Category Archives: books
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Covid, Euclid, and the Isle of Demons
Leave a commentSeptember 24, 2020 by libroshombre
A series of unfortunate events crippled my understanding of algebra, but geometry made sense, thanks to Pete Johnson, my …
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Books, Bells, and Morals
Leave a commentSeptember 3, 2020 by libroshombre
It’s fascinating how the human mind skips around, sometimes fruitfully, like recent consideration of a naked pig-chasing man leading …
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Inspiring Explorers and Magnates
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2020 by libroshombre
I adore people and things that incite my curiosity and desire to learn. For example, every edition of Lapham’s …
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Earwax, Book Banning, and the Mat-Su School Board
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation,” according to life-style philosopher Andrew J. Bernstein. “They not …
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Harry Stuff, Stargazy Pie, and Escapism
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
Horror writer maintained that, “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” …
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Mini-circuses, Mini-tomes, and Mini-libraries
Leave a commentApril 2, 2020 by libroshombre
Playwright Chu-Win observed that “Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day …
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Murders, Measuers, and MSG
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2020 by libroshombre
Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
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Tea, Twain, and Tomes
Leave a commentMarch 30, 2020 by libroshombre
One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries. Perhaps a …
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Dirt, Silence, and Bibliomania
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2019 by libroshombre
When considering the crucial role played by libraries in promoting societal well-being and the years of cuts – financial, staffing, …
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How Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, and I Are Alike
Leave a commentAugust 14, 2019 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill 479-4344 July 18, 2019 Robert Louis Stevenson claimed that, “To forget oneself is to be …
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