Category Archives: reading
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King Ludd, Flow States, and Bill Russell
Leave a commentFebruary 3, 2023 by libroshombre
Flow states, switch-cost effect, and ludditeism have been worrisome lately; it started with a thought-terminating cliché, which is also …
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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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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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Interrobangs, Pedantry, and Rascism
Leave a commentApril 23, 2022 by libroshombre
American writer H.L. Mencken’s word-smithing, the courage of his convictions, and his pioneering work on our version of English, …
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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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Humaning, Nero, and Obscure Sorrows
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2022 by libroshombre
Once long ago my mother read to me every night at bedtime, and she also read to herself a lot: …
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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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Reading: A Pandemic Silver Lining
Leave a commentJanuary 28, 2021 by libroshombre
The last time the US Capitol was ransacked, it was by the British who also destroyed the nascent national …
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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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