Yes I put it myself! It’s washi indeed.
Nicely done!
Libb
joined 2 years ago
J'avoue que je n'ai rien prévu de spécial pour finir/commencer l'année. Lire est un process permanent et quotidien en ce qui me concerne. En journée aussi bien que la nuit, car je dors peu et me lève très tôt (pour profiter d'un calme dans le voisinage (et sur la route) qui est encore plus rare ici à Paris que de trouver un(e) politicien(n)e honnête).
Donc, voilà ce que je lis en ce moment. J'essaye d'avoir de la variété, histoire de jamais me sentir coincé dans un seul livre, mais j'avance sur tous en même temps.
Fr:
- Maupassant, Contes et Nouvelles. Commencé hier, le 31/12, ce serait donc peut-être lui le spécial 2024/25 s'il faut en désigner un. Et ce ne serait pas un mauvais choix, vu la qualité de sa prose.
- Rousseau, Du Contrat social. Cela fait 40 ans que je me dis que je devrais le lire au lieu de me contenter de ma paresseuse impression (comme pas mal de monde, j'en ai peur) de savoir ce dont il parle sans même l'avoir ouvert.
- Baudelaire, Spleen de Paris. Déjà lu, mais ça ne le rend pas moins bon.
English:
- P.K. Dick, Ubik (lui aussi c'est la 2e fois que je le lis, pour dire vrai)
- Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire. J'ai découvert ce recueil paru chez Penguin en 2024 et j'ai été tellement impressionné parce la poignée de textes que j'y ai lu (des essais 'écolos', mais pas que ça loin de là) que je me suis offert 3 des 4 volumes de Berry parus chez Library of America (2 d'essais et 1 de ses fictions).
Et vous quel(s) livre(s) vous accompagne(nt) en 2025 ?
Comme on en parlait y a quelques jours sur Journaling, pour la première fois je me suis fait un liste de lecture. Histoire de rester focus au lieu de constamment papillonner d'un livre à l'autre comme j'ai toujours fait. C'est une liste sur 6 mois seulement, je suis pas certain du tout de pouvoir m'y tenir ça sert à rien de planifier plus loin.
J'ai pas partagé le détail de ma liste dans cette discussion (pas persuadé que ce que je compte lire intéresse du monde à part... moi) mais y a rien de secret et si quelqu'un veut y jeter un oeil, y a qu'à demander.
et avec Mamie Luger en Audio.
Des années durant, j'étais très amateurs audiobooks. C'est un excellent format (et un catalogue d'une telle richesse, en anglais en tous cas), j'étais abonné Audible US depuis... sa création. Mais vu que j'ai récemment choisi de prendre mes distances avec Amazon, qui possède Audible, j'ai mis fin à mon abonnement.
j’arrive en 2025 avec Le second tome des Dames de Marlow en papier
Pour les curieux, qui n'auraient pas peur de se farcir mon pauvre anglais, j'ai expliqué sur mon blog qu'après des années à ne lire quasi que des ebooks, j'ai presque complètement cessé d'en lire (ou alors seulement s'ils sont vendus sans DRM). À la fois par souci de protéger ma vie privée (pas de traquage/profilage avec un livre papier), et parce que je souhaite garantir mon droit de propriété sur ce que j'achète, y compris les livres.
Je refuse que qui que ce soit puisse entrer chez moi (même mon chez-moi électronique) pour venir y supprimer un livre que j'aurais acheté, ou encore pour le modifier... peu importe la 'bonne raison' avancée (morale, grammaticale ou typographique), just fuck off. Et aussi parce que je veux pouvoir donner ou revendre d'occasion mes livres si ça me chante, et en acheter aussi.
Tous mes voeux pour 2025, aux lecteurs et lectrices qui liront ceci. Et aux non-lecteurs et non-lectrices aussi :P
Sounds like a good idea. Knowing how I write, I'm not sure I would manage to force myself to keep them separated but I'm curious.
It looks great (and very practical)! I may not be 100% objective saying that, but I also find it real nice to see some French, vraiment :)
Also, is the golden rim thing washi tape or something like that you added yourself too? It looks neat.
Have you already decided the first book you will be adding to you 2025 journal?
I already keep at least four journals
One of the reasons I'm not serious enough with keeping my journals being 'thematic' is that I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with all of them. It's already not that obvious with my one journal and me talking about my reading journal, I should have made that clearer was just a way of saying I write about books in my journal. Maybe this could be the right trigger to start a dedicated reading journal? I will consider that and decide in the next couple days ;)
I’d also like to start a sketching and watercolor journal. I really miss that creative outlet, and a sketchbook might help to carve out time for it.
Do it. Go for it. Start now.
My only regret doing it is not my lack of talent/mastery, it's that I have not started doing it many years earlier. Quick sketches can be real quick, and even when they're not, they're worth the time you will spend on them, it feels... good.
’m going to start planning my days and journaling about my work day, all on paper. I’ve discovered I really like writing when I have nice paper and a nice pen and a vision of a good journal filled cover to cover with notes.
:)
I’m also playing around with an analog zettelkasten to support more blogging, but I’m still feeling that out.
The only advice I would give anyone new to Zettel is to keep it simple. Even more so with an analog one (I'm an analog Zettelkasten user too), as it's a tool devised to easily with you and to adapt as easily to your changing habits and needs. So, it's not like you need to get it perfectly right to begin with, or to prepare for every single possible situations. Mine has changed a lot, be it in the way I fill-in my cards or in the way I number them, and what's great is that I never had to redo any of them, not even their numbering, they're just there alongside the newer ones.
