe.
She is most interested in "life": bare, naked, clothed, conceptualized, contested, taken, given, suspended, sustained. And she also is interested in what surrounds life: humans who want to give it meaning, take its meaning, make worlds that this life inhabits, keep this life from expiring. And in the politics that surrounds this life and these humans: crude partisan, sophisticated intellectual, engaged, activist, philosophical. Or brutally pragmatic: in the concentration camp, in the prison, in the school (in the camp and the prison as school), in the hospital, in the cemetery. And at what translates meaning: ritual, kin, law, the body (of the patient, of the condemned, of the student, of the desired). Previously, she was most interested in "death" and "the dead." She is still interested in writing: how to write about life, how to talk and write about death, what happens when one talks and writes about their specters. She looks at all this in Greece (and occasionally elsewhere). Originally at the Children's Hospital in Athens, then at the Cancer Institute, then at the concentration camps of the Greek Civil War. Currently, at the Intensive Care Unit.


In June 2004, the first meeting of the Affinity Group library directors was held on the campus of Butler University. The group has met annually since that time just prior to the ALA annual convention on a host campus near the ALA convention site. In January 2007, the Affinity Group library directors met in conjunction with ALA midwinter as well. These meetings have broadened the scope of the Affinity Group to include vital discussions among directors regarding a myriad of challenges and issues confronting academic librarianship, and in particular comprehensive, private university libraries. Out of these discussions, a listserv and a web site were developed. Additional cooperative and data sharing projects are currently in various stages of development.
The Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (2004) encourages each library to choose its own peer group for purposes of comparison. Once a peer group has been determined, “points of comparison” can be made to compare the strength of the library with its peers. The Affinity Group of Academic Libraries formed based on this impetus. The first survey was conducted in Fall 2000 among six Midwestern peer institutions. The response to the results achieved by this initial survey was exceptionally positive. The initial group believed that expanding the peer comparisons to a national level would be more beneficial. As a result, the group has now expanded to include 33 private, Masters level institutions from all sections of the United States. Criteria considered for admission to the Affinity Group include factors such as the institution’s mission, reputation, selectivity for admission, size of budget, size of endowment, expenditure for library support, retention rates, etc. Surveys have been conducted each fall since 2000 and are now archived on the Affinity Group website


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Edited by Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr, PandoQuarterly is published four times a year and contains over 100 pages of long-form journalism, features, illustrations and photography from Pando writers and contributors.
Issue One (Jan 2014) is our comics journalism special, edited by Pulitzer-prize nominee, Matt Bors.
UPDATE: Issue One will be published mid-Jan 2014. We were hoping to have it ready by late Dec '13, but changing format and paper stock took slightly more work than anticipated. Apologies.


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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.
Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more.
This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The
are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim
it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written
annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a
powerful seminar by Covey.
Habit 1 - be proactive
This is the ability to control one's environment, rather than have it control you, as is so often the case. Self determination, choice, and the power to decide response to stimulus, conditions and circumstances.


Band of Brothers
HBO’s Award Winning 10 part TV mini Series
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The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear – and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose’s acclaimed book of the same name.
Co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the award-winning series features Damian Lewis, James McAvoy and Simon Pegg


Significant overall reduction in time allocated to classic literary texts will make it hard to give poetry the prominence it deserves
BOSTON – April is National Poetry Month, but poetry is not well addressed in keeping Core's English language arts standards. It's unclear whether the genre will survive a typical Core-based English classroom because of the dramatic reduction in time allocated to literary texts implicitly mandated by these national standards, and the ambivalence, otherwise hostility, of the standards writers towards literature, based on new research authored by Pioneer Institute.
The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction
In “The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction,” co-authored by Anthony Esolen, Jamie Highfill, and Sandra Stotsky, Esolen, a poet and professor of literature at Providence College, concludes, “The Common Core proponents do not like poetry.”
Professor Esolen, who between 2002 and 2005 translated the three volumes of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for the Modern Library, describes why poetry is at the center of an education that seeks to change a child into a fully realized individual. Highfill, an award-winning English teacher, then describes the three-part process by which poetry has traditionally learned in American schools.
The first step is exercising this is of poems, simultaneously fostering students' own considering meaning. The second is developing poetry-reading skills by helping students analyze literary features like tone, structure, themes, rhythm and rhyme and elegance. The ultimate step is for students to write about poetry and write their very own poems.
“A school's poetry curriculum isn't designed to teach skills that can help students get jobs,” Highfill says. “It is to 'make minds, not careers.' When a mind is strengthened, so is the opportunity to secure employment.”
The report offers an instance study from the texts and themes recommended with a Common Core consultant for any Common Core-based literature unit in the school system she taught in until a year ago.
University of Arkansas Professor emerita Sandra Stotsky traces a brief history from the poetry curriculum in this country's public schools. She notes the paucity of poetry contained in Common Core and also the incoherent listing of poems within an appendix that gives teachers little guidance concerning the poems' relative complexity or quality. “It's unclear whether the real audience for the appendix is English teachers or the editorial board from the Ny Times,” she says.
The shrinking role of poetry in public places schools is especially troubling in Massachusetts, a state whose poets form this type of large number in our national literary heritage.
Not only was Massachusetts the home of Emily Dickinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Bay State has produced a minimum of five Usa Poets Laureate. At least another five Massachusetts poets have won Pulitzer Prizes, and 2 more have won Nobel Prizes.
In accessory for his work on Dante, Professor Esolen may be the editor and translator of two other didactic and epic poems for contemporary Library: Lucretius' Around the Nature of products and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered.
Jamie Highfill was chosen 2011 Middle School English Teacher of the Year by the Arkansas Council of Teachers of English Arts and taught grade 8 English in Fayetteville, Arkansas for 11 years.
From 1991-97, Sandra Stotsky was the editor of Research within the Teaching of English, published by the National Council of Teachers of English. She was also in charge of developing and revising Massachusetts' 2001 English Language Arts Curriculum Framework.
Common Core's Validation: An inadequate Foundation for any Crooked House; Decreasing the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare Students for STEM; How Common Core's ELA Standards Place College Readiness in danger; Common Core Standards Still Don't Result in the Grade; The direction to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the peak, and Conditional Waivers; National Price of Aligning States and Localities towards the Common Core Standards, and A Republic of Republics: How Common Core Undermines State and Local Autonomy over K-12 Education. Pioneer produced a video series: Setting the Record Straight: Part 1, and Part 2, and has earned national media coverage, including op-eds put into The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard.


