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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@CiaraNi I definitely agree about Pratchett’s Discworld novels. And that’s a prime example of why I refuse to listen to the gate keepers.
@fgraver Agreed.
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@CiaraNi Also, I think my genres are very easy to sort. I look at the following things in this order:
If a novel has elements of non-existant technology, is set in the future, or has magic or other fantastical elements, it’s SF&F (Margaret Atwood, I’m looking at you!).
If there’s a mystery of any sort and a protagonist attempting to solve said mystery, it’s crime.
Anything else is other fiction.
"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.
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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.
the day it occurred to me to use scissors for cutting up food was the best day of my life
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the day it occurred to me to use scissors for cutting up food was the best day of my life
@coolcalmcollected So many ingredients that are so much easier to chop this way!
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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!
@Eg0nJN @MThaastrup -
@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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