What I’m doing Wednesday
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writerlibrarianHealth stuff
Much, much better. I do not want to cut off my right leg. Which is nice.
Teacher stuff
I'm teaching a class later today. We are talking about writing book annotations. For bibliographies, critics, book recommendations, etc. Mostly based on Joyce Saricks' works in Reader's advisory field. Here are two short articles she wrote for BookList on "Annotation writing" and "Writing about books" if you are curious. It's what we do almost every day here on our blogs, book social platforms like Goodreads, Librarything, Listy, The Storygraph. I went with the basic structure: introduction, turning point, climax and conclusion, less than 250 words. I could have chosen less than 150 words but they are novice for most of them in writing that kind of work. It reminded me of the times fandom was on a drabble spree.
100 words, no more, no less .
I'm a product of university studies from the 1980s. I studied French literature with professors that had been teaching for at least a few decades. I learned to write essays, critics, annotation through the structuralism theories and formalist narratology. Hence, Genette, Barthes, Todorov and Vladimir Propp.
I'm still working on my Holmes, greek myths retelling, remix, etc. class with a side trip through Public domain. I got lost into a rabbit hole that opened looking through the journal of Transformative Works. I had no idea Anna Todd's After was originally a RPF about Harry Styles. Consider me surprised and not surprised, LOL
I've played with Adobe Firefly, AI created images and video from text. It's ethically better than the rest of the things available. I want to see if I can remix all the version of Holmes in a short video. I played with an anime style first. You need to be logged in Bluesky to see it.
Reading
Mon très cher F, Le fantôme de l'opéra 2 by Mio Nanao. It took a violent dominator villain twist I did not see coming.
The apothecary diaries V.5 Still addicted. I have to wait like two weeks before getting V.6 in French from my library. Then V.7 is coming out only in May in French. So i'm switching to the English edition (it's volume 8 in English, the French put v.1 and v.2 together), it's coming out early March. I'll have to read the rest in ebook after that.
L'affaire du rideau bleu (Les Quatre de Baker Street #1) by Djian, Legrand and Etien. Comics about side characters in Holmes' universe that revolves around Sherlock's street urchins gang. It's not for children, mature themes, violence, etc. But interesting. I like the collection title : The Baker Street Fourth.
Watching
I'm almost done with Unveil: Jadewind (29/34), the investigating cases were interesting, both leads are good. I'm not sure about the bad guys yet.
Crafting
I'm about a third done with my red fox.
Much, much better. I do not want to cut off my right leg. Which is nice.
Teacher stuff
I'm teaching a class later today. We are talking about writing book annotations. For bibliographies, critics, book recommendations, etc. Mostly based on Joyce Saricks' works in Reader's advisory field. Here are two short articles she wrote for BookList on "Annotation writing" and "Writing about books" if you are curious. It's what we do almost every day here on our blogs, book social platforms like Goodreads, Librarything, Listy, The Storygraph. I went with the basic structure: introduction, turning point, climax and conclusion, less than 250 words. I could have chosen less than 150 words but they are novice for most of them in writing that kind of work. It reminded me of the times fandom was on a drabble spree.
100 words, no more, no less .
I'm a product of university studies from the 1980s. I studied French literature with professors that had been teaching for at least a few decades. I learned to write essays, critics, annotation through the structuralism theories and formalist narratology. Hence, Genette, Barthes, Todorov and Vladimir Propp.
I'm still working on my Holmes, greek myths retelling, remix, etc. class with a side trip through Public domain. I got lost into a rabbit hole that opened looking through the journal of Transformative Works. I had no idea Anna Todd's After was originally a RPF about Harry Styles. Consider me surprised and not surprised, LOL
I've played with Adobe Firefly, AI created images and video from text. It's ethically better than the rest of the things available. I want to see if I can remix all the version of Holmes in a short video. I played with an anime style first. You need to be logged in Bluesky to see it.
Reading
Mon très cher F, Le fantôme de l'opéra 2 by Mio Nanao. It took a violent dominator villain twist I did not see coming.
The apothecary diaries V.5 Still addicted. I have to wait like two weeks before getting V.6 in French from my library. Then V.7 is coming out only in May in French. So i'm switching to the English edition (it's volume 8 in English, the French put v.1 and v.2 together), it's coming out early March. I'll have to read the rest in ebook after that.
L'affaire du rideau bleu (Les Quatre de Baker Street #1) by Djian, Legrand and Etien. Comics about side characters in Holmes' universe that revolves around Sherlock's street urchins gang. It's not for children, mature themes, violence, etc. But interesting. I like the collection title : The Baker Street Fourth.
Watching
I'm almost done with Unveil: Jadewind (29/34), the investigating cases were interesting, both leads are good. I'm not sure about the bad guys yet.
Crafting
I'm about a third done with my red fox.
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