I'm Brigid, 30-something. Meeanjin (Brisbane), Australia. ISFJ. I spend my days surrounded by books - working in a school library by day and by my personal bookshelves at night. I keep buying books even though I own too many unread ones as is. Main blog = terryboot
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge
March 13, 2025 - Debut Author
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JOMP BPC || July 22 || Colors: This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman
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Forgot to post that I recently finished Fruiting Bodies - stories by Kathryn Harlan. In one of the stories, a young woman grows mushrooms on her body, and her girlfriend cuts them off and cooks them.
This is the first book I finished in 2023.
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Good news! My copy of Moira's Pen is now cat-approved!
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Book 51/50 of 2022
Date Finished: 6th September 2022
Rating: 3/5
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If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.
Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.
We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."
The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.
Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.
That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.
Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.
So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.
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The modern character of Frankenstein is so divorced from the source material that it's hard to even know how to classify it. Like any new Frankenstein character that comes out isn't even a retelling or an interpretation anymore, that character has been completely fabricated, like tons of little bits of old forgotten media have been stitched together to make the version of him we know today, it's like, it's almost like he's been like... well I can't think of a word but you get what I mean
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✨I love when preorders come in. It’s so satisfying. ✨
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Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen This is 1 of 13 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.
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My haul from the three days I spent in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago! There's so many cute indie bookstores down there, my Brissie ass couldn't restrain myself lmao
#booklr#we really only have chain stores up here#I mean a couple of independent stores around the city/west end maybe altho now I think about it maybe they're mostly second hand stores#certainly around where i am it's really just dymocks or qbd to choose from#anyway#came home and went straight into book week at work which is why i forgot to post this earlier it was v busy and exhausting#book haul#brigid speaks
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Count reprints, later editions of the same book, etc. If you have a copy that includes multiple books in one volume, you can count that, but do not count sequels/etc on their own. You can count ebooks and audiobooks if you possess the files in a permanent way (borrowed and streamed don't count).
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#ive been collecting different editions of frankenstein for a while#not sure the exact number but defs over 10
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made a list of books i associate with tumblr (which admittedly was sourced from 1) my brain 2) my blog and 3) walking around the bookstore where i work and looking at the shelves so i may have left some out)
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Been in Melbourne for a few days, managed to buy six books lmao so i'll post a little haul when i get home tomorrow!
#theres sooooooo many little independent bookstores here#which we just dont have in brisbane#makes me wanna start a lil bookstore#or move to melb sksujsjsjkskskksks#brigid speaks
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#rereading Emma atm (but with annotations from my bestie)#im also still working through my reread of a storm of swords#(just did the red wedding 😭😭)
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I really did think we all knew about the horse romance novel but I guess I may be wrong
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