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May 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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Category: books, dictionaries, escape, fish, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: Alfred E. Neumann, Mousehole, patrick O'Brian, pilchards, Shirley Jackson, stargazy pie, Terry Pratchett
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August 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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Category: aging, alzheimer's, books, boostacks, brain, reading, reading brain, Uncategorized
| Tags: J. Edgar Hoover, Marie Kondo, marilyn monroe, Rick Geary, Robert Louis Stevenson, Winston CHurchill, Zhuangzi
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October 19, 2018 by libroshombre
Reading and ice cream are delightful summer pursuits, although only the former’s good for you. Summer reading’s typically light and …
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Category: books, ice cream, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: Eskimo Pies, Good Humor Bars, Khety II, Popcicles, Thi Bui, Warrern Buffet
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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: Apache Kid, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Petersen, Genghis Khan, Geronimo, Jane Austen, MRI, phillip kerr, Winston CHurchill
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May 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Teaching an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class on Patrick O’Brian was more involved than anticipated. Having read (and listened …
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Category: biography, books, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: flogging, Germain Greer, Jean-Baptist Tavernier, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, patrick O'Brian, peacock throne, Phillip Thicknesse
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May 9, 2017 by libroshombre
Some words seem made to go together, and the ones that actually do become “portmanteaus.” A portmanteau’s a large, stiff-sided …
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Category: language, reading, Uncategorized, words
| Tags: George Herriman, Humpty Dumpty, Krazy Kat, pied piper, portmanteau, William Randolph Hearst
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April 7, 2017 by libroshombre
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer knew vulgarity when he encountered it, and there’s even a selection of them in the section titled …
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Category: computers, ebooks, education, Library of Alexandria, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: Aristophanes, Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable, Doris Day, fool'scap, Guy Davenport, Nabokov, vulgarity
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September 14, 2016 by libroshombre
John Wayne once said, “I’ve loved reading all my life,” and on that score soul mates. However, I’m especially …
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Category: comics, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: booklists, Guys Read, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, John Wayne, Mental Floss, Mother of All Booklists, Oscar Wilde, Vaselina
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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: browsing, deep reading, Dorothy Parker, ferrinaceous, neatsfoot oil, Owen Barfield, P. G. Wodehouse, patrick O'Brian, poetic diction, proto-Germanic
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June 24, 2016 by libroshombre
It’s no secret that I’m still not over last year’s passing of my sweet old dog, Fay. When I …
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Category: babies, birds, brain, libraries, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: sled dogs, songbirds