𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮:

What are you studying for? Need some practice tests and guides? Most libraries have databases and networks for GMAT, AP, IB, SAT, and dozens of others! (and still free!)

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 -

Two essays which move reader into discomfiture: how much of what we read and how we think about it is selected to assuage, to cater even to liberal sense of "comfort"?

𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮:

Many libraries have eBooks and audiobooks for loan to your favorite reading device! Why are you paying money to Audible or Kindle or Nook when you can borrow and read or listen for free? Save some money and read and listen more! Talk to your librarian about their approach!

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few of the books I'm reading this month!

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 -

Lispector' s posthumous work explores religion, creation, imagination, humility, and so much more as an author explores his relationship with a character he creates.

https://youtu.be/jpOMN8pCurg

You have to lead up to a question like that slowly, over a period of 20-50 years

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I reviewed “NORSE MYTHS THAT INSPIRED FFVII” from M.J. Gallagher in today’s newsletter

https://thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-game-library-newsletter

In a weird way, this book was an inspiration to starting The Video Game Library project

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗳 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗸 -

Shafak's mystical novel of nature consciousness and broad romance centers around a single struggling fig cutting in a London apartment . . . or around what we understand of it.

Is there such a thing as liking things too much? Yes, yes there is

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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕: "𝑹𝒖𝒅𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑲𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈'𝒔 '𝑰𝒇' & 𝑰𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒚-𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 -

Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/kiplings-if-and-irony-hunting

What about adults on books, I feel discriminated against

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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸𝗼 -

Silko's short, surreal, slow burn of a spiritual journey into native resistance and trauma healing is subtle and redemptive.

https://youtu.be/5c1e4VH7Has

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗥𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗭𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘆 -

Fulfilling and thwarting classic genre tropes, Grey's novel entertains in its landscapes and surprises in its resolutions.

The Silent Reading Room is open for the next 52 minutes - come read with us in friendly silence.

https://discord.gg/74E4gkrm

I'm about to move to a laptop rather than my desktop, in the runup to a house move.

Today, I run #Debian #Stable (#bookworm) and the #XFCE desktop. That is all fine and dandy and fits my needs.

The question is whether to try something new. Be that underlying #distro or desktop.

I have tried many times to move away from #Debian. But the stability of stable is difficult to argue with. I have also tried many different desktops. Be that

Gnome, KDE, or Cinnamon.
All of these exhibit problem areas, for me at least.

With Gnome, the Files application is so limited that I end up installing #thunar from #XFCE. Plus, I have to add a handful of extensions to make things more readily useful to me.

With Cinnamon, it's largely okay except for the file browser again. Too slow.

KDE looks pretty, and some of the applets are cool. But stability suffers.

Should I stay with the tried and tested, or is there something out there that has all the features and stability of #Debian #Stable with #XFCE.

I feel like this is trick by the Big Book industry to give me more books, no, wait...

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