Category: Random

Western philosophy and religion make a lot of either/or distinctions (self and other, God and creation) that many Eastern traditions don’t think about the same way. The easiest way into this is probably one of our Very Short Introductions to the Eastern religion/philosophy you’re interested in. https://bit.ly/bc-vsi-hinduism

Beautiful! 

Oh noooo! Sorry, I started to make a list and got distracted. Stephen King. He did a short story collection called Night Shift that’s fantastic. We don’t have that one (yet! we will soon), but we do have a bunch of his stuff. List coming soon!

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant
Holly, by Stephen King
The Indian Lake trilogy, by Stephen Graham Jones
In the Night Wood, by Dale Bailey
Wake the Bones, by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James (R6019.A565 A6 2018)
Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman!!!!!
The Winter People, by Jennifer McMahon
The Passage trilogy, by Justin Cronin
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
Cold Hand in Mine, by Robert Aickman
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero
Out, by Natsuo Kirino.
Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay
NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Militia House,  by John Milas
What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes, by Eric LaRocca
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams
She is a Haunting, by Trang Thanh Tran
Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth
Devil House, by John Darnielle, 
The Icarus Girl, by Helen Oyeyemi 
Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski

A fashion designer, known for sculptural and goth-esque designs. I quite like the boot designs, I wish I could wear shoes.

I’m not so big on math, and as it turns out neither are my assistants, and this kind of looks like derivatives. I’d suggest either Khan Academy, a tutor at the CFLC (bit.ly/BC-connors), or Linked In Learning (bit.ly/bc-linked-in-learning).

Happy means different things to different folks. For me, “Happy” is the hustle and bustle of a busy campus and the hugging feeling I get from every Post-it note.

You are very welcome! Our team is Circulation made it happen.

Ah! I wish I could, but being a wall, I can’t move from this spot. See the display on the other side of the lobby! I do hope everyone reading this goes and I can live vicariously. Details: events.bc.edu/event/pippin

One popular method is to use the Pomodoro technique. This means you set a timer for 25 minutes to do a task then take a short break. This approach keeps the engaged. Everyone’s brain works differently. It’s less about resisting procrastication than it is finding a way to get things done without too much stress. The Connors Family Learning Center provides academic coaching if you want more support. bit.ly/BC-connors

As a wall, I enjoy the flavor of the post-it’s sticky back, and am using the drawing to try to imagine what such a thing tastes like to humans. Thank you!

Homeless facilities are inadequate in Massachusetts, and prisons aren’t full, so I understand your question. When Boston abruptly closed the Long Island homeless and recovery facilities in 2014, other homeless facilities in Boston were overwhelmed, and people who either couldn’t get in or couldn’t tolerate the crowds ended up tenting at Mass & Cass, which police have recently cleared out. Gov. Healy recently turned an old prison into an emergency homeless shelter, so there’s certainly a precedent: bit.ly/bscc-prison-homeless. But housing would be even better.

I don’t really have an opinion as I get my fiber from eating older messages, but my helper who’s typing this up says if you’re at an orchard you should always try the variety you’ve never heard of.

There are all kinds of places to go for trendy answers to this question, but pragmatically the best coding language is the one that solves a problem for you. Maybe it’s what the project you’re interested in uses, maybe it’s the one your boss requires. If you’re a solo developer, maybe it’s the one that there’s already a good ecosystem around.

It’s fascinating and some of my favorite pieces of media explore it. The Locked Tomb book series, the tv show Yellowjackets, Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter album. All amazing pieces of work if that’s a trope that interests you!

…oh, baby, don’t hurt me… Dee Dee Halligan and Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter certainly had a way with words! 

If the world was ending, I’d be here and glad to see you.

19, though memes may differ.

Bike BC is taking the fall semester to replace their inventory of bikes and revamp the program. Bikes should be available for loan in the spring semester once we are through the worst of the winter weather.

If I am understanding this correctly, you are asking for books that made me cry. The list is long, but recently A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara got me right in the feels.

I’m sorry it’s chilly in here. In addition to the whole campus always having an awkward transition from cooling to heating in the fall, BC Libraries’ buildings have an added wrinkle: books like a fairly narrow range of temperature and (especially) humidity, and sometimes removing humidity means removing heat. That old stereotype of librarians in cardigans is true for a reason.