We have just uploaded a number of the club's regular Sunday club run routes and associated GPS files for download. As more routes are developed we will add them to the library. Please feel free to browse or download, the more people who have an idea of the routes we take the better. Obviously, don't just rely on the GPS files when you are planning a ride - they aren't substitues for common sense.
The library has been put together by Nick Hickman and builds on the excellent foundations laid by Keith Rapley.


MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS
The course presents latest developments of advanced characterization on microstructure of cementitious materials, according to the latest methodology developments. IT is based on the book produced by the Nanocem team and edited by Karen Scrivener, Ruben Sneling and Barbara Lotenbach, which for the first time presents in an organized way a comprehensive methodology for microstructure characterization of cement-based materials.
Prof. Scrivener (EPFL – https://people.epfl.ch/karen.scrivener ) has been the most influential researcher in cement-based materials science for more than a decade. She is editor of the Cement and Concrete Research and scientific coordinator of Nanocem, the European network on cement-based materials that has been redefining the fundamentals of cement technology.
The course was organized by the National Institute on Advanced Eco-Efficient Cement-Based Technologies (CEMtec), funded by Fapesp and CNPq.
The course contents are:
- SEM – EDS
- TG (by V.M. John)
- Proton 1H NMR
Microstructural characterization of Cementitious materials – Introduction – 35 min
This lecture Prof. Scrivener presents an overview of the difficulties of characterization the microstructure of multiphase cementitious materials. A overview of the major characterization techniques is presented, including cement storage, sample mixing and preparation, techniques to stop hydration, and the use of chemical shrinkage as an indicator of hydration.
X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
Prof. Scrivener discusses in detail the use of XRD in for the characterization of cementitious materials microstructure. It presents the fundamentals of the XRD, the latest advances including the Rietveld method, which did substitute the Bogue formula on the estimation of the clinker mineral phases. Details of sample preparation, including hydration stoppage techniques as well as advanced techniques as combination of XRD with selective dissolution of phases. Quantitative phases analysis is discussed in detail. Several examples are given.
Electron Microscopy of Cementitious Materials (SEM & TEM)
Prof. Scrivener presents a summary of her large experience on pushing forward the use of SEM on the cement-based materials microstructure. Fundamentals of SEM technique are presented. The use of secondary, backscattered and X-rays demonstrated. Sample preparation, a major difficulty, is discussed with more detail and practical tips are given. Examples of interpretation of results, including the use of image analysis and statistics, as well combination with other techniques are given. At the end Prof. Scrivener makes a short introduction of transmission electronic microscopy (TEM).
Prof. Vanderley John (USP) presents a set of slides produced by Barbara Lotenbach, Klartjee de Werdt the fundamentals of thermogravimetry analysis applied to cement, including sample preparation and analysis techniques, which is always a crucial aspect of testing. Possibilities and limits of phase quantification as well as most common mistakes on the analysis are exemplified. The slides were produced by
Porosity by Proton, 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(Proton 1H NMR) – 35min
In this last module, Prof. Scrivener presents the Porton 1H NMR, the most recent, and less known techniques, that can be used, among other things, to quantify cementitious materials porosity. Details of the test method are presented and several examples are given. Systematic comparison with mercury intrusion porosimetry is presented.


Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies
Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, aesthetics, and digital humanities. Her scholarly reputation was established with The Century of Artists’ Books (Granary, 1995) The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), and The Visible Word (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Her creative work was the subject of a retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, initiated by Columbia College in Chicago in 2012. Her artist’s books are represented in special collections in museums and libraries in North American and Europe. Her 1988 work, Bookscape, was featured in the “Artists and their Books” exhibit at the Getty Research Institute in summer 2018. In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent work includes Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014), The General Theory of Social Relativity, (The Elephants, 2018), and Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Pres, 2018). In 2019 she was in residence as the inaugural Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and has also been the recipient of Mellon, Fulbright, and Getty Fellowships. Recent publications include: Visualizing Interpretation (MIT, 2020), Iliazd: Metabiography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), and The Digital Humanities Coursebook (Routledge, 2021). Her work has been translated into Korean, Italian, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Danish and Portuguese.


Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Nothing makes you feel happier about your family than reading about someone else's dysfunctional family..and this family is doozy!
Alice is the matriarch. But she isn't lovable or grandmotherly. She is prickly.
Alice's family has been coming to the beach for years. At first it was a happy affair, cousins and family piled up for a summer stay in their cozy beach shack. But things have evolved over the years, things like dislike and summer schedules. The family mostly still returns to the beach house, but in shifts - never over lapping.
This summer, however, things will be different.
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan.
Author Emily Wilson is heartbroken. While struggling through a divorce, she receives an invitation to her ex-husband's wedding. Awful circumstances. So when her Great Aunt Bee calls her back to Bainbridge Island for a few weeks, Emily has nothing to lose. She heads back to a spot that she had much fondness for during childhood, thinking she will both write and heal herself.
While settling in one night, Emily finds a red velvet diary in her bedside table, one that has an intriguing story. She cautiously chooses not to ask her Aunt about it. The story is both heartbreaking and fascinating, a story that has roots in Bainbridge Island and touches everyone that Aunt Bee knows.
This is a story that will pull you in and intrigue you...until you get to the end. I liked the writing and I liked the idea of the plot, but I couldn't help but feel the author pulled a big trick on her readers by obscuring the truth about her characters.
After reading and loving Rules of Civility, History of a Pleasure Seeker was recommended. Author Richard Mason gives us a glimpse of Amsterdam in the early 1900s through the eyes of Piet Barol. Piet is a shameless social climber. After living a modest life with his father on a college campus, Piet longs to have the finer things in his life. He takes the lessons that he has learned from the affluent college students and applies to be a tutor.
The Vermeulen-Sickerts are rich and powerful, but their son, Egbert, has a mix of agoraphobia and schizophrenia. He battles monsters daily that keep him inside and force him to follow a rigid schedule, denying himself any real pleasure in life. They hire Piet, hoping to break Egbert out of his shell.
Piet ensconces himself both with the family and with the household staff, enjoying the experiences of both worlds. He charms the Vermeulen-Sickerts sisters, he is taken into the confidences of Mr. Vermeulen-Sickerts. Eventually Piet cracks the code of Egbert's mind and as a reward, is given a large sum of money. As a result, he is finally able to buy his dream, only to find that nothing is what it seems.
This book was interesting and quick to read, but a little too sexual in nature for my comfort. :)
Our heroine, Katey, starts out as a poor girl sharing a room in a boarding house with her friend, Eve. Eve is glamorous in a way that Katey admires, but doesn't necessarily envy. One night when they're out at a jazz club, they meet a wealthy bachelor, Tinker. He is fun, young, and wealthy, and he treats the girls to several dates. Katey finds herself falling for Tinker when something happens that strains the fabric of the friendships between the three. Katey finds herself on the outside of what used to be a cozy triangle and decides it is time to make her way on her own in NYC.
Through some interesting circumstances in her career, Katey finds herself moving up in the world. She also finds herself in new social circles. She dates a few guys, trying to find someone that fits what she is looking for, several of them charming.
Tinker and Eve eventually have a falling out and separate, Tinker finds his way back to Katey and they have a relationship, but it is a shadow of the way things could have been and Katey knows it. Katey has grown into herself over time, however, and she finds that Tinker's affections neither control or determine her course.
It is such a fascinating story and I loved the way that Amor Towles made me feel like I was one of Katey's friends, enjoying the martinis and jazz clubs of NYC. It was a dazzling novel.


