This is such sad news. She was a fierce advocate for so much.
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This is such sad news. She was a fierce advocate for so much.
Nice profile(s)!
... but they'll be keeping track of how many and what kind of feedback they get from constituents, so let your representatives know what you think, even if you think they'll be on the wrong side. If the public is strongly enough against it, they'll eventually stop supporting it.
Contacted all three of my congress critters today with "What is Congress going to do about this?" messages about the President's illegal attack on Venezuela. All three are Republicans, so I fear they'll say they support it...
I can see the café scene now: Harry, Bess, Sonia, and Howard.
Beautiful!
Retired tech editor here: I don’t find reading for pleasure or info on a Kindle significantly different from reading a paper book; but reading to edit on a screen is much harder as eyesight worsens with age, & mistakes definitely get missed that I would catch if I were marking up a paper manuscript.
In no particular order:
David Copperfield
Tarzan of the Apes
Tom Sawyer
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How did THE DARK HEART OF TIME hold up on rereading? When it was first published, I thought it fit well between UNTAMED and TERRIBLE, and it was more like a book by ERB than were the others of Farmer's Tarzan-related books.
Acquiring the skill of blowing smoke rings (like Bilbo and Gandalf) was almost enough incentive for me to take up the pipe. Almost. The closest I get is candy cigarettes on a frosty morning.
My father had a deer feeder near his home to lure deer for his & step-mom’s viewing enjoyment (he didn’t hunt). They would come up soon after sunset. When bow hunting season began, their schedule changed to midnight feeding instead.
Also: check the outside pets for ticks with special care.
To me, that makes them “fingerless mittens,” but I know that lots of folks say “fingerless gloves” for both conditions. My husband makes lots of fingerless gloves, & sometimes he uses a fingerless mitten pattern & adapts it for fingerless gloves (individual openings for 5 digits instead of 2).
Are those made with individual fingers (4+thumb) or two openings (all fingers+thumb)?
There were also plenty of poor farming people who saw emigration from England as a way to become independent farmers with their own land.
A very welcome book report.
I'm reminded of Heinlein's publisher insisting he cut STRANGER from 220K words to 150K. He managed 160K, and thought it was a better book for it. After his death, the 220K was published. There are good things in it that I enjoyed; but to my mind, the version he sweated over to cut IS a better read.
Having lived all my life in Texas, both rural and suburban environments, but also visited the Starkville area for extended visits most of my 72 years, I think you're mistaken about that. What Abbott is trying to lead TX into is even worse than that from which Starkville has long striven to emerge.
This is such good news! You and your generous nature are one of the reasons not to give up on social media! And your little dog, too!
I even got a German edition of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (DER WINTERKAISER) to read so I could read it twice in a row without feeling guilty about neglecting some other reading. It is so good. And the other books set elsewhere in that world are so good as well.
Looks like you really needed that! I know I did! Thanks, Liam!
Maybe a general preference for "amok" because it has nothing to do with "muck," which remains in fairly common usage?
I re-read the first two books, then read the others for the first time, in anticipation of this one. It was one of the best, I thought.
the short stories Asimov later turned into FOUNDATION were mostly written before 1949, when Heinlein published the ground-breaking "Delilah and the Space Rigger."
I fell out of the habit of reading his books sometimes in the late 80's. I'd be interested if the books he wrote after he remarried (to a female SF writer) did a little better with women characters. It shouldn't be surprising how women come off in FOUNDATION--it was conceived in the early 1940s, &
It was cloudy here so I didn't get to go outside and look for Saturn. I'll give it a shot tonight!
What? No lederhosen?
She should have asked William Frawley.
Do you suppose the same mental/linguistic thing is going on when we hear rhymes like “calf/math” as when we easily understand someone like the Dodger when he speaks in his heavy cockney accent?
