Category Archives: books

  1. Cactus, Serapes, and Friendship

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    December 5, 2025 by libroshombre

             Having a brother-in-law who’s also a friend is one of life’s true blessings.  Knowing of my obsession with Patrick O’Brian’s sea …
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  2. Santa’s Physics, Spaghettification, and Stupidity

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    December 5, 2025 by libroshombre

    Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan both knew a lot about science.  Sagan said, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science …
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  3. Actaeon’s Dogs, Reading Neurobiologically, and de Gaulle

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

    The eminently browsable Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has revealed Ovid’s list of the fifty dogs who were once …
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    Category: animals, books, dogs, libraries, literacy, mythology, paper, print, reading, reading brain | Tags: , , , ,

  4. Pop, Pop-Up, and Popping Weasels

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Billie Holiday once said, “Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was …
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  5. Xylariums, Razors, and Pogo Sticks

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones – …
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    Category: art, books, comic strips, comics, exercise, libraries, nature, philosophy, wood, words, xsports | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  6. Reduplications, Great Shifts, and Free Speech

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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    Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  7. Cockroaches, Melting Hearts, and Mark Twain’s Library

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

    Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words …
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  8. Giants, Presses, and Gall

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    January 3, 2025 by libroshombre

    Phrases.org defines “Standing on the shoulders of giants” as “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before …
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  9. Jack’s House, Montaigne’s Essays, and Florio

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    January 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                It’s confession time; I’m an annotator (a person who adds explanatory or critical notes to a text) and often write …
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  10. Maniacs, Books, and Water

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    November 26, 2024 by libroshombre

                My mornings begin with drinking a glass of water from our deep, sweet well, and each time I try to …
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    Category: book theft, books, librarians, libraries, psychology, sports, water | Tags: , , , , ,

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