This was my final post on Meta platforms before I delete my accounts, so I’ve directed people who would like to see any more #ThursdayBooksandBeer posts here to Pixelfed. It’s nice here. No ads. No corporate f**kery. This week I’m reading On the Calculation of Volume I (the first in a seven book series) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. It’s been shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize. It’s like Groundhog Day (which I teach as a profound work of philosophy), but taken in the interesting directions you might expect from an intellectual European novelist. I’m ALSO reading Careless People: A story of where I used to work, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which is about Facebook and confirms why I’m right to be leaving it. I’ll be interested if its presence in this post meant that fewer people saw it, because despite pretensions to free speech Zuckerberg and Sandberg have tried strenuously to block the book. In keeping with the experimental nature of Balle’s book I’m accompanying it with Tom’s Elixir, an experimental IPA brewed with terpenes. And Careless People’s is accompanied by Grumpy Dave’s NEIPA, because who wouldn’t be grumpy about how greedy and stupid these corporate billionaires are. #literature #bookerprize #literatureintranslation #craftbeer #groundhogday

"I had three movies that came out within a year of each other." - DANNY RUBIN, Danny Rubin, Part 1, Every Day Is Groundhog Day (Except for the Days When It’s Not) #GroundhogDay #GroundhogDayPodcast #DannyRubin

"Did you say hamster?" - CALLER, Groundhog Day, Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People #BeautAnon #GroundhogDay #HamsterDay

"When I was really young, we didn't have a pet!" - CALLER, Groundhog Day, Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People #BeautAnon #GroundhogDay #NationalPetDay