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As we get to the end of the year, I wanted to ask if any of you have and use StoryGraph? Yes, the GR competitor. I think I'm not alone in worrying about the future of GR. I thought it would be good the check out the current alternatives, and recently I've settled on StoryGraph. I'm not leaving GR, rather in 2025 I'm planning on logging on both websites. My SG username is imijen. Let me know if you're also there!
Dec 15, 2024 01:55AM 6 comments

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Imi is 43% done with 우리가 빛의 속도로 갈 수 없다면
I haven't picked this up at all since October, when I was in the middle of story #3, so I've decided to start again from story #4 and maybe come back to #3 another time.
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우리가 빛의 속도로 갈 수 없다면

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I wanted to share this script for anyone who like me is really, really struggling with the new bookpage.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/453...

It doesn't fix my biggest problems with the new design (shelves, or as they seem to be called now, tags, are now really hidden and hard to find/edit), but it does mean I don't have to scroll for miles to get to different parts of the page.
Feb 18, 2023 01:39AM Add a comment

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Imi is on page 92 of 131 of Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
Many composers have played the viola. It does not have the brilliance of the violin or the power of the cello, but when playing it your hear everything going on around you, all the relationships and harmonies, from inside. It's a writer's instrument, inward and between.
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Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

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Imi is starting Winter (Seasonal #2)
God was dead: to begin with.

And romance was dead. Chivalry was dead. Poetry, the novel, painting, they were all dead, and art was dead. Theatre and cinema were both dead. Literature was dead. The book was dead.
Jan 30, 2022 09:15AM Add a comment
Winter (Seasonal #2)

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Imi is on page 54 of 131 of Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
He catches fever, shivers till the morning coach.
His bag, his manuscripts, are soaked.
Sometimes, in catastrophe, you have to slam the door
and save what you've made as best you can.
He shows his friends the music: waterstains
like scars on a country terrorised by war.
Jan 30, 2022 08:50AM Add a comment
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Imi is on page 51 of 131 of Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
who was weak now, had to prop his elbow
to hold a violin. [...]

The names of where these players came from,
Ljubljana Hungary Germany Iraq,

[...]

I learned that music comes from everywhere.
That it takes strength to hold a violin,

that music crosses languages
and is mysteriously connected
to what we feel
Jan 30, 2022 08:47AM Add a comment
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

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Imi is on page 16 of 131 of Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
Now so many people I loved have died,
others lost in the wisps and fogs of Alzheimer's,
I'd like to hold on to that
looking back
to us three struggling with the notes
and the other two listening, waiting their turn.
Here we are still, the five of us,
trying to get the counting right.
Jan 30, 2022 08:23AM Add a comment
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Imi is on page 8 of 131 of Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
but he was the one who made you,
beat the notes into you on the clavier
viola, violin

your response to challenge ever after will be attack.
You will need no one. Only the relationship
of sound and key. You improvise.
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Imi is starting Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
They say the ear bone, shaped like the bowl
of a tiny spoon, lasts longest when we die.
Jan 30, 2022 08:14AM Add a comment
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life

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Imi is on page 37 of 96 of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
For far too long, in our social and political dealings, we have consulted the same old leather-bound dictionary that was for the most part compiled in the aftermath of the Cold War. So accustomed have we become to using this weighty tome as our reference that we no longer feel the need to look up rudimentary words, taking it for granted that we already know well what they mean.
Jan 04, 2022 09:05AM 1 comment
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

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Imi is on page 36 of 96 of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Sometimes, where you genetically or ethnically seem to fit in most is where you least belong. Sometimes you are at your loneliest among people who physically resemble you and seem to speak the same language. There are many citizens across the world today - and their number is growing - who have a hard time recognising their countries, walking like strangers in their own homelands.
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Imi is on page 12 of 96 of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
I might never have developed the skill [of writing] were it not for a singular letter in the Turkish alphabet.

