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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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to …
Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re …
picked it up while the kids were playing at the library
What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want …
My wife had been homeschooling, or perhaps unschooling, our kids for years now. I go back and forth on how I feel about it. These kinds of books help me keep things in perspective. Nancy Wallaces first book was about how she got her kid out of public school in the 80s when that was a thing in the states. We don't have that problem now. It was beneficial to see her going through the same troubles I have and wondering if they are doing enough. I kept wondering how these kids would survive in 2020s. We'll I emailed one of them and asked. To my surprise I got a reply same day. I still have a hard time thinking of art as a meaningful career, even more so now that I feel my oldest is going down that path, but if I support and let her make hey own …
My wife had been homeschooling, or perhaps unschooling, our kids for years now. I go back and forth on how I feel about it. These kinds of books help me keep things in perspective. Nancy Wallaces first book was about how she got her kid out of public school in the 80s when that was a thing in the states. We don't have that problem now. It was beneficial to see her going through the same troubles I have and wondering if they are doing enough. I kept wondering how these kids would survive in 2020s. We'll I emailed one of them and asked. To my surprise I got a reply same day. I still have a hard time thinking of art as a meaningful career, even more so now that I feel my oldest is going down that path, but if I support and let her make hey own friends with people of all ages, she'll do just fine. 4 stars.
What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want to do rather than what …
The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, …
This work was well written. I would say I liked it three stars. Definitely left me feeling uneasy, and honestly quite hopeless. In part I think that is what the author was going for. A speculative fiction work based in a North American society that has taken Calvinist fundamentalism to the extreme. Including, but not limited to, forbidding "baren" wives from fornicating with their husbands, instead forcing a "hand maid' to move in in which they have a breeding ceremony once a month to try to impregnate her with everyone watching. Its been said that when Atwood only put things in here that already existed somewhere in the world in 1980s. Maybe in Iran? I'm not sure. Seems far-fetched even for such repressive regimes. I was disappointed that the story kind of just ended. Nothing resolved, and it certainly wasn't happy (or maybe it was, we really don't know). The …
This work was well written. I would say I liked it three stars. Definitely left me feeling uneasy, and honestly quite hopeless. In part I think that is what the author was going for. A speculative fiction work based in a North American society that has taken Calvinist fundamentalism to the extreme. Including, but not limited to, forbidding "baren" wives from fornicating with their husbands, instead forcing a "hand maid' to move in in which they have a breeding ceremony once a month to try to impregnate her with everyone watching. Its been said that when Atwood only put things in here that already existed somewhere in the world in 1980s. Maybe in Iran? I'm not sure. Seems far-fetched even for such repressive regimes. I was disappointed that the story kind of just ended. Nothing resolved, and it certainly wasn't happy (or maybe it was, we really don't know). The author did TRY to add a little with a summary of a future historian looking back on this as if it were a collection of historical events.
The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly …
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
On hold at the public library. I've been actively looking forward to this one from several years now, I hope it delivers.
On hold at the public library. I've been actively looking forward to this one from several years now, I hope it delivers.
@amin@polymaths.social I have no idea if your site actually has anything to do with mathematics but I thought of you.
What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want …
Mathematics," he wrote, "is a human endeavor — it's what mathematicians do. The stuff that ends up in the textbooks is the result of their work. Similarly, the black lines and dots that musicians read are not themselves music, though we often call them that. Music is what the people are doing.... Both mathematics and music are activities. One does mathematics. One makes music....
— Child's Work by Nancy Wallace (Page 86)
Chicanos, blacks and whites ... they all met together in a special forum in Bakersfield, Calif., to discuss minority groups. Their conclusion: each has developed its own proud identity, but whites, including Christian students, are still prejudiced. As a result, some barriers are tougher to crack than ever. All the rhetoric about equality and acceptance needs to be translated into action.
— The Way (Page 1,058)
This was commentary in the 1970s and it may actually be worse now 50 years later. Growing up in the 90s I recall only anti-racism in Christian circles (though that may have been a regional thing, or a youth who didn't recognize). But in the 2020s I see many proclaiming to be Christian, while also proclaiming some of the most hateful things imagined. God heal your church.
This was commentary in the 1970s and it may actually be worse now 50 years later. Growing up in the 90s I recall only anti-racism in Christian circles (though that may have been a regional thing, or a youth who didn't recognize). But in the 2020s I see many proclaiming to be Christian, while also proclaiming some of the most hateful things imagined. God heal your church.
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: …
Picked back up after finishing Handmaid's Tale.
Picked back up after finishing Handmaid's Tale.
I some how managed to misplace this book. At least its mine and not a library book I guess.
The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly …
What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want …
I need to keep reading these to convince myself that unschooling our kids is fine.
