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Love. You never know where you might find it, but an archivist probably does. #ArchivesValentine
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My heart
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gOD HE’S SO TEENY
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🍻 Butterbeer 🍻
[Image description: A copy of the illustrated Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is standing up, propped open with a butterbeer scented candle burning in front of it]
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me: I’m going to finish this chapter and I’m off to bed
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Lies I tell myself
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For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!
I love you for sharing this!!!
For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.
For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery. They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.
I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.
Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).
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fav author: i’m writing a new book!!! yay!!!
book: *has no title, no cover, no plot, no release date*
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For most of the human race, pretty much all of the lifespan of the human race, information was currency. Information was like gold. It was rare, it was hard to find, it was expensive. You could get your information, but you had to know where to go, you had to know what you were looking at, you had to know how to find your information. It was hard. And librarians were the key players in the battle for information, because they could go and get and bring back this golden nugget for you, the thing that you needed.
Over the last decade, which is less than a blink of an eye in the history of the human race, it’s all changed. And we’ve gone from a world in which there is too little information, in which information is scarce, to a world in which there is too much information, and most of it is untrue or irrelevant. You know, the world of the Internet is the world of information that is not actually so. It’s a world of information that just isn’t actually true, or if it is true, it’s not what you needed, or it doesn’t actually apply like that, or whatever. And you suddenly move into a world in which librarians fulfill this completely different function.
We’ve gone from looking at a desert, in which a librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is one apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple. So I think from that point of view, the time of librarians, and the time of libraries—they definitely haven’t gone anywhere.
And I stand by every word of it.
(via neil-gaiman)
Source: bookpage.com
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Spooky
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Where do your reading habits rank you on this fun chart of alignment provided by writershq.co.uk? This is an amusing look at reading habits mixed with the dnd alignment system.
#OgdensburgPublicLibrary #alignmentsystem #dnd #UseYourLibrary #readingforfun (at Ogdensburg Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxhjs_MA9dW/?igshid=292hauk8rt2t
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A Story by Any Other Name
There’s nothing like re-invented a classic story and twisting an original narrative. We have a soft spot for retellings of all kinds - so today we’re rounding up our favorites!
#1: Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
This dark retelling starts where Cinderella ends––when Cinderella leaves with the prince and the ugly, vindictive stepsisters are left behind. But this story is about what happens when “ugly stepsister” Isabelle has a chance to change her fate, and reinvents the classic story at every turn. Start reading Stepsister!
#2: Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury
Anastasia…in space?! Say no more! Actually, we have a lot more to say about this one. After rebellion swept the galaxy and the entire Leonov royal family was murdered, a new order rules the Belt of Jewels. When it’s revealed that Stacia is in fact the last surviving member of the Leonov family, she must race across a galaxy turned against her to save those she loves.
#3: Storm-Wake by Lucy Christopher
This list wouldn’t be complete without a Shakespeare retelling. This atmospheric and romantic retelling of The Tempest is sure to have you ready to re-read all of the Bard’s work. Moss has grown up on the strangest and most magical of islands. Her father has a plan to control the tempestuous weather that wracks the shores. But the island seems to have a plan of its own…fall into Storm-Wake now!
#4: Dark Breaks the Dawn and Bright Burns the Night by Sara B. Larson
This dark retelling of Swan Lake is a duology packed with romance, betrayal, and deception! On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers. In order to defeat dark forces plotting against her, Evelayn will quickly have to come into her ability to shapeshift, and rely on the alluring Lord Tanvir. But not everyone is what they seem, and the balance between the Light and Dark comes at a steep price. Intrigued? Start reading!
#5: Everland, Umberland, and Ozland by Wendy Spinale
In the Everland series, you get THREE retellings for the price of one! Starting with a retelling of Peter Pan, then Alice in Wonderland, and closing out with The Wizard of Oz. Book one, Everland, starts in London, which has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only way to grow up is to survive. Start reading!