"A Theory of Cultural Heritage. Beyond The Intangible" by Salvador Muñoz-Viñas (Routledge, 2023).
If you are interested in having an overview of what it is and how to define what we call "cultural heritage", I recommend this book by my colleague Salvador Muñoz Viñas.
SHARP PRIVATE EYE thriller follows a detective and his childhood best friend, now an investigative reporter, to Mexico on the trail of a seasoned criminal. Lots of relatable characters and some great descriptions. SOLID B
Once again Ralphy and his friend Jackson Johnson team up to help children understand their feelings. Today is the first day of school and some of the students do not feel good : some are scared, anxious or sad. The dogs do their best to help the children feel better, offering them advice to feel better.
Book post!... 'Witchwater' by G. M. Wilson (Robert Hale, 1961).
'The wild black cat streaking over the desolate, frost-bound marshes of Norfolk—is it a stray, or a witch's familiar? A stray, says Inspector Lovick emphatically. But the cat is wearing the same silver collar that Old Mother Daw's cat wore at Witchwater a century ago... '
A child has died and two women have been attacked, and Lovick and John Crawford are on the hunt for a witch.
"Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone" by Kavita Singh (2015).
"But think for a moment of the history of museums. Think of the way their collections have been built, and the purposes they have served. Think of the violent encounters that often lay behind the collecting of curiosities in the age of exploration; or think of the museums built by missionaries to display pagan gods wrenched away from natives. Think of the vast collections built (and the ways these were built) during the age of colonialism, with entire monuments transported across the seas and re-erected in museum galleries. Think of the nations transformed by revolutions, where treasures were violently wrested away from the church and presented as desacralized avatars in museums".
Just finished it. Written by a UK researcher and it is interesting. Cats are still cats but they are interesting! I liked it. #cats#nonfiction#book@bookstodon
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SHIMMERING, GORGEOUS, WISTFUL meditation on life, love, art, and loss set against the surreal cityscape of New York in the 2020 COVID lockdown. Everything is vivid, everything feels deeply true. A MINUS
Today's release: Kim Fielding's MM holiday fantasy romance Regifted:
It’s December, and although Chrys Carvalho loves his home among the trees in the California Sierras, he’s a little lonely. While trying to find a new owner for a motorcycle—gifted by Chrys to his late husband—he meets ...
A BIZARRE, CULTISH COMMUNE, centered around some extreme psychoanalytic theories, hiding in plain sight in Manhattan brownstones, with adherents as famous as Judy Collins and Jackson Pollock. Intensive research and interviews tell a wild story. A MINUS
My whole life I’ve been into geography and yet — after 50+ trips around the Sun — it was like two weeks ago that I learned that Appalachia is pronounced Appa-LATCH-ia … not Appa-LAY-chia 🤦🏾♂️
Also, Y’ALL (Young Appalachian Leaders and Learners) apparently got issues with JD Vance’s best-selling #book “Hillbilly Elegy”
Today's release: Aaron Frale's queer LitRPG fantasy: My Three-Year-Old is a Barbarian and Other Parenting Problems.
Necromantic rituals, murderous ogres, battle-scarred rangers: not a typical Saturday detention for unsuspecting teaching assistant, Petra, and her delinquent teen charges. The Beaverton High School Breakfast Club...
Today's review! Barnabas Bopwright Saves the City by J. Marshall Freeman:
"Excellent writing, believable, relatable characters, a delightful coming-of-age story... Filled with adventure and angst, and a lovely cast of characters who were relatable, believable, and very charming."
Today's release: AJ White's queer YA fantasy Shard de Voor.
Their queen missing, the allied kingdoms of Sanquous have forged an uneasy alliance with the Ilfannde as war rages across the land. Far away, in another realm, a young woman awakens to find her memory gone, along with her freedom. Who is her mysterious saviour...
Best of 2023 from Candlewick Press ! Check all the beautiful picture books, middle grade and YA novels they published this year ! I love their books so much 😍
I am running a #free#book sale on "The Screw Turns" Volume 3 from Wed, Nov 29 at 12:00 AM PST to Sun, Dec 3 at 11:59 PM PST
This is a collection of #shortstories that are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw", and are a little bit #noire, somewhat murdery, and a lot of schadenfreude.