It was called the soft g - a 'g' with a little squiggle on top, like this: ğ. [...] It did not have a voice of its own. Every other letter made a distinctive sound, expressed itself loud and clear, except this one. The soft ğ did not talk. It did not complain or articulate opinions or demand anything
Jan 04, 2022 08:42AM 1 comment
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

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Imi is 7% done with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
It was the best decision to start re-reading this beauty just before the new year!
Jan 01, 2022 02:10AM Add a comment
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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Imi is 58% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
...all the evidence suggests that we should turn to the maxim 'freedom within constraints' as the best way to understand culture's influence on the choice of coordinate systems. Nature - in this case the physical environment - certainly places constraints on the types of coordinate system that can be used sensibly in a given language. But there is considerable freedom within these constraints...
Oct 19, 2021 02:49AM Add a comment
Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 48% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
'Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.' The crucial differences between languages, in other words, are not in what each language allows its speakers to express - for in theory any language could express anything - but in what information each language obliges it speakers to express.
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Imi is 47% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
And if you are still tempted by the theory that the inventory of ready-made concepts in our mother tongue determines the concepts we are able to understand, then just ask yourself how one would ever manage to learn any new concepts if that theory were true.
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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 37% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
The more common ground you share with your hearer, the more often you will be able merely to 'point' with your words at the participants and at the place and time of events. And the more frequently such pointing expressions are used, the more likely they are to fuse and turn to endings and other morphological elements.
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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 36% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
The degree of morphological complexity in a language is not usually a matter of conscious choice or deliberate planning by the speakers. After all, the question of how many endings there should be on verbs or nouns hardly features in party political debates. [...] the reasons must be sought in the natural and unplanned paths of change that languages tread over time.
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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 34% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
Couldn't we decide, for instance, that the complexity of a language is defined as the difficulty it poses for foreign learners? But which learners exactly? The problem is that the difficulty of learning a foreign language crucially depends on the learner's mother tongue. Swedish is a doddle - if you happen to be Norwegian [...] But neither Swedish nor Spanish is easy if your native language is English.
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Imi is 28% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
And yet the similarities among languages in the choice of foci are still far too striking to be dismissed as haphazard: the great majority of languages still behave in a highly predictable way that would be hard to explain if cultures were free to divide the colour concepts entirely at whim. This uneasy balance between conformity and divergence is particularly evident in the order in which colour names...
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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 28% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
When they asked speakers of different languages to point at the best examples of various colours, there was surprising cross cultural similarity in the choice of foci [...] They concluded that these foci were universal constants of the human race that are biologically determined and independent of culture.
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Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 3% done with Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
Culture is understood here as all human traits that are not the result of instinct - in other words, as a synonym for nurture as opposed to nature. Culture thus encompasses all aspects of our behaviour that have evolved as social conventions and are transmitted through learning from generation to generation.
Oct 18, 2021 08:40AM Add a comment
Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

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Imi is 20% done with Moon Tiger
Today language abandoned me. I could not find the word for a simple object – a commonplace familiar furnishing. For an instant, I stared into a void. Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. Later, I made an inventory of the room – a naming of parts: bed, chair, table, picture, vase, cupboard, window, curtain. Curtain. And I breathed again.
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Moon Tiger

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Imi is 4% done with Moon Tiger
And when you and I talk about history we don’t mean what actually happened, do we? The cosmic chaos of everywhere, all time? We mean the tidying up of this into books, the concentration of the benign historical eye upon years and places and persons. History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
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Oh no.... Looks like the new Goodreads books page has finally reached me and I can't find any way to change it back D: I'm so lost.
Sep 14, 2021 06:47AM 2 comments

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Imi is 75% done with How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
....the same regions in the visual cortex light up whether one is seeing an object live—“online”—or merely recalling or imagining it, off-line. This suggests that the ability to visualize our thoughts should be the rule rather than the exception. Some neuroscientists suspect that during normal waking hours something in the brain inhibits the visual cortex...
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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Imi is 68% done with How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Each generation of children confronts a new environment,” she explained, “and their brains are particularly good at learning and thriving in that environment [...] Children don’t invent these new tools, they don’t create the new environment, but in every generation they build the kind of brain that can best thrive in it. Childhood is the species’ ways of injecting noise into the system of cultural evolution.”
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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