#ST: TOS 04

[avronreadstrek]

* 191 pages (five days to read) * First published 1981-12 * Fourth numbered TOS Pocket Books

Stardate 7815.3 - While the cover image (and a couple of story elements) makes it seem to have been set after the first movie the author had started writing it before that movie was released.

The author was mid-late twenties when he got this published, mere years after having a story he wrote get made into an episode of the Animated Series. Unlike the other two 'new' novels this had an intro, that seems unneeded. Although it did provide a bit of context for the time. The Author's notes also make it obvious that there was a longer turn around for publishing when the Pocket Books Trek Novels were getting started - nearly a year from note to publish. (I think it probably dropped to less than six months before the turn of the century.)

The story is heavily focused on Spock, Bones, and the 'character of the week' as they attempt to reclaim an artifact. Kirk is less present, dealing with a limited threat from Klingons. Chekov gets bookend scenes dealing with weight gain* that seems merely story padding (and would have been to meet contract requirements for minimum screen time if this was an episode). Scotty and Sulu barely get a mention, and while Uhura is slightly more present there's a description of clothing that sexualises her in a very unneeded manner. (At the same age I might well have written similar were I to write, even with 30 more years of social progress.)

Kirk had spent a portion of his early career on a lightly populated planet with strategic resources for starship operation and befriended the King. Klingon interference in the politics of the planet led to the King, Queen, and Princess being taken to another planet for their safety. And them being stuck there for 18 years until it seems possible to bring them back safely. Having the Princess take on the role of ruler requires the artifact of their Gods benevolence be returned so there's an expedition on another planet to reclaim it. Hence the focus on Spock, Bones, and the Princess.

Unlike the earlier couple of books I've reread for this, I didn't feel like most of the characters were written poorly. Spock was logical, and frustrated with the emotional behavior of Bones. Bones was inclined to prod Spock on occasion and reacted based on feelings a lot. On the other hand he was displeased with aging, and was tempted to start a relationship with the much younger Princess.

*Weight gain that only existed as a result of a mis-calibrated scale in the medbay area. Discovered after he spent much of the book, in those short moments he was seen, exercising too much and eating too little.

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Secondly,

Dear K/S friends,

Greetings! The KiScon newsletter is back – and will resume its monthly frequency to bring you all our announcements (events, fic fests, KiScon 2023 progress reports, and more news from the world of K/S) directly into your inbox.

1. KiScon 2022 – A short recap:

We made it through con farr and enjoyed every minute of it! It was an amazing and immersive weekend filled with many wonderful discussions and presentations, plot bunnies roaming freely, and the delights of fanworks shared among us.

We might not have been all together in a hotel for three days, but despite the virtual format and our dispersion throughout locations and timezones the con still defined a time and place for us, a happy bubble, and everything else around it, in that so-called real life out there, was not allowed to intrude much.

A detailed post-con report (pdf file) has been sent out by email to all registered members a few days ago; it includes a bunch of goodies to prolong the squee: the complete playlist of our vid shows, the Round Robin fic, fic recs, and links to several panel notes and presentations, as well as other important download links (e.g. for the con bag items) and info where you can find KiScon year-round. If you were registered for KiScon 2022, but have not received this email, please make sure to check the (fannish) email you used to register for KiScon, check your spam folder, and get in touch with us.

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2. KiScon 2023:

As already announced in the Closing Ceremony, KiScon will return for the weekend 3–5 Nov, 2023. Registration will open in January 2023. Stay tuned for the announcement! 

This con will again be an online convention, but we are already working on a hybrid (in-person & online) format for 2024, and we are in negotiations with a hotel.

3. Upcoming Events:

Apart from these K/S-filled con weekends we will continue to host events (e.g. Pub Nights, but also competitions and fests) year-round. Our "KiScord" (KiScon Discord server) will stay open and active. There can never be enough K/S in one’s life. 

Starting this week, there will be an online event every Saturday, with alternating Pub Nights and Viewing Parties.

Pub Night – The Afterglow

Aaand the Pub Nights are back! But we'll use Zoom instead of the Discord chat, for better audio and video quality.

Saturday, 26 Nov 2022 11:00 a.m. PST 01:00 p.m. CST 02:00 p.m. EST 07:00 p.m. GMT/UTC 20:00 CET

Cinema of Squee – TOS Viewing Party

Saturday, 3 Dec 2022 01:00 p.m. PST 03:00 p.m. CST 04:00 p.m. EST 09:00 p.m. GMT/UTC 22:00 CET

We are going to watch the two pilots: "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (restored, unaired pilot version). This takes place on Zoom, much like our ST V viewing party at the end of KiScon. 

4. K/S Advent Calendar:

The official deadline for K/S Advent Calendar submissions is in the past (with the exception of a few individual deadline extensions), and it enabled the mods to gather enough works to draw up the schedule for the gradual reveal throughout December. However, you can still submit works (fic, art, vids, podfic, even photos of crafted 3D-objects) to the collection until the end of the year, both as fill for a prompt and as extra work (for an explanation how adding a fanwork to a collection works, please see the FAQs and Rules section on the AO3 collection profile). 

