tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52708738068353129422024-03-16T18:52:38.806+00:00Story CommentsTiny reviews, comments, and quotes from all kinds of stories.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706923811031669326noreply@blogger.comBlogger401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-44907614634844019562023-09-02T11:26:00.000+01:002023-09-02T11:26:36.231+01:00The Story of More, Our Story Begins<br />"All human beings are a lot better at describing what is happening than at predicting what will happen. Somewhere along the way, however, we began to hope that scientists were different - that they could be right all the time. And because they're not, we kind of stopped listening."Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706923811031669326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-88717973703999124472023-07-20T19:32:00.000+01:002023-07-20T19:32:05.417+01:00Under the Sky We Make<br />
"We are living under the sky we make. We have made it with our behaviour, and we can remake it that way too."<div><br /></div><div>Finally opened my eyes to what is actually happening to this planet (what we've done to it) and it's terrifying but it's not too late, not yet.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-79299991802554472042022-02-28T14:02:00.002+00:002023-07-20T19:32:48.806+01:00Crocuses Emerge from Damp Soil<br />
<i>But there is hope in it. Crocuses, beloved as early harbingers of spring, stand out, a little pool of brightness in a sea of drab. That combination of rich purple and zinging orange is an antidote to gloom.</i><div><br /></div><div>I hope you can find some crocuses this week.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-83027554313668197612022-02-22T22:22:00.003+00:002022-02-22T22:56:41.676+00:00Anne with an E, episode 3.5<br />Miss Stacy: I can assure you no one will become pregnant from dancing.<div><br /></div><div>Ruby: But there was so much touching!</div><div><br /></div><div>Miss Stacy: That's not how it works, it's not...topical.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-54282517135501766002022-02-04T10:07:00.002+00:002022-02-28T14:02:08.163+00:00Clear Light Shines Through Mist<br />
<i>Spring is round the corner, but the corner is long.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-13245254222278362282022-01-18T13:49:00.003+00:002022-01-18T13:59:49.945+00:00English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Progress<br />
Read the whole book.<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>new farming had taken two mutually beneficial things - grazing animals and fertilizing fields - and separated them to create two massive industrial-scale problems ... farms with thousands of animals had more muck than their land could possibly accommodate, while crop farmers now had no animals, and thus no muck to fertilize plants</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/English-Pastoral/9780141982571/?a_aid=storycomments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-20158342945750607652022-01-17T11:49:00.004+00:002022-01-18T13:59:17.614+00:00English Pastoral: An Inheritance, Nostalgia<br />
Read the whole book.<div><br /></div><div><i>As I sat in the back of the tractor watching the seagulls, it felt as if Grandad and the seagulls behind his plough were part of the same whole, the one as true as the other. They both had timeless claims on the earth; they both belonged to the same cycle in that landscape.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/English-Pastoral/9780141982571/?a_aid=storycomments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-32335363716410025202022-01-15T11:45:00.006+00:002022-01-18T13:57:56.827+00:00Lab Girl<div><br /></div><div>Just popping this book on my wishlist.</div><br /><div><i>A plant that lives where it should not is simply a pest, but a plant that thrives where it should not live is a weed. We don't resent the audacity of the weed, as every seed is audacious; we resent its fantastic success.</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-82670665227935811352020-12-17T13:36:00.001+00:002020-12-17T13:36:00.433+00:00Art & Fear, Chapter I<i><br />
In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-91010562974925091772020-12-16T13:22:00.003+00:002020-12-16T13:22:23.332+00:00Art & Fear, Introduction<br />
<i>Making art is a common and intimately human activity, filled with all the perils (and rewards) that accompany any worthwhile effort. The difficulties artmakers face are not remote and heroic, but universal and familiar.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-41505779545536699482020-07-10T08:55:00.001+01:002020-12-16T13:22:49.559+00:00The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency, Chapter 1<br />
Cows are not the problem with our world. Over-farming of cows is. Over-farming of everything is. Cows are great for the planet when done properly.<div><br /></div><div>"It is no secret that rotting cow manure is the very best source of 'humus' which will make your garden give a bumper disease-free harvest. The cow is nature's superb storehouse of beneficial bacteria which magically transform grass into protein."</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-21495755677879658022020-07-09T22:38:00.002+01:002023-07-20T19:49:48.400+01:00The Concise Guide to Self-Sufficiency, Chapter 1I always wondered why I couldn't find my 'one thing'.<br /><div><br /></div><div>"We were not meant to be a one-job animal. We do not thrive as parts of a machine. We are intended by nature to be diverse, to do diverse things, to have many skills."</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-78492569559511432532020-06-01T03:38:00.000+01:002020-06-01T03:38:33.801+01:00Lewis, episode 7.1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Just because I'm uncomfortable with it, doesn't make it wrong."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-59167115581044804442020-06-01T00:43:00.002+01:002020-06-01T00:43:17.825+01:00Lewis, episode 6.3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"He's good with kids, used to be one himself."</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-49050387418057312142020-05-13T14:44:00.000+01:002020-05-13T14:44:02.322+01:00walkhighlands.co.uk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ever find yourself poking around the Internet, pursuing mere notions of interest, only to discover glistening gems of sentences?<br />