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I love Victorian novels and storytelling. As a grad student specializing in Victorian Literature, it kind of comes with the territory. However, that doesn’t mean that all I read is Victorian Literature. I grew up an avid reader; a habit that has carried over into adulthood. I read a wide range of genres and forms – that is, I read when I can find the time to outside of coursework and research.! One of my favourite forms to read, most recently, is comics and graphic novels. My first few interactions with the form had been during my undergrad: profs included it on their syllabi or dedicated courses to teaching about the form. Ultimately what I gathered from my undergrad experience working with comics is the non-traditional storytelling engaged by comics and graphic novels, make the form a significant addition to literary studies: providing us with new ways of expressing, representing, and communicating – ways that allow us to begin moving away from fraught literary traditions and canon.
Recently, I have been thinking a lot about Lee Francis IV and Weshoyot Alvitre’s Sixkiller: an Indigenous graphic retelling of the Victorian children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. There are so many things about this comic that are fascinating, and I could not stop thinking about it after the first time I encountered it. As someone who loves (as mentioned) both Victorian literature and alternative forms of storytelling, Sixkiller is right up my alley.
Sixkiller is one of the texts I am analyzing in a paper I’m writing on Indigenous Gothic Comics. I have had a lot of time to think about the comic itself, and throughout the writing process, I have found myself questioning: how do colonial texts like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, when appropriated and translated into an Indigenous worldview function as an act of resistance? Further, how do non-traditional forms assist in these acts of resistance?
Let’s begin by unpacking Sixkiller: what about Francis’s retelling makes it a fundamentally Indigenous text, and how does that act of indigenization ultimately align our understanding of an Indigenous text as an act of resistance?
Sixkiller retells Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by resituating it in contemporary times and an Indigenous worldview. However, it also makes direct reference to Carroll’s work within the text itself. In the Preface the narrator, who we come to know as Alice, is speaking in narratives boxes that overlay images of what appears to be the scene of a struggle, and later, murder. The narrative boxes state: “My sister used to read to me at night. There’s one poem I memorized. The end went like this… A childish story take… And with gentle hand… Lay it where childhood’s dream are twined… In memory’s mystic band… Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers… Pluck’d in a far off land… Yup, I used to love that one.”
The text notifies the reader through Carroll’s poem that this text has direct connections to the original Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. However, by situating the poem over such a harrowing scene, the text is flipping the reader’s expectations. This story is not one of a young girl stumbling her way through a magic world: in fact, it is one that forces the reader to face the realities of what it can mean to live in a society that seeks to destroy you, your culture, and your people.
In this retelling, Alice is a young Indigenous woman, mourning the very recent loss of her older sister, and dealing with pre-existing mental illness.
Alice has been living in a “sanitary home,” having been confined there by her sister’s boyfriend – yes, the same one that the text implies has killed Alice’s sister.
Alice’s character is fundamental to the indigenization of Carroll’s narrative: primarily through her language and the expression of her beliefs. Alice demonstrates and embodies resilience. She exists in a system that seeks to undermine everything she is, as an Indigenous feminine identifying person with a mental illness (schizophrenia), and yet she remains steadfast in her beliefs and seeks to piece back together the identity that seems to have been shattered with the loss of her sister. As the reader follows Alice through her narrative, much like in the original Carroll story there are moments where we are faced with events and interactions that don’t seem possible, and things just continue to get curiouser and curiouser.
In Sixkiller, the role of the rabbit from Carroll’s story shifts and takes up new meaning. Not only is Rabbit a catalyst in Alice’s decision-making process to embark on her journey to seek revenge, but they also take up the Cherokee identity of Trickster – manifesting that identity physically through an uncanny expression of the double: tying in the duplicitous nature of the trickster figure of Rabbit.
By having the rabbit from the original tale take on a role from Indigenous beliefs of rabbit as trickster provides an extra layer to the story through the analogous association. We are all familiar with the rabbit from Carroll’s story – the “White Rabbit” with his pocket watch and his concerns about punctuality. This is not that creature. Instead we get an uncanny representation of what appears to be a jackrabbit. Physically representing a duality that does not exist within the original White Rabbit’s character. The depth forces the reader to acknowledge the background that is at play with casting the trickster in such a significant role in the story. By casting such a pivotal and familiar character as one with deeper connections to Cherokee legend, forces a centring of Indigenous understandings and worldviews, reminding the reader that this is an Indigenous story.
However, Francis’s Rabbit also seems to have concerns around time – although, these concerns tend more to warning Alice to be prepared when the time comes for Justice – foreshadowing the role that Alice is about to begin to play in seeking out revenge for her sister and herself. This concern for the timing of Justice, especially in terms of justice for Indigenous Women who were murdered, calls up present day ongoing issues of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit persons, rooting the story in a fundamentally Indigenous issue. By calling forth the MMIWG2S crisis, the text is bringing attention to the issue itself, but also adding another layer to the Indigenization of the narrative. Again, this story is not one of a young girl stumbling her way through a magic world: by fore-fronting such an issue the reader must face the reality of the constant threat of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two spirit peoples. This is a constant everyday reality. There is no potion labelled “drink me” that can make the threat just shrink away. Making this issue a part of the narrative infuses the text with Indigenous experience, further Indigenizing the story.
Legacies of Colonialism:
I want to take a moment to return to Alice’s living situation that we see that the beginning of the comic. The reader is told that the boyfriend of Alice’s older sister was the one who had Alice placed in the sanitary home, Rose Creek. The boyfriend is unable to “deal” with what Alice refers to as her “dreams,” something we are never really given much more of an explanation for, but ultimately, the ‘dreams’ give the boyfriend the excuse to separate Alice and her sister, ultimately echoing the destruction of Indigenous families through acts of colonization, ‘education,’ and ‘health care,’ from the 19th and 20th century, onward. Alice ends up managing to escape the facility, washed away in an unexpected flood that seems to be an overwhelming demonstration of pathetic fallacy.
The grief that Alice is experiencing at the loss of her sister is mirrored in the natural world. Alice being removed from Rose Creek by a physical manifestation of that grief (the flood) seems to imply, or at least echo the resistance that Indigenous peoples have and continue to exercise against colonization. Even when Alice seems to be faced with impossible situations she withstands and resists – her resilience is a major driving force of the story’s narrative.
The legacy of the Church in the genocide of the Indigenous peoples of North America is ongoing and significant. The choice to have Alice enter a church and take the items she needs for her journey acknowledges the history of the church in harming Indigenous peoples and communities, but centres the power with Alice.
She is in control of the way she interacts and moves through the space, she dictates her relationship with the landscape. Further, her internal monologue acknowledging her Creator: invoking her belief system, one not structured or influenced by the colonizer, further evacuates the symbolic power that might have remained in the landscape of the church.
The Comics Form and Language Revival:
Something that I wish that I had a bit more time and space in my paper on Indigenous Gothic Comics, is to consider how the comic/graphic form lends itself to an actively resistant form of storytelling in a colonial society. I will admit, I haven’t done the most research on this topic, however I think one of the easiest ways to begin thinking about this particular topic, especially with Sixkiller, is through the use of Creek language throughout the text. Alice as a young Cherokee woman is depicted throughout the first volume of the comic intermingling both English and Creek, the language of the Cherokee peoples. Because the text itself can quite literally rely on the concept of “show don’t tell” through the image portions of the text, we don’t necessarily have to be able to read the language to follow what Alice is saying when she slips into using Creek words or phrases. The visual aspects of the text provide clues and opportunities for the reader to infer what is being said by Alice, even if it isn’t immediately recognizable.
I wanted to point to this use of Creek in the text because not only does it add to the Indigenization of the text, it actually also brings into play conversations of Indigenous Language Revival! Indigenous language revival is an act of resistance against Colonialism and acts of cultural genocide that were employed through colonial tools such as residential schools. Indigenous language revival is exactly as it sounds – the effort to reconstruct and revive Indigenous languages that were ‘dying out’, for lack of a better term. Language revival moments crop up in order to preserve and revive Indigenous languages and provide opportunities to document and teach the languages to the younger generations of Indigenous communities.
The visual aspects of the text allow for storytelling to move away from ‘traditional’ narrative structures that are part of the western literary canon – a concept that has been and continues to be very influenced by settler colonial ideology. Traditionally, literary canon has been made up of mainly novels, poetry, prose writing. Heavy text pieces that are, in many ways, very different objects than a graphic and visual texts. The English language is and continues to play a role in colonialism, and thus more traditionally ‘acceptable’ text forms are overtly colonialist, pushing the expectation that narratives and ideas are being expressed through “civilized” languages. Furthermore, traditionally storytelling in Indigenous communities was not done through written documents, rather there is the Oral Tradition – a very dynamic and holistic way of passing knowledge, history, and cultural beliefs. The comics form provides a level of interaction with the narrative or information being passed along that is not found in a traditional settler-text. The form asks the reader to take a much more active role in the text, they have to read not only the text, but the images and the gutter spaces, and translate each of those pieces in order to make meaning. There is a level of responsibility that is placed with the reader when engaging with a narrative in comics form that, I think, provides opportunity for the reader to take into account what it is they are engaging with, and what it means to them.
I want to just take a moment and return to the questions I was asking, in order to better bring all of the different thoughts together.
I think I read somewhere, or perhaps heard someone say something along these lines before: being Indigenous in a colonial society is in itself an act of resistance. The continued existence of Indigenous peoples, cultures, and communities is an act of resistance against the ongoing efforts of settler-centric colonial society to destroy Indigenous peoples and culture. I haven’t for the life of me been able to find the quote – I am going to keep looking because I know it exists somewhere, and I am almost certain it was said by an Indigenous writer or scholar, and I would hate for such a powerful thought not receive its proper acknowledgement. The point of me referring to this sentiment, of Indigenous people existing as an act of resistance, is that if Indigenous peoples continuing to exist is already an act of resistance against colonialism, then creators reframing and destabilizing settler controlled narratives would also be an act of resistance, and an arguably active one at that: taking back the narrative and resituating it within an Indigenous worldview is a powerful act of resistance. Then, thinking about the way Sixkiller takes up a settler narrative and reframes it in Indigenous worldviews and experiences, the comic itself is an act of resistance by its both active and passive role as an Indigenous text.
By appropriating and resituating a settler text in an Indigenous worldview with Indigenous characters at the centre of it, not only speaks back to settler-created Indigenous characters, but further complicates understandings of storytelling and ideas. This act of appropriation is a reminder: we are being reminded that Indigenous peoples, communities, and cultures are still here. The persist even as settler-colonial society attempted and continues to attempt to destroy them. By using a settler text such as Alice to discuss Indigenous experiences and issues there is a destabilizing of our concepts of what makes a text Indigenous and flips the reader’s expectations. This encourages the reader to think about rewriting and cultural perspectives in new ways. What is particularly compelling about cultural perspectives with Sixkiller is the way that Francis even states that there are parallels and analogues of Indigenous culture and mythology, and how he is drawing on these similarities on purpose – allows for entry points of cultural appreciation for readers outside of the cultural group, and like my own experience with the Creek language in the text, opportunities to seek out information and to learn more about Indigenous culture in respectful ways. That isn’t to say that educating the not-indigenous reader is the intent of Sixkiller. It is not meant to educate people, but it does provide an opening of conversations to address Indigenous issues and topics.
As for the comics form assisting Indigenous acts of resistance, using a non-traditional form allows for a much smaller emphasis of the use of English language. Comics provide a space for unique and non-traditional styles of story telling creating opportunities to tell stories that do not have such a heavy or fraught connection to settler-colonialism. Narratives that rely on alternative ways of thinking and understanding in order to engage with and understand the texts, engender the ability to tell stories in a less euro-centric manner.
Francis and Alvitre’s Sixkiller is just an altogether fascinating comic book. It provides interesting opportunities to think about the way that indigenous texts can both be active and passive resistance in a settler-colonial society, and brings forth questions relating to how we think about indigenous literature and the forms that we receive it in. I will definitely keep thinking about these topics and questions as I continue working with Indigenous literature/comics, because even now I feel as though there are so many more ideas and questions that I want to explore and think about further.
If you’re interested I am including some likes for further reading on some of the topics I talked about in this post!
Thanks for reading!
The Comic? You can find and purchase the digital copy Here!
Want to read more Indigenous Comics? Or Perhaps scholarship about them? This annotated bibliography by Taylor Daigneault (Métis), Amy Mazowita, Candida Rifkind, and Camille Callison (Tahltan) is an incredibly useful and important resource! You can find it, Here
Ariel Baska put together a comprehensive list of Indigenous written and created comics, Here.
Indigenous Language Revival:
Want to learn more about efforts in Indigenous language revival and don’t know where to begin? Here are a few sources that are informative and are run by or have Indigenous folks involved in them.
The Native Languages of the Americas Website
The Canadian Encyclopedia is a great source to start looking more into specifically Canadian efforts in Indigenous language revitalization.
Language Revival Planning Program Grant