If there are works coming in very late in December, they will be revealed at the end of K/S Advent, as a kind of New Years Eve firework. Works coming in sooner will be added to the daily reveals. In any case, the collection will be closed to adding new works on 31 Dec, 2022, 11:59 a.m. UTC!

5. Where to find KiScon information & announcements: Official website KiScon Discord server Tumblr blog Twitter Conline Facebook Group Dreamwidth YouTube Past newsletters: KiScon Announcement(February 2022) Progress Report #1(March 2022) Progress Report #2(May 2022) Progress Report #3(June 2022) Progress Report #4(July 2022) Progress Report #5incl. Program Survey (September 2022) Progress Report #6(October 1st, 2022) Progress Report #7(October 11th, 2022) Progress Report #8(October 16th, 2022) Progress Report #9(Nov 2nd, 2022) Yours in K/S,

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I haven’t had an Oreo since I was diagnosed with celiac disease almost 6 years ago and Oreos are one of the top things i miss eating but today I had the new gluten free Oreo and it was so good I cried

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╾─◍̸ೃ‧ཾ͘ヾ▩⃟🌹⃟◍ཾ͘‧ೃ◍̸─╼

Ao ρᥲssᥲr do tᥱmρo, ᥲqᥙᥱᥣᥱs qᥙᥲιs ᥒᥲ̃o tιᥒhᥲm fᥱ́ ᥲᥣgᥙmᥲ forᥲm ᥲtrᥲ́s dᥲqᥙᥱᥣᥲ ᥲ qᥙᥲᥣ todos tᥱmᥱm! Sᥲtᥲᥒιsmo. Umᥲ fᥱ́ rᥱᥲᥣmᥱᥒtᥱ fortᥱ ᥱ ᥴom ᥙmᥲ vιsᥲ̃o totᥲᥣmᥱᥒtᥱ ᥒᥱgᥲtιvᥲ, ᥲfιᥒᥲᥣ, sᥲtᥲᥒιsmo ᥱ́ rᥱᥲᥣmᥱᥒtᥱ tᥙdo ιsso qᥙᥱ ρᥱᥒsᥲmos? Dᥱmôᥒιos ᥱ mᥲιs dᥱmôᥒιos?

Bom, vᥲmos rᥲᥴιoᥴιᥒᥲr..

Lᥙ́ᥴιfᥱr ᥱrᥲ ᥙm Arᥴᥲᥒjo! A Estrᥱᥣᥲ do Amᥲᥒhᥲ̃.

Todos sᥲbᥱmos ᥲ hιstórιᥲ dᥱ Lᥙ́ᥴιfᥱr, brᥲço dιrᥱιto dᥱ Dᥱᥙs ᥱ sᥱᥙ mᥲιor trᥲιdor. Mᥲs sᥲbᥱm ᥲ tᥲᥣ “hιstórιᥲ” dᥱ ᥲ moᥱdᥲ tᥱm doιs ᥣᥲdos? Essᥱ ᥱ́ o ᥣᥲdo dᥱ Dᥱᥙs, o sᥱᥒhor todos ρodᥱroso ᥱ gᥣorιoso!

E o ᥣᥲdo dᥱ Lᥙ́ᥴιfᥱr?

E ᥲ hιstórιᥲ dᥱᥣᥱ?

E ᥲρós ᥲqᥙᥱᥣᥲ qᥙᥱdᥲ?

Lιᥣιth sᥱrιᥲ o oᥙtro ᥣᥲdo dᥲ moᥱdᥲ.

Um sᥱr mᥲgᥒίfιᥴo dᥱ sᥱxo mᥲsᥴᥙᥣιᥒo, mᥲs ᥲ ᥲρᥲrᥱ̂ᥒᥴιᥲ dᥱᥣιᥴᥲdᥲ dᥱ ᥙmᥲ fᥱ̂mᥱᥲ. Os dᥱtᥲᥣhᥱs ᥱrᥲm ᥲtrᥲᥱᥒtᥱs ᥲo ρoᥒto dᥱ fᥲzᥱr o “Sᥱᥒhor dᥲs Trᥱvᥲs” ᥴᥱdᥱr.

Os ᥣᥲ́bιos mᥲᥴιos ᥲo vᥱr, ᥲ ρᥱᥣᥱ sᥙᥲvᥱ ᥱ os fιos rᥱbᥱᥣdᥱs dᥱ sᥱᥙ ᥴᥲbᥱᥣo, o qᥙᥱ torᥒᥲvᥲ Lιᥣιth ᥙm tᥲᥒto ᥲdorᥲ́vᥱᥣ.

O sᥱr dᥱ ᥱstrᥙtᥙrᥲ ᥲgrᥲdᥲ́vᥱᥣ ᥴᥙroᥙ os fᥱrιmᥱᥒtos dᥱ Lᥙ́ᥴιfᥱr ᥱ ᥱᥒtᥲ̃o ᥲᥣι ᥴomᥱçoᥙ ᥙm grᥲᥒdᥱ ᥲmor.

