Category Archives: reading well

  1. Winners, Losers, and Screens

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    November 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                Bill Gates, who knows a bit about winning, said “Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they …
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    Category: children, deep reading, reading, reading brain, reading well, schools | Tags: , ,

  2. Davy Crockett, Inquisitions, and Bad Ideas

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    February 5, 2025 by libroshombre

                Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude.  As Hoffa put it, “I may have my faults, …
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    Category: book banning, book burning, book clubs, reading, reading brain, reading well | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  3. UFOs, Conan, and Novel Circuits

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    December 8, 2023 by libroshombre

                “Which Presidents Have Seen UFOS?  Yep, It’s More Than one,” a Politco.com article by Garrett Graff that ran last …
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    Category: deep reading, fantasy, reading, reading brain, reading well, Robert E. Howard, science fiction | Tags: , , , ,

  4. Annotations, Ink Drinkers, and Pleasure Reading

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    July 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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    Category: books, booksellers, bookstores, cartoonists, magazines, rare books, reading, reading well | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  5. Books, Books, More Books!

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    October 14, 2017 by libroshombre

      Long ago I took up the banner of bibliophile Winston Churchill: “If you cannot read all your books, at …
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    Category: books, brain, lirbaries, reading, reading brain, reading well, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  6. Deep Reading, Lizard Feet, and Tough Cookies

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    August 30, 2016 by libroshombre

      Those immersed in the reading life know an engrossing dance of words and concepts can induced by good writing, …
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    Category: books, reading, reading well, Uncategorized, vocabulary, word origins, words, writing, writing well | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  7. Yogi, Gene, and Norman

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    January 9, 2016 by libroshombre

      Once Yogi Berra was asked to explain a particularly awful Yankees outing. “We made too many wrong mistakes,” he …
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    Category: digital reading, Guys Read, Learning, libraries, reading, reading brain, reading well, research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  8. Feckless Similes and P.G. Wodehouse

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    November 19, 2014 by libroshombre

    The origin of the word “feck” arose following mention of P.G. Wodehouse’s skilled use of back-formations in last week’s column. …
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    Category: reading well, writing well | Tags: , , ,

  9. Quintilianus, Writing and Reading Well, Wodehouse, and a few Tricolons

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    November 13, 2014 by libroshombre

    Novelist Stephen King says this to those wanting to be writers: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t …
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    Category: odd words, parts of speech, reading well, writing well | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  10. Raymond Chandler and the Mystery of Libraries

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    October 23, 2014 by libroshombre

    One thing that really sets hard-boiled detective writer Raymond Chandler apart is his attention to details and quick, precise descriptions of …
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    Category: libraries, parts of speech, public libraries, reading well | Tags: , , , , , ,

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