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[@lauras9071]

I feel like most of my memories of Swordheart are just vibes, but that forest was eerie. I need to make more progress on The Will to Battle, but I think its pacing is a little more chaotic than the previous books. Which matches the whole decision of to battle or not to battle, but makes it so much easier to pick up Raven Stratagem.

[@tweegerm]

BMV is the main indie chain in Toronto. The BMV on Bloor is a three-story warehouse with all the nerd stuff in the attic. It also sells some secondhand but if you want the true cramped, dusty secondhand books vibe then Seeker's Books is a literal underground shop a block away. Or if you're doing things more centrally around Yonge then ABC Books.

[@AshtheViking]

I was gonna say Seekers books, don't they have a bookstore cat?

[@tweegerm]

@@AshtheViking They DO how did I forget to mention that

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Did end up at the BMV on Bloor!

[@SarahAsYouWish]

Now that you’re living in Ohio again, you can get an e-card from just about any Ohio library system to use on Libby. The Ohio Digital Library, CLEVNET, Digital Downloads Collaboration, Dayton Metro Library, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library, and the Cuyahoga County Library are some of the Ohio cards I use on Libby.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I already had the Cleveland and Cuyahoga when I lived in Boston 😅 they have my largest digital libraries but don’t always have my niche picks. So of my four libraries only Boston Public has the third terra ignota for ebook. I think the cleveland ones have the audio but I don’t want to go that route. The audiobook treatment is mixed on this series 😅

[@AuraReadsBooks]

Toronto Indie Bookstores I LOVE: Bakka Phoenix - sci-fi/fantasy books Little Ghosts - horror books

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thanks for the recs!

[@kartik3719]

I haven't read it but it sounds like the book The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race might be up your alley

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thanks for the rec ☺️

[@esmayrosalyne]

The fact that I remember nothing about the third act breakup in Swordheart makes me think my brain just deleted it and only saved the pure joy it gave me overall lol. Also, YES for House of the Dragon's performances being soooo good. I can't wait for S2! 🤩 Have a fun trip 🥰🎭

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Oh it was rough lol glad your brain deleted it!

[@JoshsBookishVoyage]

Another story bookshop in Toronto might be worth a visit. I never made it there in person, but I've heard good things about them and have bought some things online.

[@JoshsBookishVoyage]

One thought I had, that I wish Butler had touched on, was weather maturity and cognitive ability is strictly a product of time vs biology. As in, she may be like 50, but her body is still that of a child, which would inevitably impact the brain function. It's not really a complaint so much as an idea that would have been interesting to have considered.

[@bentheoverlord]

Ooh some great books on that list !! Really need to read more Kingfisher as except that one book (the horroresque on in the antique shop) I've really loved their work. Cannot wait for HoTD on Monday (going to a watch party for it), as I was shocked how good it was. Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke are so bloody good (as was Paddy Considine and Matt Smith) and cannot wait to see what they bring to season 2. Also Team Black for the win, I support all their rights and wrongs !!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Might have just bought another T Kingfisher while on my trip…

[@ThatsSoPoe]

Have fun in Toronto! Neat that you finished all of Butler's works. I loved the horror aspects in Swordheart too.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

It was a lovely time!

[@amotleyartwkatherine]

It is always refreshing when you get good acting in a show or movie. Makes you appreciate that there is a difference. I have read a few three stars and then read a four star book. Those three stars books really helped me appreciate how good the four star book was even though it didn't quite hit the five star mark. I'm thinking about rereading a five star book to get that high of reading a really good book.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I think that’s why rereading has been such a priority for me this year. Been struggling to find new 5 star books

[@kathleenwheeler5573]

I agree with you on the third act break up in Swordheart. It annoyed me, did not enjoy it and had to put the book down for a bit. I finally did finish the book and overall liked it although not my favorite of Kingfisher’s book.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Yea that’s about where I landed as well

[@ingridrabe3877]

Seconding the recommendation for BMV Books in Toronto (the one on Bloor street has lots of really cool sci fi, fantasy, and comics on the third floor, it’s awesome), but The Monkey's Paw is also well worth a visit.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

We did get to go yesterday! It was a cool place ☺️

[@TiffReadsBooks]

I have such similar feelings about Matt Smith as the doctor, but that Van Gogh episode is up in my top 5. Also similar feelings about Swordheart. The friendship between Halla and Zale was my everything

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Truly the Halla Zale problem solving missions were fantastic!

[@MLLatUtube]

🎭🎭🎭Have a great time in Toronto! I have always shied away from Butler's books because they sound so depressing but I may give Fledgling a try. I just finished reading Why We Read, which was great, and am now catching up on some paranormal cozy mysteries.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I mean I think most people would still say Fledgling is disturbing but I found the ending more optimistic than the majority of her works, but not sure if that’s saying alot 😂

[@bookishdi]

You coming out as an anti-Stratfordian is so painful 😭 for real though, a lot of their arguments (to me) are "how dare a man who isn't noble write these plays" and just reeks of classism. Also, so many of the supposed other authors don't align with Shakespeare's actual output (like Oxford died before the Tempest was written for example)

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I am not anti-stratfordian so much as anti assuming we know for sure who it is lol the book has lots of fun theories and I don’t think any are convincing but they all convince me that none of the evidence is strong. I am more mesmerized that its not a topic people are allowed to academically debate without so much controversy or hatred. There are also plenty of theories of people who are not Nobel but have more education that would help make the allusions and references in the works make sense

[@Kristenisfullybookd]

Not a bookstore, but there's a book themed cocktail bar in the Toronto neighborhood the junction (west end) called famous last words. The bar is made from scrabble pieces. They used to make themed cocktails based on your bookclub book if you met there, very cool place

