@AgatheBleibtDaheim Tak i lige måde

@dutypo Morgen

Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you kindly.

@geekysteven Her bow-terfly is lovely. Such elegant colours.

@kcoyle Those are the rules we're avoiding by using Author First Name - much less thinking required!

@Infrapink

@arratoon Haha - nice. Screwy decimal indeed. I shall be borrowing that!

@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.

@anderslund @bettina @murena Seconded! Var lige på vej til at sige det samme.

@datenhalde And I bet her pizza slices are excellently cut too. Good for her. Trailblazing in the kitchen.

@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.

@coolcalmcollected So many ingredients that are so much easier to chop this way!

@fgraver

"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.

@fgraver Agreed.

@nieuemma I only joined the Fediverse in 2022, but that's still long enough and enough reply threads ago for me to know that I will not be sharing a list of Ingredients I Chop With Scissors Instead of A Knife with the Fediverse

@fgraver This is why wondering 'Is literary fiction a separate category?' is annoying, frustrating and entertaining, all at the same time. And unanswerable. I can't define LitFic, but I know it when I read it. And I also know that Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are not regarded as LitFic and I think they should be. The wisdom and insight and social advocacy in among all the laugh-aloud lines - a Nobel Prize-worth of literature in his body of work.

@kimlockhartga You probably know the Height system so instinctively well now that switching some to By Author might just make them harder to find. Your system is a sensible, functional system.

@fgraver

"And they are all Literary Fiction, seeing as they are all fiction. And literature."

Ok now you're just openly trolling me.

@kasperd Hahaha that took me a second, then made me laugh literally out loud. Now I really really really want this to be @kimlockhartga's actual system. Looking up every writer's height on Wikipedia before shelving their book.

@CarstenBoll

"Tænk på, at der er gået 100.000 års omtanke ind I den lille krumme kniv, fx, og de ting lige præcis den er god til. Er da næsten respektløst overfor ens forfædre at ignorere det"

Oh no that's a great point. Det er lige ved, at jeg bliver nødt til at genoverveje. Eller i det mindste at vise en smule mere forståelse for Gourmet Kokkens synspunkt.

@fgraver Now I'm the one staring at this toot with a thousand-yard stare. Genre would traumatise me. So many books with mixed genres, or no clear genre, that would require decision-making. I would have to think, and I don't like thinking if I can avoid it. And now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight because this has reignited the trauma of a discussion I once had about whether Literary Fiction is its own genre or not. Never resolved.