O sᥱᥒhor dᥲs Trᥱvᥲs ᥱ Lιᥣιth ᥱrᥲm rᥱιs do ᥒovo ιᥒfᥱrᥒo ᥴrιᥲdo ρor Lᥙ́ᥴιfᥱr.

Nᥱᥣᥱ hᥲvιᥲm rᥱgrᥲs ᥴᥣᥲrᥲs ᥱ ᥲᥴᥱιtᥲs ρor ᥲmbos.

𖧹⃟ ⃟⸺ ¡Ɍᵾłɇs! ───ཹ✎..

১🍓°᳝ꯥ‧↛ ₁﹣ Tᴏᴅᴏ Fᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ ᴅᴇᴠᴇ ᴛᴇʀ sᴇᴜ Lɪʟɪᴛʜ﹐ ᴀϙᴜᴇʟᴇ ʙʀᴜxᴏ ᴏ ϙᴜᴀʟ ɪʀᴀ́ ʟʜᴇ ғᴀᴢᴇʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʜɪᴀ ᴏ ʀᴇsᴛᴏ ᴅᴀ ᴠɪᴅᴀ.

১🍓°᳝ꯥ‧↛ ₂﹣ O ʟᴀçᴏ ᴇɴᴛʀᴇ ᴜᴍ Lɪʟɪᴛʜ ᴇ ᴜᴍ Fᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ ᴅᴇᴠᴇ sᴇʀ ғᴇɪᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍ sᴀɴɢᴜᴇ ᴇ ᴄᴏᴍ ᴀ ʙᴇɴçᴀ̃ᴏ ᴅᴇ sᴇᴜ Sᴇɴʜᴏʀ.

১🍓°᳝ꯥ‧↛ ₃﹣ Tᴏᴅᴏ Lɪʟɪᴛʜ ᴅᴇᴠᴇ sᴇʀ ᴏʙᴇᴅɪᴇɴᴛᴇ ᴇ sᴇʀᴠɪʀ ᴀᴘᴇɴᴀs ᴀᴏ sᴇᴜ ᴍᴇsᴛʀᴇ﹐ ᴀғɪɴᴀʟ ᴅᴇsᴏʙᴇᴅɪᴇ̂ɴᴄɪᴀ ᴛʀᴀᴢ ᴀᴘᴇɴᴀs ᴅᴇsɢʀᴀçᴀ ᴀᴏ ʟᴀçᴏ ғᴇɪᴛᴏ ᴇɴᴛʀᴇ ᴏ ᴄᴀsᴀʟ.

১🍓°᳝ꯥ‧↛ ₄﹣ O Fᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ ᴘᴏᴅᴇ ᴛᴇʀ ᴍᴀɪs ᴅᴇ ᴜᴍ Lɪʟɪᴛʜ. Mᴀs ᴇssᴇ ᴘʀᴇsᴇɴᴛᴇ ɴᴀ̃ᴏ sᴇʀᴠᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴀ ᴏ Lɪʟɪᴛʜ﹗

১🍓°᳝ꯥ‧↛ ₅﹣ O Lɪʟɪᴛʜ ᴅᴇᴠᴇ sᴇʀ ғɪᴇʟ﹐ ᴄᴀsᴏ ᴏ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀ́ʀɪᴏ ᴏ Fᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ ᴇsᴄᴏʟʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴏ sᴇʀᴀ́ ᴀ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴇ ᴅᴇ sᴇᴜ sᴇʀᴠᴏ.

𖧹⃟ ⃟⸺ ¡꧇⃕💣୭! ───ཹ✎..

2019 ᥱ ᥲs rᥱgrᥲs ᥒo ιᥒfᥱrᥒo ᥲιᥒdᥲ sᥲ̃o ᥲs mᥱsmᥲs, ᥱᥣᥲs forᥲm ᥴomρᥲrtιᥣhᥲdᥲs ᥴom os mortᥲιs ᥱ ᥲρós tᥲᥣ ᥴoιsᥲ..

O sᥲtᥲᥒιsmo sᥱ ᥱsρᥲᥣhoᥙ ρor todo o mᥙᥒdo, ᥴᥲsᥲιs ᥙsᥲrᥲm ᥲs rᥱgrᥲs ᥴomo fᥱtιᥴhᥱs ᥱ oᥙtros ρrᥲtιᥴᥲrᥲm ρᥲrᥲ ᥱᥒtrᥲrᥱm ᥒᥱssᥱ mᥙᥒdo mᥲrᥲvιᥣhoso oᥒdᥱ ᥲ Estrᥱᥣᥲ do Amᥲᥒhᥲ̃ rᥱιᥒᥲvᥲ.

Todos ᥱstᥲmos ᥒᥱssᥲ..

E voᥴᥱ̂?

