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ProEarth AntiRacist (she/her)
Mostly harmless, mostly Dutch toots

Leest veel, schrijft een beetje
Werkt in het onderwijs
Vrijwilligt bij de bieb
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Pleit voor de vrijheid van meningsuitstel
Vindt ook wel eens iets, vooral na lang zoeken
Probeert het goede te zien en te doen
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'Change itself was changing.'

22/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†

Why this book is very much worth your while:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5049434139

@boeken @bookstodon

fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'I must now return to my story with some haste, before another foolish white woman might think to seize it with the purpose of belching out some nonsensical tale on my behalf.'
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 21/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Recommended reading: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5857637470

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Lezen #Read #Leestip #Mustread

fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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โ€˜Why were we talking like this?!โ€™
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 19/52 โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†

Did not finish - I just couldn't find the patience to find the story amidst all the fragments.

#Boeken @boeken #Lezen #Read
#Bookstodon @bookstodon

fifischwarz,
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@kimlockhartga
Thanks for this. It feels a bit harsh to rate a book so badly, but if a book doesn't work for a reader, then so be it. I guess it didn't help that I did not have the faintest idea who the author was ๐Ÿซฃ
Your description is pretty much spot on, I think. Too many books to read (I saw your 1,000 recommendations - very glad to have already read some) ๐Ÿ˜ to continue in one that's mostly annoying.
@boeken @bookstodon

fifischwarz,
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@pascaline
It definitely sounds like you made the right choice to quit reading that one. I too have gotten rid of books that I felt were not all that. My shelves are like trophy cases: there's only room for what is absolutely worthwhile (ok, for those and for my tsundoku - of which I don't know yet, but hope, I will like them ๐Ÿ˜Š )
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fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'Het leren van de leerkrachten gaat vooraf aan het leren van de leerlingen.โ€™
#DeZinVanHetBoek

#BoekPerWeek 18/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

#Boeken @boeken #Lezen #Onderwijs #Professionalisering

fifischwarz, to mathematics Dutch
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"The only shame is in humanity's unquenchable desire to destroy itself."
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 17/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

An amazing story, see my review :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6444761998

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Lezen #Read #Fractals #Mathematics #Mustread #Leestip

fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'De geschiedenis wordt geschreven door de winnaars, Jaguarman. Misschien moeten we daaraan toevoegen: de toekomst wordt bepaald door de mensen wiens verhalen wij geloven.'

16/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Wat een prachtige zoektocht. Of liever vindtocht. Leerzaam en mooi. Zeer warm aanbevolen.

@boeken

fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'Alles goed en wel, maar mien vrouw is nog steeds een koei.'

15/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

Jeugdsentiment:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6444672665

@boeken

fifischwarz,
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@ginkka
Inderdaad, en zeker leuk om weer eens te herlezen. Heb je nog een exemplaar staan?
@boeken

fifischwarz,
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@ginkka
Maar in ieder geval nog wel ergens bewaard gebleven dus
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fifischwarz, to scifi Dutch
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'welcome comfort, for without it, you cannot stay strong

14/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†

Here's why I recommend this delightful story:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5148124894

@boeken
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fifischwarz,
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De zin van dit boek slaat op de term crown shyness uit de titel.
https://www.pelckmans.net/nl/blog/ook-bomen-doen-aan-social-distancing/details

In Chambers' woorden: 'somehow, in the absence of contact, they knew exactly where to stop growing outward so that they might give their neighbors space to thrive.'
Waren mensen maar meer als bomen.

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fifischwarz,
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fifischwarz,
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@AnthonyBaker
Me too! Did you read the Wayfarer series as well? Also very highly recommended!
@boeken @bookstodon @DanMorgan

fifischwarz,
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@AnthonyBaker
In that case: happy reading!
Even though I have already read these, I am a bit jealous of you: you're going to experience that wonderful feeling of being blown away by an excellent book for the first time. And that four times in a row!๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ

(It's always a bit tricky to say something like that - different folks have different tastes. But somehow I think you will agree. Still, do let us know what you think, ok?)

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fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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โ€˜Want in zijn binnenste immers hebben geesten, minstens geestjes, zich genesteld, die bewerkstelligen dat voor de verzamelaar, ik versta daaronder de echte, de verzamelaar zoals hij moet zijn, het bezit de meest innige relatie is die men tot de dingen maar hebben kan: niet dat zij in hem tot leven komen, hijzelf is het die in hen woont.โ€™
13/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†

Uit: 'Ik pak mijn bibliotheek uit'

@boeken

fifischwarz,
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'Ik pak mijn bibliotheek uit' was de reden dat ik deze bundel ging lezen. En dat is weer omdat Walter Benjamin en de bibliotheek een grote rol speelden in The Book of Form and Emptiness, wat ik een erg mooi verhaal vond (dat is zeker een aanrader!).

