Category Archives: reading
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Flogging, Peacocks, and Thicknesse
Leave a commentMay 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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Humpty, Pied, and Krazy
2May 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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Vulgarity, Punctuation, and Doris Day
Leave a commentApril 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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John Wayne, Harry Potter, and Oscar Wilde
Leave a commentSeptember 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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Deep Reading, Lizard Feet, and Tough Cookies
Leave a commentAugust 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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Sleddogs, Songbirds, and Baby Brains
Leave a commentJune 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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Prince, Petulance, and Speed Reading
Leave a commentMay 30, 2016 by libroshombre
Prince, the flamboyant and recently deceased musician, once said “Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.” Time comes in …
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Yogi, Gene, and Norman
Leave a commentJanuary 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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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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Doryphoric Pedantry, Reading Brains, and Sans Serif
Leave a commentSeptember 30, 2015 by libroshombre
My inner doryphore emerges whenever someone claims that emergence of computers means that “this is the end of print books.” …
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