╾─◍̸ೃ‧ཾ͘ヾ▩⃟🌹⃟◍ཾ͘‧ೃ◍̸─╼

╾જ໋⃝𖡻¡Rules!𖡻⃝જ╼

💣'01─ೋ

಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ɢʀᴜᴘᴏ ᴛᴇxᴛᴜᴀʟ, ᴘᴏʀᴇᴍ, ᴀ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɢᴇᴍ é ᴅᴇ 2 [1 ʟɪʟɪᴛʜ ᴇ 1 ғᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ] ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀɢᴇᴍ ᴘᴏʀ ᴘᴇssᴏᴀ ᴇ sᴇᴍ ᴘᴏssɪʙɪʟɪᴅᴀᴅᴇ ᴅᴇ ᴛʀᴏᴄᴀsᴍ sʜɪᴘᴘ ᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴍʙɪɴᴇᴍ ᴄᴀsᴀʟᴢɪɴʜᴏ, ɪssᴏ ᴠɪʀᴏᴜ ᴜᴍ ᴄᴀɴᴄᴇʀ ɴᴏs ʀᴘɢs.

💣'02─ೋ

಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ǫᴜᴀʟǫᴜᴇʀ ᴛɪᴘᴏ ᴅᴇ ᴅɪᴠᴜʟɢᴀçᴀᴏ ʀᴇsᴜʟᴛᴀʀᴀ ᴇᴍ ʙᴀɴ.

💣'03─ೋ

಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ᴏs ᴄᴀsᴀɪs sᴇʀãᴏ sᴇʟᴇᴄɪᴏɴᴀᴅᴏs ᴘᴏʀ sᴏʀᴛᴇɪᴏ.

ᴅᴇᴘᴏɪs ᴅᴏ ɢʀᴀɴᴅᴇ ᴇᴠᴇɴᴛᴏ ᴅᴇ ᴀᴘʀᴇsᴇɴᴛᴀçãᴏ, ᴏs ᴅᴇᴠɪᴅᴏs ᴄᴀsᴀɪs ᴅᴇᴠᴇᴍ sᴇ ᴇɴᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀʀ ᴇ ʟᴏɢᴏ ᴇɴᴛãᴏ ᴇsᴄᴜᴛᴀʀ ᴀ ᴘᴀʟᴀᴠʀᴀ ᴅᴏ sᴇɴʜᴏʀ ᴅᴀs ᴛʀᴇᴠᴀs, ᴇʟᴀ ɪʀá ɢᴜɪᴀʀ ᴏ ᴘʀᴏxɪᴍᴏ ᴘᴀssᴏ, ᴀ ʟᴜᴘᴇʀᴄáʟɪᴀ.

💣'04─ೋ

಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ᴄᴀsᴏ ᴛᴇɴʜᴀ ᴘʀᴏʙʟᴇᴍᴀs ᴄᴏᴍᴏ ᴘᴏʀ ᴇxᴇᴍᴘʟᴏ, ᴏ ʟɪʟɪᴛʜ ɴãᴏ ᴇsᴛá sᴇ ᴅᴀɴᴅᴏ ʙᴇᴍ ᴄᴏᴍ ᴏ sᴇᴜ ғᴇɪᴛɪᴄᴇɪʀᴏ, ɴãᴏ ᴄʀɪᴇ ʙʀɪɢᴀs.

ᴀᴘᴇɴᴀs ᴄʜᴀᴍᴇ ᴜᴍ ᴅᴏs ᴀᴅᴍ's ᴘᴀʀᴀ ᴇɴᴛãᴏ ʀᴇsᴏʟᴠᴇʀᴍᴏs ɪssᴏ, ғᴀᴢᴇɴᴅᴏ ᴜᴍᴀ ᴍᴜᴅᴀɴçᴀ.

💣'05─ೋ

಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ɴãᴏ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇʀsᴇ ᴍᴜɪᴛᴏ ᴇᴍ ᴏғғ ɴᴏ ɢʀᴜᴘᴏ ᴏɴ.

sᴇ ᴛɪᴠᴇʀ ᴀʟɢᴜᴍ ᴅᴜᴠɪᴅᴀ, ᴏ ɢʀᴜᴘᴏ ᴏғғ ᴇsᴛá ᴀᴏ sᴇᴜ ᴅɪsᴘᴏʀ, ᴀʟéᴍ ᴅᴏs ᴄʜᴀᴛs ᴅᴇ ᴄᴀᴅᴀ ᴀᴅᴍ.

sᴇ ǫᴜɪsᴇʀ ᴅᴇʙᴀᴛᴇʀ sᴏʙʀᴇ sᴇᴜ ᴄᴏᴜᴘʟᴇ, ғᴀçᴀ ɪssᴏ ɴᴏ ᴘʀɪᴠᴀᴅᴏ ᴄᴏᴍ ᴏ sᴇᴜ ᴘᴀʀᴄᴇɪʀᴏ.

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಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ᴍᴘʀᴇɢ (ɢʀᴀᴠɪᴅᴇᴢ ᴍᴀsᴄᴜʟɪɴᴀ) sᴇʀá ᴘᴇʀᴍɪᴛɪᴅᴀ ᴅᴇᴘᴏɪs ᴅᴇ ᴅᴜᴀs sᴇᴍᴀɴᴀs ᴇ ᴏ ᴍáxɪᴍᴏ é ᴅᴇ 3 ᴄʀɪᴀɴçᴀs ᴘᴏʀ ᴄᴀsᴀʟ, ɴãᴏ ᴛʀᴀɴsғᴏʀᴍᴇ ɪssᴏ ᴀǫᴜɪ ᴇᴍ ᴜᴍᴀ ᴄʀᴇᴄʜᴇ.

