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February 3, 2023 by libroshombre
It’s sometimes interesting while reading a book to reflect upon the chain of prior readings that led you there. …
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Category: books, bookshelves
| Tags: bookmarks, Brontes, Charles Babbagge, dirty men, Nero, Nero Wolfe
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April 23, 2022 by libroshombre
In “A History of Reading,” Alberto Manguel wrote, “At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of …
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Category: Bible, book banning, censorship, e-reader, etymology, language, reading, word origins, words, writers, writing
| Tags: Archie Goodwin, Babar, Billy Budd, Billy Budd KGB, Dav Pilkey, Dr. Seuss, J. Edgar Hoover, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout, ted geisel
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January 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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Category: emotion, foreign languages, libraries, mothers, reading, words
| Tags: Archie Goodwin, neologisms, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout
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September 25, 2018 by libroshombre
It’s true that lately I go to bed nightly with a corpulent, orchid-loving genius: Nero Wolfe, the best literary …
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Category: books, fiction, genre literature, literature, Uncategorized
| Tags: Horatio Hornblower, Nero Wolfe, The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
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May 14, 2018 by libroshombre
People appearing to be real stinkers might simply be under the sway of their microbes. After all, BBC.com’s James …
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Category: aroma, cookbooks, cookery, cooking, health, senses, smells, taste, Uncategorized
| Tags: Alice Waters, egg spoon, highfalutin, microbiome, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout
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May 14, 2018 by libroshombre
As Welsh poet George Herbert rightly noted in the 1600s, “Good words are worth much, and cost little,” but sometimes …
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Category: cryptogamy, mysteries, Uncategorized, vocabulary, words
| Tags: Enigma Machine, George Herbert, Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout, satisfice, Wynkyn de Worde
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February 5, 2018 by libroshombre
Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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Category: comics, icons, Uncategorized, words
| Tags: Anu Garg, calaboose, Charles Dana, Guys Read, mort walker, Nero Wolfe, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis