Currently reading: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 📚
I’ve never seen text formatted where a space is included before the apostrophe or in between the two words of a contraction, as you can see in “they ‘re” & “did n’t. Though for some reason “don’t” is written normally. I wonder is this a peculiarity of Jame’s writing that Modern Library have preserved? I don’t imagine it’s a Modern Library have a style guide that’s being imposed on the text.
Finished reading: The Pearl by John Steinbeck 📚
Finished reading: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 📚
Great line from an Oliver Burkeman blog post:
this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).
Lovely Modern Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. I picked this up following a thread from the novel Either/Or in which the author Elif Batuman spends some time talking about James and his novel.
After finishing one book, I think an interesting way to decide what to read next is to allow the current book to point you in a direction if not choose outright what the next book should be. Near the end of the novel Either/Or, Elif Batuman spends some time talking about Henry James and his novel The Portrait of a Lady. I also watched a wonderful interview with Batuman discussing Either/Or and there also is a great discussion of James and this book. In this case I’m letting Batuman explicitly choose my next book to read and I think it’s going to be a good decision!
Saw “Bones and All” last night. I went knowing nothing—thinking it was some kind of romantic road movie. In a way that’s not wrong but … oof!
There shouldn’t have been any doubt it was intentional. RIP twitterific on iOS. The mac desktop client still works for now. Even more keen to get on Tapbots Ivory beta now.
I really hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for third party clients. The experience on Twitter’s own site is awful.
Currently reading: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 📚
TIL: sometimes, while they soak, chickpeas can make an audible popping sound. Thankfully I didn’t spend to long going crazy, wondering where that sound was coming from.
David Erhlich’s 25 best films of 2022 video countdown. These are exceptionally well put together and well worth a watch regardless of whether you agree with the ranking or not. Watch the previous years videos if you haven’t seen them. vimeo.com/786806921