De andere stukken in de bundel konden me niet echt boeien, maar dit kon ik des te meer waarderen.
Misschien omdat ik zelf verzot ben op bibliotheken en lange tijd verzamelaar was (en misschien nog steeds ben, zij het minder actief)

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fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'Het proces tussen ons is gestopt.'

12/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†

Overtuigende personages, boeiende verhaallijnen. Heerlijk young adult verhaal.

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fifischwarz, to random Dutch
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Even dapper zijn. Aan het eind van de dag ligt de wind, en dan heb ik in de bioscoop een film van Jacques Tati gezien!! Tati! In de bioscoop! Verheugings ๐Ÿ˜ ๐ŸŽž๏ธ ๐Ÿฟ
Mooie dag jelui!

Gif animatie van fietser die tegen de wind in fietst (en niet vooruit lijkt te komen)

fifischwarz, to boeken Dutch
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'Will life always be like this?'
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 11/52 โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

Though written as a fictional play sixty years ago, this could easily be a realistic account today. Considering the matter at hand, that thought is sickening. In spite of that - or precisely because of that - this is a very important read.

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Lezen #Read #JamesBaldwin

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๐Ÿ˜ณ Artist: in City: Magelhaenlaan, Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ 12/04/2024 (sorry, only for 1 day) - Title: untitled - ! โ˜•

fifischwarz,
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@AmiW
Another favorite! ๐Ÿ˜

Why only for one day?

fifischwarz,
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@AmiW

I didn't know these were temporary Works. What a pity.
I love his book murals as well

AmiW, to art German
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โ‡๏ธ Artist: in City: USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 04/2024 - Title:
๐Ÿ”ด "Sasha is having a bad tail day."
๐ŸŸก "Sasha hat einen BadHair... ร„hm...
Bad-Schwanz-Tag." ๐Ÿฟ๏ธ

fifischwarz,
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@AmiW

Though I admit that I adore David Zinns delightful chalk art, that is certainly not the only reason I follow you. Thanks to you I have a whole bunch of new favorite artists. Speaking of whom: I haven't seen anything by Seth and Ememem in a while?
Either way, everything you share is worth taking a look at! ๐Ÿคฉ

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Okay, @bookstodon I have the full list of comps (If you liked this book, you may also like this other book). It's very very long, so I alphabetized the first books in each pairing, if that helps at all. Without further adieu: BOOK THREAD

