2 year old skateboarding
Pffft yeah he’s a badass on a skateboard, but I’m like 98% more accurate on the potty.
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CROSSETTCOPIA
"I've been in bigger libraries, but none that I can say, have been better libraries."
--Jonathan Marc Sherman, '90
They’re not wrong.
Yeah, I’m seeing no inaccuracies here.
How did they know?
Who leaked this to the kids?
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Gay male artist (writer) aging in a Western European country befriends a young protégée for whom he lusts? *Yawn*
At least that’s what I thought until I got to Chapter Two and the whole narrative took off. Having come from The Heart’s Invisible Furies, I had a completely different sense of Boyne’s writing style. And I walked right down that path for the first chapter thinking I had the whole book mapped out. But instead Boyne turns the whole thing around, and leaves you flipping pages furiously, trying to hurry your eyes to move faster, brain to absorb faster. I walked into my daughters swim practice with 100 pages to go and 75 minutes to read. The entire practice I had one eye on the book and one on the clock, praying that I’d finish it in time because there’s no way I could pause over the last 50 pages.
An absolutely great piece of writing, a psychodrama with Boyne’s fingerprints all over it.
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I’ve never seen the movie version of Contact, so I’m not sure how much of the book tracks with the movie. Which is to say that if you didn’t like the movie, don’t prejudge the book as I’m guessing that they’ve dropped a lot of the deeper dialogue that made Contact fantastic.
I think the most analogous book I’ve read would be Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, although Carl Sagan doesn’t ascribe to the satire that Vonnegut excels in. Rather the book well traverses the intersection between Science and Religion, particularly in the grandness of the universe. Halloway’s excursions to meet with the religious leaders Billy Jo Raskin and Palmer Joss, and then her individual conversations with Joss and Hadden really allow Sagan to transform the novel out of the bounds of “science fiction” and make the whole greater than its parts.
Frequently when I read books I’m looking for plot development, and Contact certainly had some of that, even being listed as a Top 100 Thrillers for the ending. But while the ending was satisfying, I again have to identify the various conversations that Halloway has with the other luminaries as the highlights of the book. I think those could be separately clipped and, without any knowledge of the broader book, be studied as entities unto themselves as guideposts for the continued clash between science and religion.
A really excellent work and well worth the time.
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We Need Librarians More Than Ever by John Spencer
“It’s true that the information landscape has changed. It is easier than ever to create a work and publish it to the world and with a tap of a button, we access information from anywhere at any time. But actually, that’s why librarians are more vital than ever.”
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Maybe start with training them not to eat the people they find, THEN work on the sniffing them out part.
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This book was a little bit of a mixed bag. I found the overall storyline to be relatively captivating* with some interesting passages discussing the ramifications of time travel - affect on the present, diverging time streams, etc. However I frequently felt, this being the 29th book in the Discworld series, that I was missing broader storylines. While the two main characters were somewhat fleshed out, there were a lot of details that felt glossed over. The beginning of the book references lilacs, which through the passage of the book left me unsure if it was a reference to another part of the Discworld series, before making a callback appearance at the end. But that sorta set the tone for the entire book - you feel like you’re enjoying it, but aren’t sure how much you’re supposed to understand or not understand about the various characters. For instance there are a group of monks, for lack of a better term, and they seem like icebergs in the book - you get 10% and it seems like 90% is hidden. I’m not sure if that was purposeful by Pratchett, or whether their storyline has already been explored in one of the first 28 books.
So while Night Watch is, on the whole, a good novel, if you haven’t read the first 28 in the series you’re going to feel like you’re walking on unsteady ground.
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The Donna Tartt Interview in The Bennington Voice, October 28, 1992.
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Starting off this book, I really was worried I’d have cavities from how sugary sweet it would be. I mean, popular teenage girl dies and then relives that same last day over and over trying to undo her wrongs? I’d expect to see that plot description as an after-school special.
However, it actually turned out to be a pretty good book! The main character was better developed than I expected. There were good reveals about the surrounding characters that also provided depth but still felt true to life. And the final chapter, appreciating the small bits of life and saying goodbye to family and friends who don’t know it’s the final goodbye - it was some real heartbreaking writing.
I mean, this book won’t enter the pantheon of Great American Novels, however it’s a good summer read and may find a good audience in middle to high school students, particularly females. I’m not in that category, but still was worth my reading time.
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In American vernacular architecture, a witch window (also known as a Vermont window, among other names) is a window (usually a double-hung sash window, occasionally a single-sided casement window) placed in the gable-end wall of a house and rotated approximately 1/8 of a turn (45 degrees) from the vertical, leaving it diagonal, with its long edge parallel to the roof slope.
Witch windows are found almost exclusively in or near the U.S. state of Vermont, generally in the central and northern parts of the state.They are principally installed in farmhouses from the 19th century.
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