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Picked this up because Delgado's expertise was mentioned in National Geographic's Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs, in connection with the wrecks of the Mary Rose and the Clotilda.

Ngl, the narrator of this one is v. dry, but they can't all be winners and the subject is still fascinating lol

I'm going to be honest, I did not expect Dominion voting machines to make an appearance. I am completely hooked.

oh this is going to be one of my favorites this year, I can already tell.

obvs the civilization being discussed here is very very narrow, but I do like Cahill's narration style enough to overlook that for the span of an audiobook lmao

Paused on this until my library hold on the physical copy comes through. Audiobook didn't come with a PDF and refers to pictures I can't see lol.

Deeply enjoying how many of these pieces are colorfully reef-themed. And beading really makes the sea creatures pop, who'd've guessed? My eyes enjoy all of it; I know just enough about beading to recognize the sheer amount of WORK involved.

This has been on my library hold list for awhile, and every time I saw it (all caps in the database,) I was unable to resist the urge to match the fervor. "WOMEN," I would agree.

I'm probably going to finish this in one sitting. WOMEN.

PAGE 3: "Kiyanna's use of thrifted items to express her creativity was so impressive and inspirational, not only was I hooked on thrifting, but I was hooked on her ... (blushes in gay)."

INSTANTLY CHARMED.

am learning a lot! could have done without the emotional whiplash of first learning that cardiac arrest is most common in the morning (my mother died at 8:10am,) and then only a few pages later reading the words "even bees can experience jet lag!"

This is a charming and very engaging book, but even if it was dense as bricks I'd still be grateful to it for explaining why it is, in fact, "octopuses" and not "octopi", something I did not know until now lol

considering the last book I read about Baghdad left a sour taste in my mouth, it was immediately noticeable to me just how much more enjoyable it is to read something by an author who actually ENJOYS his subject.

Library find! A book the size of my torso containing scans of a particular Amsterdam university's collection of rare books (and is thus eurocentric,) I'm admiring not only the chronology of printing it shows, but also how we DIDN'T get it right and how the fonts & typesets that we take for granted today were, in fact, the product of hundreds of years of trial and error.

I'm going to finish it, because I AM learning, but it's just ... disappointing when it's this obvious an author has nothing but contempt for his subject.

an interesting collection of six-word poems from students of all ages, essays from teachers, and installations from the kansas city art institute.

"Length: 30hrs" was a fake-out. There wasn't even dead air, it ended exactly where it should have lmao. Ah well! Genuinely great book, I adored the narrator's voice.

My version of the audiobook insists it's 30hrs long, but every official source for this title insists it's only 16hrs long, so we'll see what my special bonus time contains lmao

DENSELY academic. Which is cool!! The subject deserves it, I just have to pick the rhythm back up lmao.

I found 'Fabric' and 'Jewels' by Victoria Finlay to be very engaging reads, so when I saw my library had her coffee table book, I picked it up. The charming humor translates here, too.

this is very much a "expert in field has tunnel vision about field" kind of enthusiastic book, and learning about Dutch guild widows taking over in the Delftware field makes me wonder if it was true too for the other guild fields, like glass and bookbinding, and who's doing historical research into those women.

are u ever just minding ur own business and then u read the phrase "[...] published a seminal article that attempted to classify the various types of Greek and Etruscan wine ladles and strainers" and are immediately charmed? like. that v. v. specific information exists out there and you can read it! it's not the only article, it's the /seminal/ one. like!!

i know 1986 is not that long ago at all, but can you imagine this happening in the present day? Whistleblowers like McDonald would be Boeinged without a blink.

this is very much a "in the room where it happened" personal account, but the fact that the men doing most of the obfuscating about responsibility went to the same Mormon church does not surprise me at all.

Library find! The copy I have is, unfortunately, not free of typos and typeset errors, but it also introduced me to the word "suffrajitsu," so actually, I'm going to forgive it everything.

This instructor has a whole host of dad jokes and gets so excited about his topic, it's so fun.

this was a library find, and the problem with being really excited to learn something is that every time i sit down and crack it open, i read something, the brain goes brrr, and then have to get up and walk around about it.

Picked this up on sale on Libro.fm about a month ago, but was prompted to start reading it after hearing of Andrea Gibson's passing.

Library find, and what an absolute riot of information! I love how each section is divided up by family and order; it's impossible not to flip to a page and learn something brand new. My favorite thing!

Library find. I especially love the side-by-side comparison of diamond rings through the ages, as lapidaries learned how to set and facet them better, from the opaque blocky Roman rings to present-day Cartier. Fascinating!

I'm very excited to learn more about mycelium, but I do have to get my first immature reaction out of the way first: it's a book about fungus written by a guy named merlin sheldrake. he says "it's a scientific tangle that soaking in LSD might help loosen" and I say, "that's what I THOUGHT you'd say, /merlin/."

"Therein lies the great tragedy of the Congo's mining provinces: no one up the chain considers themselves responsible for the miners, even though they ALL profit from them."