1000 Best Books to Read Before You Die // Read This Next // The Western Lit Survival Kit
11/22/63 // Fatherland
The 1619 Project // Four Hundred Souls
1984 // Julia
1Q84 // The Bone Clocks
After Annie // Swim Home to the Vanished
Aftershocks (Kloos) // Nova (Delany)
The Alice Network // The Lost Girls of Paris
All Our Wrong Todays // Bridge (Beukes)
All The Birds in the Sky // Midnight Robber
All The Light We Cannot See // The Paris Library
All The Names They Used for God // New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
American Delirium // The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
American Gods // Sorrowland
American Prometheus // The Cassandra (Shields)
Annihilation // Roadside Picnic
Apeirogon // Immortals of Tehran
Appleseed (Bell) // The Red Garden
Ariadne // Clytemnestra
Ascension (Binge) // High Crimes (GN) Sebala
At Night All Blood is Black // Hangman (Binyam)
Awayland // The Summer People
Babel // The Starless Sea
Bad Cree // Crooked Hallelujah
The Ballad of Perilous Graves // The Black Godโ€™s Drums
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World // And at my Back I Always Hear
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance // Other Birds
The Beauty of Your Face // The Topeka School
The Beekeeper of Aleppo // The Wrong End of the Telescope
Before We Were Yours // The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Best of Me (Sedaris) // The Fun Parts
The Binding // The Kingdoms
Bird by Bird // How Not to Write a Novel
Birds of America // Your Duck is my Duck
Black River Orchard // Red Rabbit (Grecian)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman // Kaleidoscope (Selznick)
Bliss Montage // Gods of Want
The Bloody Chamber // Red as Blood
The Body is Not an Apology // Full of Myself (GN)
The Bone People // The Whale Rider
The Book of Fire // Harrow (Williams)
The Book of Lost Names // The Book of Lost Friends
Book of Night // Hex Life (Golden)
The Book Thief // The Librarian of Auschwitz
Broken (Lawson) // Solutions and Other Problems
The Broken Earth Trilogy (Jemisin) // The Earthsinger Chronicles (L. Penelope)
Caste // Read Until You Understand
Catโ€™s Cradle // The Crying of Lot 49
A Certain Hunger // Tender is the Flesh
A Childrenโ€™s Bible // How High We Go in the Dark
Chouette // Blue Hour // Reproduction
Cloud Atlas // Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena // Magenta (Foden)
Crow Mary // James (Everett)
Cuyahoga // Attack of the 50 ft. Indian
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed // Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth
Dark Matter (Crouch) // The Space Between Worlds
David Copperfield // Demon Copperhead
The Days of Afrekete // In the not Quite Dark
Deacon King Kong // Black Bottom Saints
Dead-end Memories // Things That Fall From the Sky
Dear Edward // The Book of Two Ways
Dear Life (Munro) // The Relive Box
Death Valley // Where Echoes Die
Detransition, Baby // Manhunt
Dinosaurs (Millet) // I Love You, But Iโ€™ve Chosen Darkness
Dinosaurs on Other Planets // Reptile House
Disappearing Earth // Hold The Dark
A Discovery of Witches // Middlegame
The Dog Stars // A Beginning at the End
The Dovekeepers // To The Edge of Sorrow
Dr. No (Everett) // American Mermaid
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead // Remnant Population
Drowning Practice // Flood (The Reset #1) Greene
The Dutch House // The House of the Spirits
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You // This Wicked Tongue
The Echo Wife // The Ones We Choose
The Employees // Genesis (Beckett)
The End of Men // The Men
Everything I Never Told You // All Thatโ€™s Left Unsaid
Exhalation // Memory Wall
Far Out (Guran) // Love After The End (Whitehead)
The Fell (Moss) // Burntcoat (Hall)
The Fervor // Hex (Knight)
Fever Dream // The Ones That Got Away
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America // Baking with Kafka
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of The Whole Stupid World // OMFG, BEES!
Filthy Animals // A Minor Chorus
Fingersmith // Once Upon a River
Florida (Groff) // Ghost Summer (Due)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars // The Yellow Bird Sings
The Foretelling // The Steerswomanโ€™s Road
Four Treasures of the Sky // Straw Dogs of the Universe
The Four Winds // The Past is Never
The Fox Wife // The Fox Maidens (GN) // Ninetails (Mao)
A Gentleman in Moscow // The Diamond Eye
Get in Trouble // Windeye
The Ghost Bride // The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Gingerbread // The Book of X
A Girl is a Body of Water // Shallow Waters
The Girl With the Louding Voice // The Dragonfly Sea
The Glass Hotel // It Came From Del Rio
Gnomon // ZED
Going Zero // We Are Satellites
The Goldfinch // Rules of Civility
Goliath (Onyebuchi) // Thrust (Yuknavitch)
The Great Gatsby // The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All // Pity the Beast
The Great Reclamation // Okinawa (GN) Higa
The Great Transition // Sucker (Hornsby)
The Guns of the South // The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Hamlet // The King of Infinite Space
Hao: Stories // Skinship (Stories)
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World // Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
The Harpy // The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman
Heaven (Kawakami) // Bloomland
Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) // The Indian Lake Trilogy (SGJones)
The Henna Artist // A Burning
Her Body and Other Parties // Delicate Edible Birds
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever // Meet Me in the Future
The Hero of This Book // Delphi
A History of Burning // Beyond the Door of No Return
A History of Wild Places // Dead Eleven
The Hitchhikerโ€™s Guide to the Galaxy // The Grand Scheme of Things (Strang)
Homeland Elegies // Radiant Fugitives
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Clark and Division
