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Peggy’s 2023 Year in Books
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An Unexpected Tug
Yesterday I pulled a book from my bookshelf, The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, edited by Timothy Ferris and Clifton Fadiman, one I found years ago at the Library Friends Book Sale and had never opened since. Throughout the day it occasionally drifted into my consciousness, which, interestingly, felt similar to how a crush develops, when someone at the periphery of your att
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The Joy of Their Holiness
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew:
"I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. And so many of them come at you with flashy promises: "Sell Your Novel In Thirty Days!"
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Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read:
"Brooks Landon's belief in long sentences goes against decades of teaching and advice. The dominant plain style prizes simplicity and clarity over elegance and eloquence. But Landon favors elaboration, and one type of long sentence—the cumulative, a d"
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“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.”
― The Grass Dancer
― The Grass Dancer
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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“There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think--which is fundamentally a moral problem--must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process.”
― Testament of Youth
― Testament of Youth
“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― Profiles in Courage
― Profiles in Courage
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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