#booksaremyjam — Public Fediverse posts

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Blueberry, lychee, rose jam paired with To Shape A Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose An Indigenous girl learns to work with a dragon in an alt history of American colonization (with really interesting linguistic elements) plus a jam featuring fruits from both places #BooksAreMyJam Day 10

Vanilla caramel, a classic flavour, with the oldest pop linguistics book I own, a used copy of Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess (yes, the Clockwork Orange guy also wrote an intro to linguistics - the penciled flyleaf reminds me I bought it used for 50¢, in high school) #BooksAreMyJam day 9

Lemon verbena white nectarine and peach with The Language Lover's Puzzle book by @[email protected] This wordlist feels like the intro to a word problem, and this book contains language puzzles in profusion, plus solutions if you get stuck & context notes on the languages #BooksAreMyJam day 8

Coffee caramel spread paired with The Fifth Season by @[email protected] (whose geology-based swear word system I loved linguistically) for their extensive histories of systemic exploitation It's day 7 of #BooksAreMyJam!

Lavender and apricot are foods that underwent long and meandering journeys through the ancient world to get to us today, so I'm pairing them with The Odyssey (translation by Emily Wilson) It's day 6 of #BooksAreMyJam!

Apple cinnamon caramel, with Babel by @[email protected]: an initial rush of sweetness, a lingering aftertaste that's far more complex. A book about the tension of translation as powerful magic Day 5 of #BooksAreMyJam

Cerise and violette are both foods that double as colour terms, so Day 4 #BooksAreMyJam is @[email protected] True Color, about the history of writing colour definitions in black and white dictionaries. This is my advance copy but it's coming out next year and I highly recommend it!

I had to look up two words from the name of this jam, both of which turned out to be familiar foods viewed differently (prune plum and pear with anise), so I've paired it with Hellspark, Janet Kagen's sf book of translation and cultural miscommunication It's #BooksAreMyJam Day 3!

Talking Hands with fig cardamom jam! Journalist Margalit Fox joins linguists on a field expedition to document Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (and eats a few figs and dates along the way) Day 2 of pairing books I love with jams from the Bonne Maman #jamvent calendar, because #BooksAreMyJam

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam! Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy. A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @[email protected]'s relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

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