At this very moment, I'm trying to make blogging a legit part of my zettel too. I blogged a lot a few years ago but it was never a legit part of my zettel more like an afterthought. I also have a really hard time getting back to it nowadays (even more so doing it in English). that may be something worth discussing with our friends at !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone?
What I’ve learned via two failed attempts at bullet journaling is that I need my notebooks to have specific purposes.
That's something I should probably be much more systematic about myself. I never was good at it, alas. Or more exactly I never tried seriously enough. Maybe it's the right time of the year to decide to do it?
It’s not quite journaling, but I want to start keeping lists of family trips and events, and medical stuff.
Sounds a lot like a form of journaling to me (I do keep a list of the time I wake up, a two three words summary of the weather and a single word summary of my... mood) ;)
Also tracking games I play, both board/card and video/desktop so I can tell how much I really play.
Exactly. That's a good idea and it may help you better appreciate some games too/
Désolé d’être pédant mais ce n’est pas du thé, ne faisons pas comme les Anglais qui appellent toutes les infusions du thé.
Ne le sois pas. Tu dois avoir raison, je n'ai pas vraiment fait attention.
Chacun l'appelera comme ça lui chante. Quant à moi, je l'achète dans une boutique de thé et je range sa boite dans le placard à côté des boites des quelques autres thés que nous apprécions boire, et en plus ce sont exactement les mêmes boites en métal alignées sur la même planche. Planche où se trouvent aussi rangées quelques tisanes et autres infusions artisanales que ma douce et moi, dans notre ignorance crasse, n'hésitons jamais non plus à appeler 'thé' certains soirs quand l'envie nous prend d'en proposer une tasse à l'autre. Et puis, je dois bien avouer que je ne l'appelle pas souvent, je le bois.
Par contre, ce que je ne fais pas c'est utiliser la même théière indistinctement pour infuser tous les types de thés. On en a une pour les thés verts et plus acides en général, une autre pour les thés plus terreux (genre, breakfast), une pour les tisanes. J'ai aussi un minutage précis pour chaque thé (ce qui a l'art de rendre folle ma moitié même si elle en apprécie le résultat). Pédant, disais-tu? Je connais ça ;)
No, thx.
How would you feel? Why just ask the question?
ça dépend des goûts et des marques mais imho c'est un thé plutôt facile à boire, très doux.
On prend le nôtre chez Dammann. Je crois qu'ils vendent d'ailleurs un assortiment de différentes versions (perso, je suis plus vanille), et on le prend en vrac, c'est moins cher et ça fait moins de déchets à jeter.
Bah, tu m'as donné envie d'en préparer, c'est malin :)
Thx for sharing!
Quoting from the original post:
when I want a new book I don’t pull out my phone, I walk down the street to the used book store.
So do I (only, it's a little further away which makes for a nice walk too). It's part of the fun, at least for me.
Also, I don't like being tracked while I read and I want fully own the books I buy (I don't want anyone to be able to delete or edit them, and I want the freedom to sell or to give away what I own, without any DRM/corporation trying to prevent me from doing that).
All of my favorite used book stores are located in old buildings that have lots of nooks and crannies. It’s this fractal approach to book layout that I think encourages exploration into areas you wouldn’t explicitly seek out otherwise.
100%. As can be speaking with the owner, employees, or even another customers you happen to meet in the same dusty corner of the shop. And as can help an odd cover color, or very different dimensions: they'll mechanically grab my attention and I'm much more likely to at least glance at the author's name and at its title.
That being said, I had a look to this interesting experiment (the technical explanations I did read are way too technical for non-geek me, hope that's fine. Also I'm not sure to understand the way various genres are being grouped in clusters, or not grouped).
My first reaction was: where do I start? My second one was: Covers? Why should I care about them?
Then, I started looking around and I noticed a few things:
- It was not a surprise for me but still it was glaringly obvious: a lot of the books I had zero interest in them.
- Depending the genre, it's also obvious how similar looking covers can be or, if I understand the experiment right, I should say how similar looking the covers can be for those books in that genre people liked most?
Which leads me to the question: why would they so similar (depending the genre, others not so much)? Is this because they are better covers that attract more people, hence the book wrapped inside that cover gets more likes? Or is it because readers in that genre are more afraid to read stuff that dares/tries to look different? So, instead of constantly trying and experimenting to be different, everyone concerned by making covers would be doing a very similar type of covers, using the same codes? Which could be sad (for the reader even more so than for the cover artist) because, you know, one is supposed to not judge a book by its cover ;)
On a more personal level, I also noticed that I could not be bothered when there was too many similar looking covers. They dissolved into a messy blob I could not care about. It's probably related to the fact that I don't wish to waste my time trying to identify any specific book within too many similar looking books. If they can't quickly be distinguished and if I can't search for a title or the author I simply stop caring.
Could that be a generational thing? I mean, I'm in my 50s and, even though I've always been an avid SF reader who like a nice cover, I don't give the slightest fuck about them either. I mean, even for SF I won't buy a book because of its cover and SF is but a small subset of my reading habits. Just wondering.
Aren't they a pain for you elsewhere too?
Why the hate?
My own approach is to ignore down/upvotes on whatever I share, it's even simpler on Lemmy since there is no 'karma', and to focus on comments instead, aka on people actually willing to say something regarding whatever I wrote. Be it positive or negative, they deserve a little more of my attention than any downvoter ever will.
Most downvoters are way too lazy to even try writing a comment explaining the reason why they downvoted a post. So, for me ignoring them is a win-win(-win) situation: 1. I don't worry about meaningless numbers, 2. I read less crappy comments because they don't care to explain why they downvoted (and, 3. They're happy too, freely pooping their meaningless downvotes) ;)
Edit: added a missing word.