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಼ೊ̸ྀ꒱➛ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏ ǫᴜᴇ ᴀ ғɪᴄʜᴀ ᴅᴇᴠᴇ sᴇʀ ᴇɴᴛʀᴇɢᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴀ.

ᴇ sɪᴍ ᴏʙʀɪɢᴀᴛóʀɪᴏ ᴏ ᴜsᴏ ᴅᴀ ᴘᴀʟᴀᴠʀᴀ-ᴄʜᴀᴠᴇ [🗝], ғɪᴄʜᴀs sᴇᴍ ᴀ ᴛᴀʟ ᴘᴀʟᴀᴠʀᴀ ᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴍ ᴇʟᴀ ᴇʀʀᴀᴅᴀ ɴãᴏ sᴇʀãᴏ ᴀᴄᴇɪᴛᴀs ᴇ ᴘᴇʀɢᴜɴᴛᴀs ǫᴜᴇ ᴊá ғᴏʀᴀᴍ ʀᴇsᴘᴏɴᴅɪᴅᴀs ᴀǫᴜɪ sᴇʀãᴏ ɪɢɴᴏʀᴀᴅᴀs.

ᴀ ᴘᴀʟᴀᴠʀᴀ-ᴄʜᴀᴠᴇ é ɴᴇᴄᴇssáʀɪᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴀ sᴀʙᴇʀ ǫᴜᴇ ᴠᴏᴄᴇ ʟᴇᴜ ᴏ ᴘʟᴏᴛ ɪɴᴛᴇɪʀᴏ.

_[🗝 - ᴘ'ᴀʀᴀᴅɪsᴇ.]_

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More Than Bookstores, These Shops are Must-visit Meccas to the Printed Word

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly 211 Rue Bernard O, Montréal, QC H2T 2K5, Canada

For the comic and graphic novel enthusiast, Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly is a revered pilgrimage site. The thriving store is the physical location of world famous graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly, stocking its own titles as well as books produced by other international alt-presses, like McSweeneys, Fantagraphics, Koyama, New Directions, Breakdown Press, and more. There’s no other place in the world so comprehensive. Whether you’re a comic regular or new to the scene, you’ll be drawn in and swept away by the varied illustration styles and innovative visual storytelling on draft.

Art Metropole, Toronto 88 King St. West, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, M5V1N6, Canada

This legendary, artist-run non-profit publishes, distributes, and exhibits artists’ publications and other materials. Founded in 1974 by Canadian artist collective General Idea, Art Metropole has always been on the cutting edge of Toronto’s artistic community. Here, you’ll find video, audio, and electronic media carefully set beside bespoke books and thoughtful printed matter on conceptual art, which you can read in between viewings of Art Metropole’s must-see exhibitions and installations.

Penguin Shop 320 Front Street West, Toronto, Canada, M5V 3B6 

Here’s one for the committed collector of Penguin Classics, that famous sixpenny, orange-spined series that has become a 20th-century design icon. Penguin Random House’s first permanent shop is here in the lobby of its Canadian headquarters. It’s packed with 300 titles, branded mugs, notebooks, and brightly colored tees. Toronto-based design studio Figure3 created mobile bookshelving for the tiny space, designed to mimic classic Penguin spines. Better still, company staff—both editors and designers—work the store. Go pick a Penguin.

William Stout Architectural Books 804 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA

Carrying over 70,000 titles in the fields of architecture, graphic and industrial design and urban planning, William Stout Architectural Books is a vital United States resource for anyone in the creative industry. This space was founded 30 years ago when a former architect decided that the US needed a place that stocked the hard to find tomes he appreciated in Europe. Design professionals will let out heartfelt sighs of admiration as they flip through the rare compendiums that they find here.

Hennessey + Ingalls 300 S Santa Fe Ave M, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA

Since 1963, Hennessey + Ingalls has been Southern California’s largest and most extensive source for books on all things visual. With thousands of art, interior design, graphics, photography, fashion, gardening, and decorative art books, you’re sure to find anything specific that you’re looking for in this 5,000-square-foot space. In 2016, the shop relocated its entire operation to downtown LA, closing its Santa Monica and Hollywood stores, to become one of the major go-tos in the city’s rapidly developing Arts District. 

Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books 2916 N.E. Alberta St., Portland, OR 97211

Old and new beautifully collide in this essential Portland destination, a shop and gallery admired by creative locals for its intriguing mix of contemporary design books and vintage postcards, photographs, and other scraps of inspiring antique ephemera. On this snug spot’s walls you’ll find a monthly rotation of contemporary artworks by local artists and illustrators; and below, a tightly packed inventory of titles are aligned tidily in square wooden shelving units. Between bright tempting books on the functionality of decorated letters or contemporary Polaroid art, you might spy a copy of our very own 99U magazine. Nothing average here.

