Category Archives: books
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Old Books, Old Librarians, and Literary Iceland
Leave a commentDecember 29, 2015 by libroshombre
There’s much to commend about old books, beginning with the observation of Victorian critic John Ruskin, “All books are divisible …
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Nonplussed Emojis Not My Fault
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2015 by libroshombre
“Mea culpa,” or “my fault,” is probably my favorite Latin phrase; at least I use it the most. This …
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Authoritative Answers, Questionable Acts, and Small-minded Men
Leave a commentMarch 19, 2015 by libroshombre
“Ask Us Anything” is a regular feature of Popular Science Magazine written by Daniel Engber that might be offering more …
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The Persistent Importance of Print, Reading, and School Libraries
Leave a commentMarch 10, 2015 by libroshombre
Dozens of studies agree: people prefer reading print books over electronic devices. In the 1990’s some folks insisted, rather stridently, …
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Bad Boys and Girls, Who’s Who, and Mr. Toilet
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2015 by libroshombre
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare once asked. That’s what School Stickers, a British company, wanted to know. School Stickers sells …
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Tree Asps, Knock-knock Jokes, and Surprising Books
Leave a commentJanuary 5, 2015 by libroshombre
The powerful 17th century French nobleman Francois de La Rochefoucauld made a sad commentary on his life when he wrote, …
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Mansplaining, 1616, and Buying Books
Leave a commentSeptember 18, 2014 by libroshombre
Cicero the Roman once wrote, “Old nature is by nature rather talkative,” and, being something of a chatterbox all my …
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Bathroom Libraries, Scottish War Cries and Language Mutations
Leave a commentSeptember 4, 2014 by libroshombre
The British writer Holbrook Jackson once said, “Your library is your portrait,” but he was speaking only of people who …
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Therapeutic Reading, Raymond Chandler, and the Library of America
Leave a commentAugust 28, 2014 by libroshombre
Some anonymous ancient wise guy once called his library “a hospital of the mind.” That applies to my personal library, …
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Musical Compulsions, Analog Reading, and Smelly Books
Leave a commentAugust 7, 2014 by libroshombre
“Preference” is defined in Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” as “a sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous …
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