The Director of Library Services will supervise all administrative functions and operations of the library. These include technical services, public services, information literacy instruction, and collection development. The Director of Library Services formulates policy, prepares and executes budgets, provides strategic planning, and is a full faculty member.
The Theological Librarian will work in conjunction with the Director of Library Services in all administrative functions and operations of the library. These include technical services, public services, information literacy instruction, and collection development.
Join us March 5th - 7th for our Spring Preview Weekend. Preview Weekend is an excellent time to see what UGST has to offer. Get to know the people, place, and opportunities that are waiting for you here in Hazelwood Missouri. Click the link above to register now.
Join President David Bernard, Professor Steven Beardsley and guest Professor Jane DeRose Evans on a journey through ancient Asia Minor as you discover the world of the early church. The trip will be May 16-25, 2016 and deadline for registration is May 15, 2015. This trip is available to all seeking an unforgettable experience. Graduate credit is also available.
UGST congratulates Adjunct Professor Chris Paris on the release of his new book: Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible.
UGST welcomes our new Academic Dean, Dr. Steven Beardsley, our new Distance Learning Director, Vinessa D'Sa, and our joint Registrar with Urshan College, Dr. Jeanie Bland.


By John Underwood / [email protected]
ROBERTDALE, Alabama – As Robertsdale celebrates its centenary in 2021, three books written by a former columnist for a local newspaper are on sale.
âThe Robertsdale story has generated a lot of interest and we are happy to make the books available here,â said Mary Williams of the George P. Thames Adult Activity Center in Robertsdale.
Now 87, Jeanette Dyess Ryan, a native of Rosinton and a resident of the community of Elsanor just east of Robertsdale, a former columnist for Gulf Coast Media, has published her first book, “Pig Trails and Open Roads : Stories of Central Baldwin County “, in 2009.
The book includes many stories from the early days of Baldwin County, with a particular focus on Robertsdale and the surrounding area, including the town’s mayors over the years, local schools and churches.
His next two books are more personal stories, “Faces and Places That Live In My Heart,” which focuses on Ryan’s youth until his marriage to John Ryan, and “Dreams of a Farmer’s Wife,” which tells his story. life of a young wife. and mother and all her triumphs and trials, was released at age 78 in 2012.
âMom is so excited about the centenary and wants to be a part of the festivities,â said her daughter, Twila Unsderfer. âWe hope to be able to participate in some of the upcoming events. “
Meanwhile, signed copies of all three books are available for purchase at the Adult Activity Center, located on East Chicago Street in Robertsdale.
âFor a $ 15 cash donation, you can choose one of three books,â Williams said. Part of the sales will be donated to the Senior Center.
âWe just want to make sure people know the history of their area,â Unsderfer said, âand these books are a great look at life in its early days.â