Dallas’ Joule Hotel, The Taschen Library 1530 Main St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA

Stay at the Joule Hotel in Dallas for some basic rest and recreation, but the smart boutique hotel’s Taschen Library will really send you places. The German publishing company, famous for its collectable books on art, photography, interior design, architecture, film, and fashion, curated this small, cozy shop in 2013, just by the Texan hotel’s lobby. It’s been called the “Joule’s jewel box of a bookshop”. re you’ll find items with a jewel’s price tag too, with some volumes ranging reaching up to $1,000+. Quite a trip.

Image courtesy of Dallas’ Joule Hotel, The Taschen Library.

Graham Foundation Bookshop 4 W Burton Pl, Chicago, IL 60610, USA

Located on the premises of a prestigious art foundation, this bookstore offers a selection of publications produced by grantees along with titles related to its public programming, as well as new forward-thinking books on architecture, urbanism, and design. It also carries monographs, catalogues, and theory-based titles from the likes of Sternberg Press, MIT Press, Spector Books, and the Architectural Association. Designers will swoon at the shop’s white mesh display cases, which snake around the wood paneled room, designed by architect Ania Jaworska.

Horse & Buggy Press and Friends 1116 Broad St, Durham, NC 27705

If you’re in Durham and find yourself pining for some traditional, hand-cranked letterpress goodies, you’re in luck. Look no further than the Horse & Buggy Press and Friends. Two sturdy 1960s Vandercook proof presses sit at the bank of this charming graphic design and book production studio, and at the front of the 500-square foot location, you’ll discover an art gallery and gift-shop (presumably constituting the “…and Friends”). The store showcases work by industrious craftspeople from across the Southeast—whether glass and pottery or printmaking and drawings. There’s also a top-notch selection of books and magazines about all things craft based. Craft enthusiasts who make it there will find plenty to share.

Ooga Booga 943 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA 

No “best bookstore for designers list” is complete without the cultish Ooga Booga, a hidden away second floor shop in LA’s Chinatown that carries a ramshackle mix of books, zines, mixtapes, records, home goods, and apparel. The store programs—from concerts and film screenings to much-anticipated book releases—in its second location, known as Ooga Twooga and located in the art space 356 Mission. You owe it to yourself to boogie on down to Ooga Booga whenever you can.

Actual Source 50 E 500 N Suite 103, Provo, UT 84606, USA

Those with an eye for the deadpan and heavily typographic will undoubtedly find what they’re looking for here. Actual Source is the collaborative design practice of Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie, and together they create publications, identities, websites, and spaces. But Actual Source also ambitiously collaborates with designers to release limited edition books, magazines, fonts, clothing, and furniture, which they sell at their office space in Provo and online. In the mood for experimental type specimens, that look like no other specimen you’ve ever seen, or a contemporary magazine musing on the Bauhaus? Look no further.

Image courtesy of Actual Source.

Ulises 31 E Columbia Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA

This Philly bookshop was named after the conceptual book artist and theorist Ulises Carrión, who once said, “a book is a sequence of spaces”. The shop’s owners have taken this idea literally, carefully planning how each book is displayed in the warehouse-style interior of the store. Bookshelves mounted to the wall show off carefully selected tomes like precious paintings, with their covers facing outwards.

Artland Book Company B1 #122 Jen Ai Road, Sec. 3, Taipei, 10657, Taiwan

This special Taiwanese store has been importing art books from around the world since 1985—making it a global go-to for artists, designers, and art lovers. Stocked from floor to ceiling with weighty art tomes, Artland offers paper-y compendiums on everything from seashells and gardens to Renaissance painting and Taiwanese traditional folk art. Books are arranged in a sleek and modern space, and you’re sure to leave with a new coffee table book (or two).

Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo, Japan 17-5 Sarugakucho, Shibuya 150-0033, Tokyo Prefecture

If you’re a contemporary Japanese design enthusiast, then T-Site is not to be missed. In a gorgeous modern building, designed from T-shaped bricks, you’ll discover a crisp and unusual selection of design and lifestyle books and products. The stores’ curators match books with other items with pleasing care: one blogger has recounted how beside a recipe book for Japanese shaved ice, the store sells locally produced glasses to house the dessert; next to tomes on obscure psychedelic illustrators, you’ll apparently find matching tea cup sets; beside books on historical artists, you’ll discover a series of figurines inspired by them. If the afternoon isn’t enough time to make all your discoveries, you’re in luck: this shop is open until 2am.

Basheer Graphic Books Bras Basah Complex #04-19, 231 Bain St, Singapore 180231

You’ll find this legendary store in the Bras Basah Complex of Singapore, a mall area with the largest number of bookstores in a single complex in the country. Catering specifically to designers and artists, it’s here you’ll be able to find any book from any discipline that you’re looking for, whether calligraphy, animation, interior design, or graphics. Get lost in this creative community haunt to find what you’re looking for.

