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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.

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Red Green: How to Do Everything (EBook, 2010)

It may not be great literature -- but at least it's handy. From the mastermind …

Lots of zingers that would sound better if Red read them himself.

I liked it, but it would probably be better as an audio book red by Red Green than as an eBook. I'd just feel like it would be more like he's pulling for us and we are all in it together.

Otherwise, some good one-liners (though like any good old-fogey his one-liners are longer than one-line).

Garrison Keillor: The Lake Wobegon virus (AudiobookFormat, 2021, Black stone aaudio)

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese …

It's the latest news from Lake Wobegon

Not Keillor's best work but you take what you can as far as Wobegon stories these days. With a title like that released in 2020 I thought it would be how covid effected the little town on the edge of the prairie. However there's no mention of social distancing, only one slight jab at masks, and instead a "virus" that infects people through unpasteurized Norwegian "Portuguese" cheese that makes folks act without inhibition. Folks act rather non-Minnesotan, then the city council brings in a therapist to try to help put things back in order.

Mary O. Daly: Creator and Creation (Paperback, Ye Hedge School) No rating

Neither Darwinian nor Creationist, this discussion of the concepts related to creation ranges from the …

So far I'm disappointed. I had been of the impression that this was Old Earth Creationism from a Catholic perspective, but so far its just be the same old "See, evolution is in line with Catholic teaching" stuff.