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axxuy.xyz
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| | | | Public libraries are great and I love them[^1]. I can choose books there much more freely than my budget allows me to at bookstores. But they are, alas, not perfect. They're fine for the shorter books; I've checked out many books of short stories or poems and some of the breezier nonfiction. But I stay away from the big books, even the ones I would like to read. The trouble of course is that you do have to bring the books back, and sooner than later. I feel cramped by the due dates. I hate to say it, but libraries just aren't a good fit for those big, dense, chewy books. The books that you need to take a lot of time with, the looks that you want to take a lot of time with. | |
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teenlibrarian.co.uk
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| | | | A few days ago in a fit of gallows humour after reading too much of the Project 2025 policy document I made a social media post referencing the Guantánamo Bay Library Association as one of the many... | |
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fountainpenchronicles.blog
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| | | | It's a new month, so what's in your pen cup? Time to shelve your current choice of pens in favor of new pens. Don't let those long-forgotten and neglected pens develop a complex. Also, let's review how the pens from last month fared? And the obligatory recap of the prior month's posts. | |
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helluvatimesblog.wordpress.com
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| | Lily of the Incas 'Indian Summer' (Alstroemeria) blooming in the shade of an Olive tree in the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua. |