My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife.
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"If there’s a mystery of any sort and a protagonist attempting to solve said mystery, it’s crime."
That's a great example of the kind of genre-categorising I've never been good at. Even when I'm browsing the library online, I dont have an instinct for Thriller contra Mystery contra Crime.
@CiaraNi I tend to blend all 3… (Don’t tell anyone).
I think my reading needs are simple, though. What I want is for literature to give me some insight into the lives of people unlike myself, preferably in settings I don’t recognise.
That’s why I tend to avoid middle-aged, white men writing «samtidsliteratur».
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My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. I assume it’s just their pride that’s traumatised, because they didn’t think of being this efficient themselves, and them an expert.
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@CiaraNi I tend to blend all 3… (Don’t tell anyone).
I think my reading needs are simple, though. What I want is for literature to give me some insight into the lives of people unlike myself, preferably in settings I don’t recognise.
That’s why I tend to avoid middle-aged, white men writing «samtidsliteratur».
@fgraver I'm after the same thing. Worldwide literature, worldwide fiction, by authors diverse in age and genre and gender - books as a window, not a mirror.
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@datenhalde And I bet her pizza slices are excellently cut too. Good for her. Trailblazing in the kitchen.
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@fgraver I'm after the same thing. Worldwide literature, worldwide fiction, by authors diverse in age and genre and gender - books as a window, not a mirror.
@CiaraNi Agreed!
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It’s the same kind of stare my friend the librarian gets when she’s reminded that I alphabetise my books by first name.
@CiaraNi Oh, cool, I thought I was the only person who does that.
How would the librarian alphabetise books by Icelandic, Ethiopian, or Arabian authors? How about Tibetans and Indonesians who don't hvae surnames at all?
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It’s the same kind of stare my friend the librarian gets when she’s reminded that I alphabetise my books by first name.
@CiaraNi That is screwy decimal!
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@CiaraNi Oh, cool, I thought I was the only person who does that.
How would the librarian alphabetise books by Icelandic, Ethiopian, or Arabian authors? How about Tibetans and Indonesians who don't hvae surnames at all?
@Infrapink Ah! Delighted to learn it's not just me. I like avoiding exactly those kind of questions, having to work out where, say, the Icelandic authors are, etc.
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@CiaraNi That is screwy decimal!
@arratoon Haha - nice. Screwy decimal indeed. I shall be borrowing that!
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@arratoon Haha - nice. Screwy decimal indeed. I shall be borrowing that!
@CiaraNi I think I used to follow someone on Twitt*r with that name. An American writer, IIRC.
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@CiaraNi Oh, cool, I thought I was the only person who does that.
How would the librarian alphabetise books by Icelandic, Ethiopian, or Arabian authors? How about Tibetans and Indonesians who don't hvae surnames at all?
@Infrapink @CiaraNi There are library rules for all of those languages - deep, detailed, discussed rules. E.g. Icelandic authors are alphabetized by their first names as they have no family name. The harder languages are the ideographic - e.g. Chinese. The filing rules for those are specific to each language or language group.
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@Infrapink @CiaraNi There are library rules for all of those languages - deep, detailed, discussed rules. E.g. Icelandic authors are alphabetized by their first names as they have no family name. The harder languages are the ideographic - e.g. Chinese. The filing rules for those are specific to each language or language group.
@kcoyle Those are the rules we're avoiding by using Author First Name - much less thinking required!
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My friend the gourmet cook gets a thousand-yard stare when they see me chopping certain ingredients with a scissors instead of a knife. I assume it’s just their pride that’s traumatised, because they didn’t think of being this efficient themselves, and them an expert.
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@Eg0nJN @MThaastrup Det gør livet og samlingen spændende, sikkert. Så falder man nok over en titel, man har glemt, når man er på skattejagt efter noget andet.
@CiaraNi
Det bekræfter min overbevisning, at dem der holder orden er bare for dovne til at lede efter tingene!
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@CiaraNi
Det bekræfter min overbevisning, at dem der holder orden er bare for dovne til at lede efter tingene!
@Eg0nJN @MThaastrup@toooobeeee @CiaraNi @MThaastrup kun tåber rydder op. Genier behersker kaos.
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