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I wish I liked alcohol and cocktails more cause that sounds awesome! We did end up at a brewery last night with board games and played a quick game patchwork

[@BookishVicky]

I've been scared to read Fledgling because I thought the 10-year-old thing would be too much for me, but your point that it isn't a 10-year-old that was turned but instead a completely different species has made me reconsider. I did love Butler's Dawn trilogy so I'm used to the weird stuff she writes. Hope you have a good trip!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I do get that imagery is still tough for people and that had to be an intentional choice by Butler but it did not bother me as much as it has other readers

[@Katiedora122]

🎭I've actually had the Shakespeare book on my shelf since it came out (I got excited because the author's sister is a KZbinr I like, lol), but then it got buried in my book stacks and I keep forgetting to pick it up. I'm hoping I can get to it at some point this summer, though!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Hope its also engaging for you!

[@KristinKravesBooks]

I so relate to having to put down a book during a third act break up!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Thankfully it did end up being a good time but it really pulled me out of it for a second 😅

[@RodgersReads]

How people are team green is beyond me. Alicent and incel guard man…I can’t with them

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

The difference in family vibes is wild, especially when you consider Daemon is actually a pretty good family man???

[@natasagajic1061]

Yup, the third act conflict in Swordheart sucks and I wholeheartedly agree that it's out of character 😒😑 I am also really looking forward to HoD season 2. I'll try to wait patiently for all of it to come out so that I can binge it. We'll see whether I succeed or not 🤭 I hope you'll have a great time in Toronto! 😊🏙

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I find I can’t binge HoD, or GoT. The pacing of those shows works super well for me at one episode at a time but then I’m full. Plus I love seeing the memes right away 😂

[@natasagajic1061]

@@LiteratureScienceAlliance While I want all of the story, _now_ 😂 But I completely agree with the memes point. That's what usually broke my conviction to wait when GOT was releasing 😂

[@SarahAsYouWish]

I completely agree that the most fascinating part of Shakespeare Was a Woman was the complete amount of stubborn denial people hold onto so dearly in refusing to allow any questions of authorship. It’s really baffling. Yes, David Tennant is absolutely the best Doctor.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Yea the way the academic community wouldn’t publish the one well researched work was astounding to me, and the lack of legit reasons they listed in the rejection letter 🙄

[@heabooktubes]

Read Paladin’s Grace. I’m on my knees. Begging.

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

Fine. Ok. I will!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

One day soon!

[@guiltyspark580]

I’m looking forward for your next video I only read kindred from her and this video would be there helpful thank you very much

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Hope it helps!!

[@Lekktu]

One interesting thing is, why do some people has doubts about who wrote Shakespeare's plays? That's a very modern idea. Nobody at the time ever doubted the man from Stratford was writing the plays. Doubting it is not heresy, but it reeks a bit of classism. Surely a country boy couldn't be the best theatrical author ever...

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

This was actually a large part of the beginning of the nonfiction, people have been questioning the authorship since the 1600s its not super modern, just perceived to be

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

I will say I care less about who wrote the plays than I do the lack of academic integrity given to the topic. Some of the theories aren’t even a nobleman must have done it. One is someone with a similar background to Shakespeare. Basically the lack of even allowing conversation feels anti academic to me. There is a section about publishing near the end that frustrated me a little lol. This book obviously has its bias of thinking shakespeare is not the author but I found the way it laid out all the theories for and against the authorship of shakespeare and other candidates pretty plainly with minimal emotion, which I value in research

[@Lekktu]

@@LiteratureScienceAlliance I also value objetive research. I've read a lot about Shakespeare, his life, and the authorship question, both for and against. And the impression I always get is that the anti-strats dismiss every argument and historical fact (like Ben Jonson's "sweet swan of Avon") as "not a proof" while they build a castle of speculations over a lot of shifting sands. Anyway, it's a debate we won't settle here. Sorry for the intermission. Great video, btw.

[@Lekktu]

Also, if we want to debate, it's better to turn to Kit Marlowe. Now that's an interesting character, a great author with a life full of mystery and unexplained things... ;-)

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

@book so that’s my favorite theory! (Although I am still not very into picking one the data isn’t strong enough for me for any candidate) It’s one of the last chapters of the book so I hadn’t gotten there yet when filming. There is also a fascinating computer code that was used to finger print author styles based on word length and Marlowe and Shakespeare are nearly identical with that test. But I do think I come from this less from a Shakespeare lover (although I do love his poems and plays) and more someone who dislikes how the higher academics have dealt with the subject matter. It reminds me of stubborn PIs in the sciences.

[@mattkean1128]

🪶🎭 Queen Elizabeth being Shakespeare is a fun theory

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

That one was not brought up but the way Queen Elizabeth seemed to treat Shakespeare so differently compared to other playwright does make some theories very fun

[@parkercrystal1]

Please go on a live with Allen and tell him you don't believe Shakespeare wrote everything. He will have an aneurysm.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Hahaha no, I love shakespeare works but have now learned how defensive and passionate people are on this subject and will be observing from afar from now on 😂

[@hannahandherstories]

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[@alexiasp]

🎭i didnt know Madame Web existed and Im happily saying i’ll never watch it🤣🤣 they really think they can make money out of anything superhero these days

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Truly a wild idea and extremely poorly executed 😂

[@heabooktubes]

The Shakespeare discussion was so interesting.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Its even more interesting cause I did not realize how many people in the comment section would find that to be the controversial part of this video 😅 I was thinking of fledgling when I made this title

[@richdouglas9241]

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