Dianna Walla
@diannawalla.bsky.social
Research librarian & linguist, crafter and textile enthusiast. I post about linguistics, digital humanities, & critical AI literacy. Always interested in amplifying marginalized voices. She/her. 📍Trondheim, Norway
(This is probably a just-me thing, but I really needed to get that thought out of my head.)
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
(This is probably a just-me thing, but I really needed to get that thought out of my head.)
Not this one, no! It's Hedgebind by my friend Marina Skua. It was immensely fun to knit!
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not this one, no! It's Hedgebind by my friend Marina Skua. It was immensely fun to knit!
It's likely many can understand it without, but a translation is always helpful (where the goal is comprehension rather than practicing reading Middle English, that is).
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It's likely many can understand it without, but a translation is always helpful (where the goal is comprehension rather than practicing reading Middle English, that is).
And last up is a novel! I tend to think nonfiction books stick with me better, but this one's going to stick with me for a long time. R.F. Kuang's Babel was remarkable. And admittedly relevant to my interests: AU historical/fantasy Oxford, the power of language and translation, anti-imperialism.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution - Harper Voyager
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER‘One for Philip Pullman fans’THE TIMES‘This one is an automatic buy’GLAMOUR‘Ambitious, sweeping and epic’EVENING STANDARD‘Razor-sharp’DAILY MAIL‘An ingenious f...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
And last up is a novel! I tend to think nonfiction books stick with me better, but this one's going to stick with me for a long time. R.F. Kuang's Babel was remarkable. And admittedly relevant to my interests: AU historical/fantasy Oxford, the power of language and translation, anti-imperialism.
Another I really enjoyed was The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. I have enjoyed his previous books (which deal with biodiversity in UK agricultural contexts among other things) but this one had to do with the season he spent helping collect Eiderdown on the Norwegian coast.
The Place of Tides
One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild ducks and gathering their down. Hers was ...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Another I really enjoyed was The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. I have enjoyed his previous books (which deal with biodiversity in UK agricultural contexts among other things) but this one had to do with the season he spent helping collect Eiderdown on the Norwegian coast.
Next up is Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter. Social subversion through the subversion of sartorial expectations amongst members of the Bloomsbury group, plus the author's own exploration of making clothes. Excellent. www.penguin.co.uk/books/453043...
Bring No Clothes
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born.
In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fash...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Next up is Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter. Social subversion through the subversion of sartorial expectations amongst members of the Bloomsbury group, plus the author's own exploration of making clothes. Excellent. www.penguin.co.uk/books/453043...
Hylland Eriksen was an anthropologist and this was his final book (and what a book to go out on). He covers the importance of diversity on a global scale, showing how the importance of biodiversity and cultural diversity mirror each other, and what we stand to lose when that diversity disappears.
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hylland Eriksen was an anthropologist and this was his final book (and what a book to go out on). He covers the importance of diversity on a global scale, showing how the importance of biodiversity and cultural diversity mirror each other, and what we stand to lose when that diversity disappears.
Next up is Det umistelige: fra global ensretting til et nytt mangfold by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The title is tricky to translate, since 'umistelig' can mean both inalienable and irreplaceable. The second half is something like 'from global uniformity to a new diversity'. aschehoug.no/det-umistelige
Det umistelige
aschehoug.no
December 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Next up is Det umistelige: fra global ensretting til et nytt mangfold by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The title is tricky to translate, since 'umistelig' can mean both inalienable and irreplaceable. The second half is something like 'from global uniformity to a new diversity'. aschehoug.no/det-umistelige