Ours had said they'd be forced to cut hours, I think as drastically as cutting all Saturday and Sunday hours . . . I had thought they'd actually done that, but their website says otherwise. At least for now.
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Ours had said they'd be forced to cut hours, I think as drastically as cutting all Saturday and Sunday hours . . . I had thought they'd actually done that, but their website says otherwise. At least for now.
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Gwen says hers is charging a great deal for DVDs these days, too. More than she can generally afford to pay, so she's just not watching DVDs much at all unless her family owns them. She has a lot of surly political things to say on the subject. It just strikes me that libraries are a low priority, financially speaking, for a lot of people. Probably those are people who don't realize how many things libraries provide for the people who don't make the decisions about budgeting.
In fact, I am currently reading the library's copy of Justinian's Flea.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Just finished China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh.
Next up will be No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop. I know I read it but that was a looong time ago and really can't remember much.
Ah, Time, you traitor.
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I'm reading John Glenn: A Memoir by John Glenn and Nick Taylor. Not a very creative title, but I am enjoying the book.
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As you may remember, I mentioned not too long ago that I'd read them for the first time. I'd recommend them to pretty much anyone.Originally Posted by Fazor
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As for myself, I've not been reading any books the last week or so, what with GothCon and all, but my brother gave me a collection of short stories by a certain Anders Fager, a man I know better as an inveterate wargamer and game designer! The to-read stack keeps growing.
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I'm tired of reading.
Seriously.
Don't let your reality checks bounce. ~MeI'll tell you in the next life, when we are both cats.
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When one is tired of reading, one is tired of life.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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You might have a point there, Gillianren.
Don't let your reality checks bounce. ~MeI'll tell you in the next life, when we are both cats.
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and so the suicide rate on Ursa Minor Beta quadrupled overnight.
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Just finished reading Butcher's "Changes"... and I can't wait until the next one. Good thing there's an anthology coming out in a few months, but it's a year or so before the next novel.
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Alas, I'm 18 in line for that, and the library only has nine copies.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Finally got started on The Princess Bride y'dy. Only read a handful of books since I said I was going to do so ...
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Finishing Games of the Hangman, Rules of the Hunt and The Devil's Footprint are up next (by Victor O'Reilly). Have also read Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh.
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I just started reading No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos. Not my usual sort of book, but I was curious.
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Drood by Dan Simmons.
It seems to be some kind of murder/mystery/horror narrated by Wilkie Collins with Charles Dickens as the protagonist.
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Wasn't he on The Daily Show a while back?
I'm re-reading a bunch of my Vorkosigan books.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Yes, he was on the Daily Show on March 8. I watch the Daily Show almost every night.
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I´ve never posted to this thread because I´m always reading something [and often various books at a time]. But I´ve found an interesting story in Umberto Eco´s "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana", about a man who loses his episodic memory due to a stroke, and tries to recover it by exploring objects and books in his family´s country villa. An Eulogy of books and comic strips. Recommended.
(*) Beware of the spoilers on the Wikipedia.
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I watch it four nights a week!Yes, he was on the Daily Show on March 8. I watch the Daily Show almost every night.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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That's what I meant, LOL. The Daily Show is kind of a misnomer that way.
Speaking of the book, the page I just read says about Madoff, "But nobody admitted they were doing business with him. It was as if he had walked through Times Square naked in the middle of a summer afternoon and no one admitted seeing him. He was the ultimate mystery man." I could have done without that image!
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alas, we don't read...
but Unberto Eco being what he is (or what we think he is!)
it must be a most excellent choice
(especially in the light that one wants acclamation only from the right sort of people
e oui... chercher la femme... thème éternel ...
what ever your life's quest: we wish you good fortune...
and are back where we belong:
sub-surface
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Lol, Good one.
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But how then can you live?
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Reductionist and proud of it.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. Mark Twain
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The Religion of the Greeks and Romans, Kerényi
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The Russians (nonfiction), by Hedrick Smith.
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I recently picked up the first five volumes of the Marvel comic version of Ender's Shadow; now I'll have to get the book too.
In the meanwhile, I'm reading the first Percy Jackson to see if it's anything worth following.
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Well, that story didn't turn out the way I had imagined it would. Good book.
Yes, I'm just now finishing it - I'm a slow reader.
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You're faster than me. I'm only one page in. Granted mine's in Spanish, and I no speaky the spanish well. Mostly I haven't given it a shot yet, because I'm still reading 'Origins' and 'Journals from the Voyages of the HMS Beagle', as well as this Russian introductory book. And I'm slow.
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I'm going to have plenty of time to read today. I have an appointment with my doctor in a little over an hour, and even though I'll be there fairly early in the day, there's no telling how long I'm going to have to wait. Not to mention the bus there and back. I should get through Ethan of Athos, and I may switch from the Barrayar and start Bart D. Ehrman's The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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