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<i>On the summit of Ben Hee, with a cloud bank surfing over rock-swell and waves of snow-sharpened ridges and summits heaving up close by, I saw the three coasts of Scotland. </i><br />
<i><br /></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">[<a href="https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/who-goes-there-mapping-extreem-wildernes/0018781">https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/who-goes-there-mapping-extreem-wildernes/0018781</a>]</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-77706665129274706002020-04-30T14:58:00.000+01:002020-04-30T14:58:49.360+01:00ReWild, chapter 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>...since it is the sun we're talking about, when we're slowly rolled away from it...</i><br />
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This is, first, a beautiful book, much nicer than the pictures. It's also lovely to read. It sounds like Nick Baker is just sitting opposite you, chatting away, full of passion and information.<br />
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<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/ReWild-Nick-Baker/9781781316559/?a_aid=storycomments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-22376720310904592872020-04-29T17:04:00.004+01:002020-04-29T18:50:28.249+01:00Oxventure Presents: Exhibition Impossible, Episode 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Egbert rolls a d6 how many times, tapping the unconscious man with his new magic mace, trying to turn him into an animal.<br />
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"This is why we don't have an animated series on Amazon."<br />
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There is <b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline;">SO</b> room in this nerd world for Critical Role and Oxventures. Animated. I need both.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-56096369344279703252020-03-30T16:53:00.004+01:002022-01-15T12:04:05.031+00:00Seeing is believing...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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...but feeling is the truth.<br />
Thomas Fuller, <i>physician, writer, adage collector </i><br />
<br /><a href="https://storycomments.blogspot.com/search/label/correct%20adages" target="_blank">More correct adages!</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-64740905009314730762020-02-07T12:00:00.001+00:002020-02-07T12:01:28.075+00:00First Among Sequels, chapter 24<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I love everything Jasper Fforde has to say about story. (Check out some other Ffordian quotes with the <a href="http://storycomments.blogspot.com/search/label/Jasper%20Fforde?m=0" target="_blank">Jasper Fforde</a> tag.)<br />
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"Humans like stories. Humans <i>need</i> stories. Stories are good. Stories <i>work</i>. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit."<br />
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<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/First-Among-Sequels-Jasper-Fforde/9780340752029?ref=grid-view&qid=1581076393847&sr=1-1/?a_aid=storycomments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-61515549841896258202020-02-05T15:04:00.002+00:002020-02-05T15:04:38.266+00:00Uncharted 2: Among Thieves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"That was chivalrous, huh?"</i><br />
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<i>"It's not dead, you just got to ask for it."</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-44902600574431872222020-01-29T17:05:00.001+00:002020-01-29T17:05:53.802+00:00The Last of Us: The Definitive Playthrough<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Keeping me company today is the sound (and visual when it gets interesting) of Troy Baker* playing The Last of Us, and there are some fantastic insights into the game and the making of it.<br />
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*and sometimes Nolan North</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270873806835312942.post-20176036948015654602020-01-28T15:00:00.001+00:002023-08-25T11:29:19.324+01:00The Cloudspotter's Guide, chapter 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Clouds are Nature's poetry, spoken in a whisper in the rarefied air between crest and crag.</i><br />
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This is an exceptional read if you love clouds, which the author (and creator of the Cloud Appreciation Society) clearly does. I'm struggling to learn much, however, as the information keeps meandering into story.<br /></div>
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<i>There's a lot of ugly in this world but there's sure as hell is a lot of beauty.</i> -John Marston</div>
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Mr Miller on writing:<br />
<i>I feel amazing! Except for the doubt and the self loathing.</i></div>
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<i>For all it brightens, love casts long shadows.</i> -Geralt</div>
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