“Witches catch the soul of the person,” said Abanga. “They hide the soul somewhere and wait to see what the family members say, their reaction. If the victim is very hard, difficult, or strong, the witch will talk to other witches to get a better view of the family—to see what the family members are… Continue reading Drinking the Water: Nankani Witchcraft and Ordeals
Tag: Cultural Psychodynamics
Of House or Bush: The Cultural Psychodynamics of Infanticide in Northern Ghana
My latest article was accepted for publication in Current Anthropology. It has been a long ten years in the making. Infanticide, Oedipus, projection, family conflict, scapegoats, and narcissistic injury--all the makings of a good drama. I'll be posting a link to it after some final edits. For now, the abstract (summing up the 12,000 word behemoth) and… Continue reading Of House or Bush: The Cultural Psychodynamics of Infanticide in Northern Ghana
An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Anthropology: Perspectives (2/2)
This is the second post (of two) on psychoanalytic anthropology. The previous post, which discussed background details, is located here. There is significant diversity in how anthropologists have engaged or adopted psychoanalytic methods and theory in their ethnographic research and writing. To summarize these perspectives, I grouped these approaches into four categories. While presented as… Continue reading An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Anthropology: Perspectives (2/2)
An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Anthropology: The Background (1/2)
There has always been a kinship between anthropology and psychoanalysis, however uneven, from Freud’s interest in anthropological data and his attempts to link the psyche with social forms, to more contemporary shared theorizations of the self and subjectivity in culturally diverse contexts. Psychoanalyst and anthropologist Elizabeth Bott-Spillius believed that while the content and expressions between… Continue reading An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Anthropology: The Background (1/2)
What is Cultural Psychodynamics?
I frequently refer to parts of my research and writing as working from a "cultural psychodynamic" perspective. What is this? In short, it is a theory and methodology that brings together perspectives from cultural phenomenology and psychoanalysis (culture + psyche). It emphasizes the complexity of cultural subjects and examines the ways in which culture and… Continue reading What is Cultural Psychodynamics?
Reflections on the 2016 Boyer Award
This was originally posted on the Society for Psychological Anthropology blog. In it, I summarize my award winning article. While most scholarly accounts of divination focus on its social functions, in A Psychodynamic Phenomenology of Nankani Interpretive Divination and the Formation of Meaning, I emphasize Nankani divination’s meaning-making features and explain how divination shapes people’s subjectivity… Continue reading Reflections on the 2016 Boyer Award


Most/Least Helpful Resources Survey Results
Based on the pre-retreat survey (Appendix F), the following tables summarize the resources women listed as being most and least helpful in their process of healing obesity. Table 2 consists of those items the co-researchers and researcher cited as most helpful to their healing process. Table 3 reports the least helpful resources in the co- researchers’ healing process. Both tables include the following information: (a) resource category, (b) the name of each resource (book, program, philosophy, author, etc.), (c) the number of women citing that resource, and (d) key comments made about that resource.
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So, you are planning to design your library by picking out some random bookshelves, tables, and chairs? But, are you sure that you are making the right choice for your students who use it? Modern libraries deserve library fitouts more than bookshelves that look like warehouse racking. It’s because library shelves do much more than merely holding books. It must be user-friendly, fun, attractive, and aesthetically pleasing that compels students to pick the books and explore them.
An excellent library design has several elements that create space to study and perform other educational activities. Here are a few things to consider while choosing school joinery.
Use a Mixture of Seating Options to Make the Space More Inviting
A library must include well-lit study spaces that contain soft, comfy seating arrangement that encourages them to read and relax at the same time. It should be easy for students to find out what they are looking for and must have large tables that make it easier for them to spread out books and paper. The furniture you use for the library must have multiple configurations to makes students comfortable and easy to move. You can also add some indoor plants, art pieces, and natural elements to make the space more inviting.
Separate Spaces for Work, Study and Other Educational Activities
The library area must be divided into separate spaces dedicated for large and small groups to study, read, work, and do other educational activities. These areas must allow people to come and work together on a project without disturbing others. So, the library fitouts used must be flexible to create the space you need and allow individuals to read, relax or groups to work together.
Install Technical Support Systems and Multimedia Creation Tools
The primary function of the library is to collect, organise, and deliver information to the users. Different techniques and technologies are available today to handle information quickly and effectively. So, install full technical support systems and media creation tools such as colour printers, video and recording capabilities, and design software if possible. Installing these tools ensures that the students can complete their work on time and make use of their time in the library effectively and productively.
In order to create a contemporary library space, install library or classroom fitouts and modern seating options that create different spaces for various activities to ensure maximum comfort.
At Deadline Commercial Projects, we design classroom and library fitouts that support flexibility, adaptability, and creativity. We design furniture and multi-storage facilities that inspire students in the school to read in a relaxed and well-lit area. The furniture we supply has flexible options that make it easier for students to get on with what they are supposed to be doing without disturbing anyone.