The Book Society 22 Jahamun-ro 10-gil, Sajik-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea

There is no better place to find books designed and published by graphic designers for graphic designers than this South Korean independent shop and publishing house. One might go so far as to say it is a wonderland of design. Bold, purple posters fill the walls. Tables are stacked high with curiously bound publications of every color imaginable. Those with a love of experimental typography and unusual paper stocks will feel right at home. Deeply informed by the use of printed materials by conceptual artists of the 1960s, The Book Society is interested in printed matter as both cultural artifact and network.

Art & Design Bookstore, Mumbai 04 Ramnimi, Mandlik Road, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, India

A five-minute walk through the Kalaghoda art precinct, which houses historical museums and art galleries, you’ll spot this small boutique, which is stacked with striking design volumes. Elegantly tiled floors and sturdy shelving make this space perfect for some contemplation. Take your time taking in the eclectic journals from all around the world as well as catalogues by local artists. For practicing designers inspired by what they find, the store also sells artisan notebooks and sketchbooks.

Minoa Vişnezade Mahallesi, Süleyman Seba Cd. 52/A, 34357 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, Turkey

Make sure you have plenty of time when you visit Minoa. In this bookstore and café, a whole day can pass by without you even noticing. Hours might be spent browsing the political comics from Turkey’s thriving new comic scene, or peeling back the pages of sleek architecture compendiums situated under the store’s great chandelier, which are adorned with books. Minoa organizes regular reading events and pop-up concerts, which you can enjoy with a glass of Turkish wine or an intense expresso. We also hear that the breakfast shakshouka is very good. See you in a week. 

Happy Valley 294 Smith St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia 

This concept store in the heart of Melbourne’s thriving creative neighborhood caters to the design-minded with its impressive array of art books, modern homeware, and specially selected stationary. You might leave Happy Valley with a classic coffee-table-sized book on Australia’s contemporary gardens and a matching terrarium, or you might be more attracted to the latest Monocle guide and a sea-scented candle. Happy Valley is the ideal place to mix and match your books with your lifestyle.

Perimeter Books, Melbourne 748 High St, Thornbury VIC 3071, Australia

Celebrating independent publishing is what Perimeter Books says it’s all about. Focusing on small press titles, well-crafted design books, and home-grown zines, this clean and bright treasure trove is a go-to for the book-lover meets minimalist. Simple wooden shelves present books with their covers pointed outwards, so that each beautifully produced tome is akin to an objects d’art itself.

Do You Read Me?! Auguststraße 28, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Wandering the German capital, you’ll perhaps notice the number of people with typographic tote bags reading “Do You Read Me?!” slung over their shoulders. Those with an eye for design should take heed and follow the signs. They will lead you to the bellwether of independent magazine retail, Do You Read Me?!, founded by graphic designer, Mark Kiessling and store manager, Jessica Reitz. At the front of the shop, black walls with black shelving show off each carefully selected magazine as if it were an artwork. At the back, there’s a small yet intelligently curated selection of specialist design and architecture books. Not to be missed, and yes, we read you.

Image courtesy of Do You Read Me?!

Motto Skalitzer Str. 68, 10997 Berlin, Germany

Hidden in the back of a typical Berlin courtyard and traceable by the sound of experimental music streaming from its door, Motto is filled with singular finds. Its selection is especially on point because Motto the store belongs to Motto the distribution company, which spreads art catalogues and independent periodicals worldwide. The shop’s focus is on photography, design, theory, and art books, and at the back of its Kreuzberg location you’ll also find a curious selection of zines (and possibly the store’s snoozing black cat). Niche titles sit alongside titles released by international publishers, are scattered in an order that, wonderfully, seems to lack any rhyme or reason.

IMS Melkmarkt Melkmarkt 17, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Located in Antwerp’s historic city center is IMS Melkmarkt: a magazine store reckoned to stock over 10,000 titles. If that sounds like a lot of magazines to fit into one place, that’s because it is. You won’t find much empty space in this wonderfully jam-packed store. It stocks stimulating international titles from all over, seemingly including anything you set your heart on. If you fancy a trip, bring the whole family: there’s a section of train themed magazines here for granddad, a tattoo section for your niece, and a little collection of potted plant books for the estranged cousin who has just got into landscape gardening.

Chandal Carrer d’en Tantarantana, 16, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Those who visit Chandal say it’s like a visit to the past, in a good way. This retro concept shop specializes in Polaroid cameras, records, and..

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How to Let Go of the Thoughts that Cause Depression

Depression is different from other illnesses in that, in addition to the physiological symptoms (loss of appetite, nervousness, sleeplessness, fatigue), there are the accompanying thoughts that can be so incredibly painful. For example, when my Raynaud’s flares up, the numbness in my fingers can be uncomfortable, but it doesn’t tell me that I am worthless, pathetic, and that things will never ever get better. During severe depressive episodes, however, these thoughts can be life-threatening: They insist that the only way out of the pain is to leave this world.

Being able to manage our thought stream will direct us toward health, as our thoughts are constantly communicating with the various systems of our body, either sending certain glands or organs an SOS in distress, or a note that everything is fine, resulting in calm. But being able to harness this craziness in the midst of depression and anxiety is so very difficult.

