Yesterday, I went with my less-than enthusiastic SO to a pub-type quiz about #Italy. We realised there that it was all done on mobile phones, & ours were too old for it. We teamed up with someone we knew with the right gear & came 3rd🎉😁 We could have been 1st or 2nd if not for some technical issues... We received a gift voucher for a local Italian deli, and we got to eat some delicious vegetarian appetizers.
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“Allegorical figures were extremely popular at the time; actors and actresses representing Divine Justice, Holy Religion, and Saintly Sacrifice would declaim onstage and then fly straight up to heaven.”
#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
pickI found this story/writing quite interesting. Written 80 years ago, it‘s the story of a guy who shows no emotion towards anything; his mother‘s death, his girlfriend, a murder. He just wakes up each day and goes through the motions of life. Today, he may be considered neurodivergent. Eighty years ago was a very different time. I paired #FoodandLit with Chorba Bayda, an Algerian chicken soup. Delicious!
“In Ibn Khaldun's lifetime, in the 14th century, the Kingdom of France is submerged by the English's new Bedouin wave, according to his short account of the Hundred Years' War as it was told to him in Spain.“
The English as Bedouins 😂 It makes sense given his view of the world, his philosophy, & the info he had, but the mental image is funny to me. I almost want to feed it to an AI image generator
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#WeeklyForecast 48/25
A #ToB26 week! I am reading and enjoying Lion and listening to Emperor of Gladness, which I am not enjoying at all. Next will be the tagged book, that everyone seems to hate but I already bought it and am curious to see what I‘ll think.
Forbidden Notebook (in Dutch) is my choice for #FoodAndLit (Italy).
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I can contemplate this for another week and still second-guess myself, so I'll submit this list as my nominations. I mostly went with countries whose books are on my shelves to help narrow it down.
These are the books I'll be working on for this challenge. 2 of them are for #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks #Italy
#SnowyDecemberReadathon
I've been wanting to read Ibn Khaldun for ages, & when I noticed the tagged book on my library's website, I thought #FoodAndLit would be a good opportunity. It's always difficult to pinpoint a country for authors born before modern nation states, esp. when they moved around a lot (just look on the map at all the places he lived in!) but as he wrote his most famous book while living with Bedouins in #Algeria, it sort of works.
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Tagged is the book I was planning on borrowing from the library & starting this week as one of my #10BeforeTheEnd, but it's been taken off the shelves, so I'l have to buy it... (edited) 2h