14. Juli 2022 18:00
Prof. Rüdiger Görner, PhD, MA, BA
Through the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley speaks what might be provocatively termed ‘poetic fundamentalism’. What is the qualifier for this judgement? It can be found in the very fact that his poetry addresses the fundamentals of art in language. Furthermore, it attempted a hitherto unheard-of radicalization of poetic speech in the English language. Shelley’s poetry offers a new foundation for poetry in English, if not a profoundly disturbing foundation myth of the modern poet. Amongst his fellow Romantics, Shelley comes across as a rebel and dissenter, dissatisfied with schematic explanations of phenomena and commonplace stereotypes of expression. Shelley’s intellectual restlessness became the irregular heartbeat for a revolutionized conception of poetry. It amounted to a poetic revolution with unmistakable political over- and undertones. The bi-centenary of Shelley’s death provides the occasion for this lecture that will discuss the implications of Shelley’s approach to writing as such.
Rüdiger Görner is Centenary Professor of German at Queen Mary University of London and Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations. He is the author of some forty academic and literary books. His most recent monograph was published by Reclam: Romantik – Ein europäisches Ereignis (2021). In the same year he published the novel The Marble Song with PalmArtPress (Berlin/New York). He is the recipient of numerous awards, incl. the Reimar Lüst Prize of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation.
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Can plastic be 'green'?
Conference: Design as Common Good, Swiss Design Network, Bern, Switzerland, March 2021
Using case studies of plastic chairs, this paper examines if product designers can successfully reduce the environmental impact of their work by embracing recent innovations in plastics. The 21st Century has seen growing interest, from both designers and manufacturers, in experimenting with alternatives to virgin fossil- based plastics, including recyclates and bioplastics. A simplified eco-audit tool has been developed to enable comparison of the environment impact of 32 chairs made from renewable carbon-based (‘green’) plastics. Preliminary findings suggest that designers experimenting with recycled materials are more likely to succeed in reducing the environmental impact of their work, compared with those working with bioplastics or natural fibres. Hybridisation is identified as a key common strategy among those working with ‘green’ plastics. This research is of particular interest for designers seeking to reduce our dependence on fossil-based plastics, supporting their central role in the systems-level change required to address the climate emergency.
Plastic chairs: Addressing the environmental emergency
Fusion Journal, July 2020
Geoff Isaac with original photography by Nic Bailey
Thames & Hudson, 2017
This is the first book to celebrate the life and work of Grant Featherston (1922-1995), the Melbourne-based industrial designer most well-known for his Contour chairs. This collection was designed and developed in the early 1950s and remains highly sought after by mid-century collectors in Australia and overseas.
Featherston, later joined by his second wife, Mary, designed hundreds of chairs over the next 30 years; however, this astonishing Australian industrial design partnership has gone largely uncelebrated until now. This monograph focuses on the chairs produced between 1947 and 1975 and presents a new biography of the designer, drawn from archival research and interviews with his peers. It is extensively illustrated with over 250 beautiful photographs and includes a selection from the previously unpublished personal achieve of Ian Howard, the former Managing Director of Melbourne-based manufacturer Aristoc (with whom Grant worked for 13 years).


Whenever the Japanese Grand Prix comes around each year it is inevitable that the nostalgic among us remember that famous race in 1976 when James Hunt clinched his one and only Formula 1 World Championship, while his final victory was also in the country.
The title was decided on a rain soaked and high-drama packed afternoon at Fuji Raceway...
At the time, James had been part of the Formula 1 landscape since 1973, first with Hesketh until 1975 and then as a last minute signing for McLaren for 1976.
It turned out the be the year in which the driver once known as 'Hunt-The-Shunt' became the king of motorsport, claiming the title at the final race, on a treacherous circuit, after one of the most tumultuous seasons in the history of the sport where he faced off against his nemesis and, ultimately, friend Niki Lauda.
Hunt-versus-Lauda was the story of the 1976 season and is immortalised in the well told, award-winning film entitled: Rush.
Volumes can and have been written about the season in which Niki nearly lost his life in that fiery accident at the Nurburgring; what followed was a remarkable comeback from receiving his last-rites to six weeks later racing at Monza. Images of the great Austrian in a blood-soaked balaclava are etched in every F1 fan’s mind.
Niki arrived at the season finale, the Japanese Grand Prix, leading James by three points but, to cut an epic story short, race day was marred by torrential rain.
In a nutshell, and doing no justice to the episode, by the time the dust had settled – or the rain had stopped – James had done enough to claim the title, nabbing it from Niki that afternoon when the Ferrari driver decided to pull iunto the pits because of the conditions while the McLaren driver stayed out to finish third. Britain had a new World Champion.
What might have been Lauda’s year instead became The Year of James Hunt, a fact that the defeated driver never lamented or resented, in fact he celebrated it long after the fact. In the end, Niki’s biggest victory was living after that horrid afternoon at Nurburgring.
Thus James joined the greats of the sport but, perhaps far more than most of his peers, the dashing Englishman and his rivalry with the Austrian perfectionist captured the imagination of an audience way beyond what the sport ever enjoyed.
The high-drama Hunt-versus-Lauda story thrust F1 on to a global stage, a mass market at a time of the boom in live sport ontelevision. They became the first superstars, theirs the first popular legend.
That contest triggered the rapid rise of F1 as one of the most-watched sports in the world, whose drivers have become among the most famous sportsmen on the planet. James among them.
The 1976 Japanese Grand Prix was the first ever held in the country, with Fuji Speedway the venue also in 1977 in which James won the race, which also happened to be his last of ten Grand Prix victories.
Although James lost out on pole-position to Lotus driver Mario Andretti, but in the race the McLaren driver made a good start to take the lead, where he remained unchallenged to the end. He crossed the line over a minute ahead of his closest rival. It was an emphatic win, but fate had it that it was also to be his last.
Thereafter Japan slipped off the calendar for a decade before returning in 1987 with Suzuka hosting the race since then, but each year remembering the legacy James had in the country is inevitable.


The Kintsugi Kid introduces young readers to Pearl, a beautiful ballerina whose habit of twirling ends in a crash that leaves her feeling broken and discouraged. Pearl wonders if the brokenness can ever be repaired and is introduced to the Japanese practice of kintsugi.
Through Pearl’s journey of re-discovery, Allison strives to teach children important lessons about strength, resilience, confidence, and, ultimately, self-love, that will shape the way they face their own trials and tribulations for years to come.
meet the author
Allison Mathis Jones is the author of The Kintsugi Kid and is also a “kintsugi kid” herself.
Health and wellness are important to the University of Miami graduate who has a background in mental health and a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. After recovering from a brain tumor removal, Allison became intrigued by the parallel of the Japanese art-form kintsugi and its process of repairing broken objects with gold lacquer.
She feels deeply that this art-form relates to her own unintentional brokenness and healing experience. Allison holds the belief that all people have little gold filled cracks with shimmering traces that tell unique stories of resilience and renewal.
My interpretation of kintsugi is that items are made more beautiful because of their cracks, not in spite of them, and I feel that this is something that can be applied to people as well. Like broken pottery put back together with gold, we are made whole again in spite of our trials and tribulations and are more beautiful and unique having been broken.
This is especially true for children who are often shaped by their childhood experiences. I think it’s important that we teach them from a young age to honor and celebrate the things that make them unique.
The Kintsugi Kid has been used by mental health experts and schools to help children heal.
Use The Kintsugi Kid in your practice or classroom today!
Allison is happy to send a complimentary copy of her book and visit your school for live author readings, age-appropriate mental health workshops, and kintsugi craft workshops. Email us today for more information:


