Category Archives: books
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Fires, Bookmarks, and Leaky Privies
Leave a commentFebruary 3, 2023 by libroshombre
It’s sometimes interesting while reading a book to reflect upon the chain of prior readings that led you there. …
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Annotations, Ink Drinkers, and Pleasure Reading
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2022 by libroshombre
Knowing I’d just returned from a Seattle trip, a friend needlessly asked if I’d visited any bookstores. Well, I …
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Tolerance, Trousers, and Egyptian Bar Jokes
Leave a commentJune 18, 2022 by libroshombre
International Tolerance Day won’t roll around until November 16, but it’s increasingly obvious we ought to celebrate “sympathy or …
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Ashurbanipal’s Library, Queen Readers, and the Intolerably Stupid
Leave a commentMay 23, 2022 by libroshombre
Once upon a time, back when literacy was really rare, no one ever read silently to themselves, and all …
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Banana Peels, White Wings, and Moby Dick
Leave a commentMarch 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Eric Hoffer, the American longshoreman philosopher, noticed that “Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which …
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Comics, Maypoles, and Book Banning
Leave a commentMarch 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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Memories, Rats, and Hair Books
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2022 by libroshombre
P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest humor writer of the twentieth century, claimed that “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap …
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Conning, Theivery, and Goatish Retribution
Leave a commentJune 3, 2021 by libroshombre
“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication …
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Browsing with Mimi, Trina, and Beverly
Leave a commentApril 8, 2021 by libroshombre
My daughter Mimi was eight the winter of 1997 when she received a letter from Trina Schart Hyman, the …
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