Reading Wednesday
Dec. 14th, 2022 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidWhat have you been reading?
Drinking Culture by Christine Su
A fun zine about what drinking culture is like for Japanese workers. In this case, the worker is a Canadian teaching English. Christine discusses drinking establishments (including all-you-can-drink parties!), drinking culture as it rides along work culture or on the train, leading to my favourite sentence in the zine: "If you're wondering why Japanese people don't [bring their own snacks and drinks on the train], it's because they're obeying train etiquette, which includes: no talking on the phone, talk in a low volume, no eating, but, reading softcore erotic manga is okay." Christine has also published a bunch of other zines on her experiences of Japanese culture.
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You Still Need a Coffin: A memoir/how-to about what to do when someone dies by Shivaun Hoad.
This is a microzine ♥️. Shivaun writes about the experience of dealing with their uncle's death, including cremation, mistaken organ donation (oops!), funeral, and other details while closer family were abroad. The folded inner page features a list of useful resources when dealing with a dead relative. While this could have been clinical, Shivaun actually delivers some humour and humanity to the process, and this turns out to be one of the most information dense microzines I've ever read, without resorting to small print.
Now start preparing your #PodcastFriday posts. ;)
Drinking Culture by Christine Su
A fun zine about what drinking culture is like for Japanese workers. In this case, the worker is a Canadian teaching English. Christine discusses drinking establishments (including all-you-can-drink parties!), drinking culture as it rides along work culture or on the train, leading to my favourite sentence in the zine: "If you're wondering why Japanese people don't [bring their own snacks and drinks on the train], it's because they're obeying train etiquette, which includes: no talking on the phone, talk in a low volume, no eating, but, reading softcore erotic manga is okay." Christine has also published a bunch of other zines on her experiences of Japanese culture.
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You Still Need a Coffin: A memoir/how-to about what to do when someone dies by Shivaun Hoad.
This is a microzine ♥️. Shivaun writes about the experience of dealing with their uncle's death, including cremation, mistaken organ donation (oops!), funeral, and other details while closer family were abroad. The folded inner page features a list of useful resources when dealing with a dead relative. While this could have been clinical, Shivaun actually delivers some humour and humanity to the process, and this turns out to be one of the most information dense microzines I've ever read, without resorting to small print.
Now start preparing your #PodcastFriday posts. ;)