Here are some of the ways I try to let go of the thoughts that cause depression and anxiety. Some days I am much more successful than others.

Identify the Distortions

I have benefited immensely from David Burns’ book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy — from doing the cognitive behavioral therapy exercises he prescribes to identifying the various distortions in my own thinking that he presents in his book and his workbook. They include:

All-or-nothing thinking – I look at things in absolute, black-and-white categories.

Overgeneralization – I view a negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.

Mental filter – Dwelling on the negatives and ignore the positives.

Discounting the positives – Insisting that my accomplishments or positive qualities don’t count (my college diploma was a stroke of luck … really, it was).

Jumping to conclusions – I conclude things are bad without any definite evidence. These include mind reading (assuming that people are reacting negatively to you) and fortune telling (predicting that things will turn out badly).

Magnification or minimization – I blow things way out of proportion or shrink their importance.

Emotional reasoning – Reasoning from how I feel: “I feel like an idiot, so I must be one.”

“Should” statements – I criticize myself or other people with “shoulds,” “shouldn’ts,” “musts,” “oughts,” and “have-tos.”

Labeling – Instead of saying, “I made a mistake,” I tell myself, “I’m a jerk” or “I’m a loser.”

Blame – Blaming myself for something I wasn’t entirely responsible for, or blaming other people and overlook ways that I contributed to a problem.

It doesn’t take long to identify one or more of these in your thinking. Just recognizing these traps can be helpful. You might then try one of the methods listed in Burns’ 15 Ways to Untwist Your Thinking. A warning, though: I’d wait until you have emerged from a severe depressive episode before you attempt some of these exercises. I’ve made the mistake of trying too hard to “fix” my thinking during severe depression, which has made it worse. It’s better to focus on the other ways listed below.

Focus on the Present

Although every self-help book I read touches on this, I am just beginning to really learn what it means to focus on the present and to appreciate the healing power of mindfulness, which, according to meditation teacher and bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, is “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” If we continue to practice this, he explains, “this kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of the present-moment reality.” It’s not that we don’t feel the hurt, rage, and sadness that lives at the surface of our minds. It’s not an attempt to escape all the suffering that is there. But if we can observe all of our projections into the past and future — and all of the judgments that are part of our thought stream — and simply get back to what is happening right now, right here, we can allow a little room between our thoughts and our reality. With some awareness, we can begin to detach from the stories that we spin and from the commentaries that are so often feeding our pain.

One of the best ways we stay present is by keeping our attention on our breath. Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh instructs us that with each in-breath, we might say, “Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in.” And with each out-breath, “Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.” In his book You Are Here, he explains that mindful breathing is a kind of bridge that brings the body and the mind together. We start by this simple gesture of watching our breath, and then by this mindfulness of breath we begin to stich the body and mind together and generate a calm that will penetrate both.

Apply Self-Compassion

“Self-compassion doesn’t eradicate pain or negative experiences,” Kristin Neff, PhD, explains in her book Self-Compassion. “It just embraces them with kindness and gives them space to transform on their own.” It gives us the “calm courage needed to face our unwanted emotions head-on.” When I’m in the most pain — especially during a severe depressive episode — it is self-compassion more than anything else (cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, mindful breathing, etc.) that saves me and restores me to sanity. Nhat Hanh says that we should treat our depression tenderly, as we would treat a child. He writes:

If you feel irritation or depression or despair, recognize their presence and practice this mantra: “Dear one, I am here for you.” You should talk to your depression or your anger just as you would to a child. You embrace it tenderly with the energy of mindfulness and say, “Dear one, I know you are there, and I am going to take care of you,” just as you would with your crying baby.

It is so easy to be so cruel to ourselves without even realizing it. The ruminations that are part of depression beat us down and shred us until there is practically nothing there. That’s why it is so critical to apply self-compassion from the start, and treat ourselves, as well as our depression, as the scared little child that needs comforting, not scorn.

Acknowledge the Transience of Things

One of my favorite prayers is St. Teresa of Avila’s “Bookmark” that says:

Let nothing disturb you,

Let nothing frighten you,

All things are passing;

God only is changeless.

Patience gains all things.

Who has God wants nothing.

God alone suffices.

If the religious language bothers you, Eckhart Tolle says much the same when he writes in A New Earth:

Once you see and accept the transience of all things and the inevitability of change, you can enjoy the pleasures of the world while they last without fear of loss or anxiety about the future. When you are detached, you gain a higher vantage point from which to view the event in your life instead of being trapped inside them.

Absolutely everything, especially our feelings and emotions, is impermanent. By simply remembering that nothing ever stays, I am freed from the suffocating thoughts of my depression — the formidable fear that this sadness will always be with me, as well as the circumstances that are causing it. By acknowledging the transience of life, I am again called to pay attention to the present moment, where there is more peace and calm than I think.

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Originally posted on Sanity Break at Everyday Health.

from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/04/30/how-to-let-go-of-the-thoughts-that-cause-depression/