Year: 2020
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A Friend’s Reading Challenge: 10 Books in a Week
A Good Neighborhood, A Room with a View, Abbi Waxman, Akwaeke Emezi, classics, E.M. Forster, fantasy, James McBride, John Connolly, memoir, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Naomi Novik, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paula Byrne, Reading, reading challenge, The Book of Lost Things, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Good Lord Bird, The Real Jane Austen, Therese Anne FowlerOne of my best friends is an avid reader and often reads voraciously in a very short period. She took a few days off of work with the goal to read 10 books. This sounded like fun, so I thought I’d join her in trying to read 10 books before my classes started a few…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings This weekend I’m heading out to our cabin! I baked a bunch of goodies to take…
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One of my classes this semester is a photography preservation class. Part of doing archival work around photographs involves identifying different photography processes. There are many ways of making a photograph, even from the earliest days of photography in 1839. Some photographs are one of a kind objects, other photography techniques involve creating a photo…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings This week was the start of a new semester, and consequently I feel like I suddenly…
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“I needed a more interesting life. I could start by learning something. I could start with the starter.” ― Robin Sloan, Sourdough Sourdough bread has become something of a fad these days, so much so that there have been flour shortages as everyone else has discovered the benefits of baking on the soul, if not the waistline.…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings Last weekend my partner and I headed up to my family’s property near Yosemite. It had…
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There is always a lot of controversy when public libraries (or really any libraries) get rid of books. In 2015, the Berkeley Public Library chief resigned due to controversy over weeding books. This was due largely to his behavior and attitude around removing thousands of books, but there are many stories about community members being…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings After several months of saying that there was no need to return books, the library finally…
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Pretty much every film I’ve watched during the pandemic and the protests for racial justice has been charged with a different type of energy. I’ve been learning more and more about how racist attitudes come across in the different media we consume and I want to talk about it more. I think confronting these attitudes…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings My sourdough starter is ready to make bread! And my new flour arrived direct from the…
Allison Burris 