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Sleepy Reads, Two Aubreys, and Puns
Leave a commentNovember 25, 2015 by libroshombre
They’re rare, but some books pull off the trick of being interesting while still preparing your mind for sleep …
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Dashes, Dots, and Librarians
Leave a commentNovember 17, 2015 by libroshombre
The beginning of many aspects of the writing arts include librarians. Take Butehamen, the next-to-last chief scribe in ancient Egypt’s …
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Holes, Moons, and Tea Parties
1November 10, 2015 by libroshombre
“A Hole Is To Dig: A First Book of Definitions” was the first book I recall reading. It spoke to …
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Fat Ladies, Receipts, Recipes, and Love Talk
Leave a commentNovember 10, 2015 by libroshombre
“Two Fat Ladies” is a delightful BBC cooking show featuring a couple of chubby upper-crust cooks who cruise around on …
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Bubbles, Words, and Colors
Leave a commentOctober 27, 2015 by libroshombre
“This world’s a bubble,” according to Saint Augustine, and I think he nailed it. I recently read a Slate.com article …
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Frustration, Anxiety, and Guff
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2015 by libroshombre
“I was an accomplice in my own frustration,” the English playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer once wrote, and to some …
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Pullation, Holophrasm, and Cekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissiniz
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2015 by libroshombre
People who look for them find that new, amusing, and useful words seem to pullulate. A.Word.A.Day, that fount of …
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Unstoppable Change, Ain’t Onus, and Catalog Cards
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2015 by libroshombre
“Change,” as Benjamin Disraeli pointed out, “is inevitable. Change is constant.” Ain’t it though? There was a time when “ain’t” …
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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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Unfortunate Headlines, Strange Swords, and Blue-Backed Spellers
Leave a commentSeptember 26, 2015 by libroshombre
A friend recently gave me a delightful collection of “flubs from the nation’s press” titled “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.” …
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