Tag: Books
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“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.”
“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book
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Dust Cover Portraits of the Late 70s
This is what I remember every portrait of an author or academic being like on the backs of all those used books I used to read from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. And, a variation: There was also the leaning back in chair, sports jacket wide open with a big gut and wild hair, waving…
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Paper: when the message demands the medium
Robin Sloan contemplates the _ The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons_: It occurred to me, deep into a really wonderful experience, of reading and thinking and feeling and pondering, that if Wizards of the Coast had published exactly the same material online — and you can imagine this easily: you can imagine the website, as slick…
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The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet – “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
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Treat your to-read pile like a river – ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with…
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Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) and David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) The Interior of a Picture Gallery Around 1640
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an activity to break up the wine drinking
“The last thing I bought and loved was a sauna. It came on a truck from Sweden. It looks like a little troll barrel and I have it in my garden by one of the two lakes. It’s admittedly a faff, because you have to build a fire, then come back in the house and wait for it to heat…
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The last in a six part series. I haven’t this many books, so quickly in a long time. It was fun! The Devil You Know by Erin M. Evans 📚
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