Lies My Teacher Told Me -
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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Saturday, 7 September 2024
quote [ Nobody knows the true motive behind Krishna Lal Adhikari's writing of Makaiko Kheti ("The Cultivation of Maize"). Was it merely an agricultural guide, or was it a veiled political satire aimed at mocking the then ruler of Nepal, Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana? ]
I don?t know where the maize fields grow
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Wednesday, 26 June 2024
quote [ The Cocaine Consumer's Handbook was published in 1976 and 1980. This user guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book. ]
Reading books, selling cocaine
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Sunday, 16 June 2024
quote [ In their original complaint, the publishers contended that the Internet Archive was not a library, but a ā??pirate siteā?:
Yeah no. The Internet Archive is a library. ] Some updates on this ā?? outcome at the end of June. To my knowledge, certain books are already set to preview mode only.
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Thursday, 13 June 2024
quote [ The Carolina Manga library is a nonprofit charity organization based in Southern United States. They are a mobile library that promotes the use of graphic novels, comics, and Japanese manga as tools for improving literacy. ]
Reported by my local library. It's nice to see that there are still people promoting books instead of banning them. I thought it was interesting that there were people rallying together to champion their favorite type of literature and the roving library concept was neat too.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2024
quote [ Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters? ]
I had to write the great American novel
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Give Directly -
This charity helps with what the extremely poor need. Money.
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Sunday, 5 May 2024
quote [ Vendors say they lost thousands of dollars after a confusing and chaotic book festival was misrepresented to them ]
40 on me like money at the book fair
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Friday, 3 May 2024
quote [ Kuchenā??A Love Story / Cool Jazz and Monochromes: The Paintings of Jamie Te Heuheu / Poetry / Reviews ]
Nice writer's mag from New Zealand you can read online, found via the grumpy story Heat Death of the Internet by Gregory Bennett
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Monday, 22 April 2024
quote [ Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. ]
That was a promise too interesting not to mention. Reminds me of this other gamey dialogue that reads the whole of Moby Dick to you (can't seem to find it, gladly). Via Fallen London newsletter.
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Monday, 8 April 2024
quote [ Without a distributor, presses like Black Lawrence and Noemi are completely cut off from their main sources of incomeā??and for some, SPD might have been the only affordable option left. ]
Ouch! news like these are hefty punches.
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Saturday, 9 March 2024
quote [ If itā??s a frivolous, relaxing book, I read every word. But serious books I read on the right-hand side only ]
That's a cool attitude, actually. (thumb)
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Codename: Clusterfuck -
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
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