Tabs I've had open that just don't seem to make the full post all on their own:
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18 Things Every Book Lover Can Relate To, dissenting strongly from no 3 - just because you don't judge a book by its cover doesn't mean that there is no judgement on other criteria, wtf; and on no 8, my jury is out until I find what a person loves to read; also, no ( Read more... )

A Certain Journalist Writing in The Spectator has recently reported on a paper by Real Scientist Type People saying that dyslexia is not A Real Thing.

And CJ is going Haw Haw always knew it was middleclass term for little Tarquin dimmer than Toc H Lamp, whereas my own smart money is on the paper actually being that dyslexia is too coarse and broad ( Read more... )

Review of the book about Joan Easdale/Sophie, link to article about whom I posted yesterday.

Extract from Stephane Merritt's memoir of depression:
I had always assumed that having a breakdown meant that you shut down altogether, and that you would know you were having one if you lost your grip on reason.

Oh dear yes.
If I lost my job, I would be ( Read more... )

Have been thinking lately, largely inspired by some of the articles in book on food studies recently very kindly sent to me by lloronas_eyes, about the idea of women as 'instinctive' cooks - in particular women who (perhaps for reasons of ethnicity, or class) have not, for example, had the (somewhat dubious) advantages of education in 'domestic science'. (Also ( Read more... )

Two articles in today's Education Guardian:

One on that threatened species: the academic literary critic.

And one on creative writing courses.

From which we seemed compelled to deduce that these fields are still pretty much Jobs for teh Boyz, because no women at all get cited in the first, and only two (apart from the name-checking of Zadie Smith ( Read more... )

Having commented in response to comments on yesterday's post, which included some brief discussion on the recent research which found (and are we surprised?) that men talk as much as women, I had some further thoughts about why there is the perception that OMG Wymmynz - they B takin ovah teh Rt of convers8ion.

Or rather, more generally, had the ( Read more... )

(Yes, I'm at work revising the manuscript again...)

But I was thinking of those things that one will never know not because the documentation has not survived, but because these are things that are not documented, that even slip away from personal memory.

This may be just me, but I think of the periods of my life when what was important, or ( Read more... )