A House Between the Earth and the Moon // The Future
House of Leaves // We Spread
How Can I Help You // Sing Her Down
How Long โ€˜til Black Future Month? // Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Hummingbird Salamander // Blue Skies (TCBoyle)
The Huntress (Quinn) // The Wind Knows my Name
Hurricane Girl // The Last Animal
Hyperbole & a Half // Barely Functional Adult (GN)
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears // The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
I Hope This Finds You Well (Baer) // Dark Testament (Smith)
If I Survive You // How to Learn Jamaican
Illuminations (Moore) // Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
In The Dream House // [EXTREME CONTENT WARNING]: A Blue Sky
The Invention of Wings // The Yellow Wife
Jackal // My Monticello
Jacobโ€™s Ladder // Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Jesusโ€™ Son // Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Joan is Okay // Edge Case
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 // Flowers of Fire
Kindred // The Sweetness of Water
The Kite Runner (GN) // Yazidi! (GN)
Lady Tanโ€™s Circle of Women // The Night Tiger
Land of Milk and Honey // In The Quick
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century // Tomb Sweeping
Libertie // Wake (GN)
The Library at Mount Char // The Gone World (Sweterlisch)
Lies my Teacher Told Me // Stamped From the Beginning
The Light Pirate // Lark Ascending
Lighter Than my Shadow // Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Like Life // Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
little gods // The God Child
A Long Petal of the Sea // Last Evenings on Earth
Lore // Olympus, Texas
The Lost Man // The Last Word
A Lush and Seething Hell // Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell
Luster // Speaking of Summer
Magic Hour // The Water Keeper (Martin)
Marguerite (Kemp) // Flowers of Darkness
The Mars House // The Olympus Project
The Mars Room // Chain-gang All-stars
Matrix (Groff) // The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Me Talk Pretty One Day // Assassination Vacation
The Measure // The Wishing Game
The Memory Police // You Feel it Just Below the Ribs
The Memory Theater // Adjacentland // At The End of the World
The Metamorphosis // The Bonus Room
Mexican Gothic // Just Like Home (Gailey)
The Midnight Library // The Other You (JCOates)
A Midsummer Nightโ€™s Dream // Shakespeare for Squirrels
Milk Fed // Written on the Body
The Minority Report // Veracity (Bynum)
The Mountains Sing // The Best We Could Do (GN)
Mouthful of Birds // We Show What We Have Learned
A Moveable Feast // The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Munich (Harris) // The Torqued Man
The Murmur of Bees // The Hummingbirdโ€™s Daughter
Music for Wartime // What Becomes
My Government Means to Kill Me // Manywhere
The Nature of Fragile Things // Vera (Edgarian)
Neverwhere // Slade House
The Nickel Boys // Home (Morrison)
The Night Circus // Caraval
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird // Song for the Unraveling of the World
Ninth House // The Book of Love (Link)
No One Left to Come Looking for You // Brooklyn: A Crime Novel
Normal Rules Donโ€™t Apply // The Rock Eaters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane // The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Office of Historical Corrections // Heads of the Colored People
Old Babes in the Wood // Wednesdayโ€™s Child
Old Godโ€™s Time // Distant Sons (Johnston)
On Earth as it is on Television // Ripe (Hider)
Only The Beautiful // The Foundling
The Only Good Indians // The Removed
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done // Away! Away!
Oona Out of Order // The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Open Throat // What We Feed to the Manticore
Orange World // Whatโ€™s Yours is not Yours
Oranges Are not the Only Fruit // Mostly Dead Things
Organ Meats // Dazzling (Emelumadu)
Oryx and Crake // Borne (VanderMeer)
Our Missing Hearts // Paper Names
Our Share of Night // The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Our Wives Under the Sea // I Who Have Never Known Men
Out There Screaming // Twice Cursed
Outlawed // These Women
The Overstory // Once There Were Wolves
Pachinko // The Island of Sea Women
Paingod and Other Delusions // The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell
Pandemic (Riddle) // Child Zero
The Paper Menagerie // Beastiary
The Parable of the Sower // American Afterlife
To Paradise // Every Drop is a Manโ€™s Nightmare
The Paradox Hotel // Flux (Chong)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake // Peaces
The People of the Book // Ghostwritten (Mitchell)
The Pessimists // Why Did I Ever (Robison)
A Phoenix First Must Burn // Crosshairs (Hernandez)
Piranesi // Whether Violent or Natural
Poland (Michener) // Marzi (GN) Sowa
Poor Deer // Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
The Power // Woman World (GN)
Pride and Prejudice // The Other Bennet Sister
Project Hail Mary // Star Splitter
A Psalm for the Wild-built // Light From Uncommon Stars
The Pull of the Stars // As Bright as Heaven
QualityLand // Golden State (Winters)
Quichotte // FKA USA
Recursion // Big Time (Winters)
The Red Arrow // Dayswork
Red at the Bone // Riot Baby
The Refusal Camp // The Jackson Brodie series (Atkinson)
Remarkably Bright Creatures // Sea Change
The Resisters // Trashland
Ring Shout // Friday Black
Ripe (Etter) // The Startup Wife
A River of Stars // Central Places
The Rose Code // Good Night, Irene
Rosewater (Thompson) // Noor
Rubyfruit Jungle // With Teeth

fifischwarz,
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@kimlockhartga
Wow! Some of my favorites are in there; a few others I didn't see in this list. Anyhow, lots of interesting to be read titles. Thank you!
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