Facemasks on for a trip to the Bluestocking

[CaraDuneRedux]

We haven't had a Bluestocking thread for fucking ages.

Anyone fancy a socially distanced, tables of no more than 6, Bluestocking?

The goat has been covid tested and the patriarchy busting canon polished up to remove all possible virus traces from its surface.

Remember, MN spans the globe, and it's always before the 10pm curfew somewhere.

Oh tyro, I just downloaded the latest strike yesterday, it's so warm and yummy !

Tyro, promise I am not stalking , I think we just ended up running the same direction

I'm cool with being stalked to talk about books so all good

Still on the fourth one at the moment, hoping to hold out for paperback for the fifth, otherwise it's really obvious looking at the bookcase what date I started a series (a few weeks ago in this case).

I'm am e-reader myself. Couldn't afford a big enough house to have a library, read quite a bit and very bad at discarding books ( I lent my copy of the crow road to someone once and never got it back.traumatised to this day )

Plus you can blow up the text when my eyes get tired ( I am falling to bits really )

Never got on with ebooks. I think possibly because I was heavily into fanfiction before they were around. My brain's been programmed by this to view hard copy fiction differently to screens. And to automatically notice the errors on screens where I'll overlook them in print.

Besides, you can't use an ereader for extra wall insulation.

Plus I'm blind as the proverbial, but I can navigate by colour splodges with my glasses off. I'd be crashing into everything without the bookcases.

Not enough room for them all though. I have vague plans to annexe next door...

I still have the rammed bookcases....

For that I am thankful, midge. My bookcases are like a second skin, developed over a lifetime. The idea that some people get rid of them when they switch to ereaders makes me

But then you would lose the books? I doubt the house foundations would stand the weight of my ebooks if they were physical, I found that I read much more because it was so easy to get more without the evidence showing !

Is there a bibliophile's version of crossing oneself? Because I feel the need for one when words like "lose the books" are being thrown around willy-nilly.

Actually, tangentially related to other threads: can my true inner authentic self be "librarian"? Because I always wanted to be the old-fashioned slightly scary cardigan-wearing sort when I grew up, but then I grew up and librarianing has changed dramatically.

I wanted to be an author

Author-stereotype, hmm. In my head that means you get to pontificate while wearing a silly hat and/or smoking a pipe, or else be a billionaire philanthropist beloved of milions.

I've changed my mind. I want to identify as a genderfluid author. I would make an awesome pontificating billionaire.

If you've not come across the concept of L-space and the Discworld's Librarian .... you're clearly a few books short.

Oook!

Big, ginger, fond of bananas, hangs out in an old dressing gown, a single specific trigger causes an excessive explosion of aggression, lives in a book cave and is endlessly frustrated by idiotic blokes.

I've been identifying with the Librarian for twenty years. I even have a pet weedy bloke to do the shitwork!

A large Malbec please!!!

Grim out there tonight, is it?

The Ginger wine was fab 《hic》 but I think I can nanage a Malbec...
But us it a ladylike drink?

Manage! Is nanage what a nan does?

Large glass of anything please.

I read on kindle as I can’t afford to but real books and read a lot

Can read in dark when snorer is sleeping.

Can I get snacks pls. Crisps would be awesome. But not smoky bacon

Popping in to ask a question.
There is a very disturbing and enlightening article about "the boy who disappeared" on Glinner's site. Are we allowed to post that or not? I feel like I have no idea what can be posted or not after being deleted when I wrote about other people calling JKR a t*rf.

Would be discussing a particular person...should be possible, in the real world, else madness ensues. This is like the Savile horror all over again, no-one spoke up and because of that it was allowed to happen for years...so I say go for it

Grim out there tonight, is it?

So very very grim.

DH has tried to recreate Bath Olivers, though, and just tasted one with blue cheese. Excellent, especially with Malbec. ta.

Sounds good.
My DH has just cooked teriyaki-marinaded fillet steak which was incredibly good.

Gincheers!