Romania in Speculative Fiction (and Dragon-riding Wizard-Vampires) Infinite Text 2024-10-20 | Romania in Speculative Fiction (and Dragon-riding Wizard-Vampires)
A Cozy Reading Check-in and Fun Library Updates Infinite Text 2024-10-05 | As I'm navigating life and dipping in and out of books I thought I'd share some of my reading and work journey with you. Books Mentioned: Charles Addams A Cartoonist's LIfe by Linda H. DavisDark Adventure Radio Theatre: hplhs.org/dart.phpThe Great When by Alan MooreWilliam Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird by Timothy S. MurphyMagazine Fine Books & CollectionsThe Morgan Library Exhibition: themorgan.org/exhibitions/belle-da-costa-greeneRemarkable Diaries Leo Tolstoy What is Art?The Young H.G. Wells Changing the WRold by Claire Tomalin Exhalation (short stories) by Ted Chiang Other Socials:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AndreeasLinks Insta: @infinitetextlibrary Twitter: https://x.com/InfiniteTextLib Work Channel: youtube.com/@TheRobertsonDaviesLibrary/videosBuy Me a Coffee (no pressure): buymeacoffee.com/infinitetext
Original Copperplate by PHIZ from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens Infinite Text 2024-10-04 | ...
The Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson Infinite Text 2024-09-29 | Today I talk briefly about a book I've enjoyed this week called The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' by William Hope HodgsonResources if you want to read this:Full free text on Project Gutenberg: gutenberg.org/ebooks/10542 Full free audiobook on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=FR0tXo3IGvQ Other Socials:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AndreeasLinks Insta: / infinitetextlibrary Twitter: https://x.com/InfiniteTextLib Buy Me a Coffee (no pressure): buymeacoffee.com/infinitetext#weirdfiction #booktube #scifi
Victober TBR 2024 Infinite Text 2024-09-29 | Victober is a month-long readathon hosted each October all about reading Victorian literature.The Goodreads group remains in place, but most of our discussions these days happen over on Discord: discord.com/invite/CzmtyGAnwJTHE HOSTS AND THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTSKate Howe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRSm...Katie, Books and Things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyQH...Marissa, Blatantly Bookish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOcN...Ros, Scallydandling about the books:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbi...---THE 2024 CHALLENGES---Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the storyKatie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some wayMarissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialisedRos’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian playGroup challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleGroup Read: The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth BraddonGoodreads: goodreads.com/group/show/722891-victober-2024 Books Mentioned:The Founding by Charlotte BronteIrish Ghost StoriesDramatized Wilde (Importance of Being Earnest) audible.com/pd/The-Importance-of-Being-Earnest-Dramatized-Audiobook/B0036I8XE8?ref_pageloadid=omYLRmSbPNGLk7tN&pf_rd_p=95b555b2-2931-4812-98e1-6535e764d43f&pf_rd_r=6P0YBJ4QJCX3G9JVGQMA&pageLoadId=47BHD1wFuqP6WetJ&creativeId=b5fa8602-fb94-432a-aacc-e3734bed4f97&ref=a_library_w_c5_lProduct_5 Lady Beeton's Book on Household ManagementThe Phantom Ship by Cap Frederick MarryatTreasure Island by R. L. StevensonA Study in Scarlet and Hound of Baskerville by SIr Arthur Conan Doyle Other Socials:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AndreeasLinks Insta: / infinitetextlibrary Twitter: https://x.com/InfiniteTextLib Buy Me a Coffee (no pressure): buymeacoffee.com/infinitetext#victober #victober2024 #victorianliterature #booktube
Foxing in Books Infinite Text 2024-09-21 | Foxing ResourcesAmerican Institute for Conservation Wiki on Foxing, details, and preservation: conservation-wiki.com/wiki/BPG_Foxing#%22Bullseye%22 Essay “Conservation of Paper Documents Damaged by Foxing”: http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/Files/37/11_ArdeleanMelniciuc.pdf Analysis of Paper Foxing: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964830517313264#:~:text=The%20results%20obtained%20in%20the,and%20dye%20production%2C%20and%20the Foxing on historic manuscript mdpi.com/2571-9408/4/3/74 Paper PH levels essay: nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/22/jresv22n5p553_A1b.pdfLeonardo DaVinci Foxing essays: researchgate.net/figure/Leonardo-da-Vincis-self-portrait-drawn-on-paper-with-red-chalk-The-portrait-was-last_fig1_279299615 and this: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.12313Archival Materials (you can buy) universityproducts.com/archival-essentials
So You Want to Be an Archivist Infinite Text 2024-09-15 | In this podcast episode (a reupload of an old video) I talk about what it means to be an archivist with my good friend Jenn. She has been an archivist for seven years and is very skilled at what she does.
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Infinite Text 2024-09-14 | The edition I'm holding of this book is translated by Constance Garnett. I've also read the Hogarth edition. Book Mentioned:Poor Folk by Fyodor Dosyevsky Stories Mentioned:Tales of Belkin by A. Pushkin (specifically the Stationmaster)The Overcoat (or cloak) by N. Gogol
The first book on the history and nature of writing. Hugo, Hermann (1617) Antwerp Infinite Text 2024-09-10 | ...