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I am a lifelong anxiety sufferer who drank mainly to cope with uncomfortable feelings. No matter how I may have dressed up my dependence on alcohol, the bottom line was that I used it , starting in my late 40’s, to medicate my sometimes crippling anxiety.
- For as prevalent as drinking is, there is really only one acceptable way to get help – admit you’re an alcoholic and abstain forever.
- Stories heal, and no circle knows that more than the recovery circle.
- This book switched a floodlight on for me in terms of understanding the massive impact trauma had on my life, and it gave me so much hope and tools to drive recovery to health and peace.
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- I recommend it for everyone who struggles with anxiety and/or addiction of any kind.
- She relied on alcohol, so now that this is no longer an option she has to re-evaluate everything in her life, which leads to some great and very witty observations on her newfound life.
For friends or family of a recovering addict, the many great books about recovery offer you some insights into what a recovering addict will experience throughout the process and how you can help foster recovery. I had to read this book in small doses because it was so intense. Bessel writes about trauma with great compassion and empathy. Through reading this book I came to better understand myself, sober living blog my body’s physical reactions, and my mental health. It’s a tough book to read due to the descriptions of horrific traumas people have experienced, however it’s inspirational in its message of hope. Van der Kolk describes our inner resilience to manage the worst of life’s circumstances with our innate survival instinct. We can survive and even thrive despite the traumas we have endured.
Books about sobriety
Choosing Therapy may be compensated for referrals by the companies mentioned below. Twelve-step programs are popular for a reason – for many, they work. This book works as a great supplement to a twelve-step program and provides better understanding of the psychotherapy behind the steps. Author Veronica Valli is an addiction therapist and recovered alcoholic herself, offering a deep and sincere understanding of an alcoholic’s journey.
- Until I read this book, I felt a combination of broken and hopeless.
- As I read the book, rather than imagining the possibility of what Marc was describing, I recognized my experience in his words.
- This book provides an amazing framework for embracing our true selves in a society that tries to tell us we’re not already whole as we are.
- Clare Pooley intertwines personal victories, research, and answers to FAQs about quitting alcohol in her memoir, The Sober Diaries.
Both books helped change my whole mindset about drinking alcohol, which I had always considered luxurious, well-deserved self-care. Dr. Harry is a physician at the Betty Ford clinic in the United States, a recovered alcoholic, and a long-term member of AA. His focus is traditional disease theory and 12 step recovery, which is not my cup of tea, but this book was was an important read for me in my first month sober.
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
This is a great option for clients that are in need of continued treatment, but are returning home to be with their families during this time. If you find yourself struggling with time to get much reading in, but still want to get the main takeaways of these important books, I recommend Blinkist. It’s an app that does a surprisingly good job of stripping nonfiction books down to their nitty-gritty while managing to capture the tone and style of the overall book. This is a memoir by Augusten Burroughs of Running With Scissors fame. I cracked up laughing as many times as I nodded my head in knowing, alcoholic agreement. The basic premise of this book is that she is letting us peek into her diary during her first year of sobriety. This book is beautiful, informative, and inspiring for anyone who is trying to change their relationship with alcohol.
SGS is not a recovery programme, we are peer support and offer content, online community, merch and The Sober Girl Society Handbook. Education is just the first step on our path to improved mental health and emotional wellness. To help our readers take the next step in their journey, Choosing Therapy has partnered with leaders in mental health and wellness.
Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love
Provides a personal look into the connection between incarceration, substance use, and trauma. Her story is a beautiful reminder of how safety and support can lead the way to incredible healing. Is a beautifully written series of personal essays that describe Brian Broome’s experience growing up Black and queer in Ohio, and the effect early substance use had on his upbringing. This book tells an incredible story of not only recovery, https://ecosoberhouse.com/ but also how it connects to race and sexual identity. Sarah’s writing is sharp and relatable; a more recent, modern voice in the recovery space. So many of us look at “blacking out” as benign, or normal—an indicator of a “successful” night of drinking. In Blackout, Sarah clearly explains why there’s nothing benign about it and describes what is actually happening to the brain when we reach that point of alcohol-induced amnesia.
Most of these books are a combination of addiction/recovery biography, science, and sociology. The “How to Stop Drinking” self-help style books and books on science, psychology, and sociology are often written by people who overcame problems with addiction. Some are traditional and focus on the disease theory and alcoholism, but most are more likely to suggest alternatives to AA. This is the book for you if you’re looking for masterful prose. It is also the book for you if you consider faith to be a necessary piece for the puzzle that addiction recovery entails.
Sober Curious? Living Alcohol Free? You’ll drink up these quit-lit reads
Romily, one of the main characters in the book is without doubt a full blown alcoholic. I read Lucy’s book back in 2015 when I was struggling to stop drinking.


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Hello friendos. It’s the beginning of June, which means my last round of bi-monthly goals has come to an end. Let’s see how we did! Make sure you check out my original post for more details on this round of goals.
To read piles are a fluid, ever changing thing. New, exciting books come out, pushing the books you’ve been meaning to read for ages farther and farther down the list. I’ve made a point this March to get a good mix of books I’ve had forever and need to read, books I’ve borrowed from the library, fiction and nonfiction, different types of writers (different nationalities, women, etc), and world literature rather than sticking with the my go-to American/UK types.