Ji FU wants to read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a …
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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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Ji FU quoted The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten
The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for …
I consider the story, the anecdotes, the joke, a teaching instrument of unique efficiency. A joke is a structured, compact narrative that makes a point with power, generally by surprise. A good story is exceedingly hard for anyone to forget. It is therefore an excellent pedagogical peg on which to hang a point. Those who do not use stories when they try to explain or communicate are either inept at telling them or blindly forfeit a tool of great utility.
— The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten, Lawrence Bush
Page xxii
Ji FU commented on The Lost World by George Guidall (Jurassic Park, #2)
The Lost World revisits the Central American site of the Jurassic Park fiasco. It has …
Still only in part one, but already doesn't feel as good as the first one.
Still only in part one, but already doesn't feel as good as the first one.
Ji FU started reading The Lost World by George Guidall (Jurassic Park, #2)
The Lost World revisits the Central American site of the Jurassic Park fiasco. It has …
Trying this mobile thing
Ji FU wants to read Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
This groundbreaking book mixes psychology and history to provide a picture of an increasingly nonviolent …
When [social] media makes it feel like the world is getting more violent and authoritarian, let us review how it is actually becoming a more free and peaceful world.
Ji FU started reading The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten
The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten, Lawrence Bush
The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence …
Ji FU commented on Lamar Hunt by Michael MacCambridge
The definitive and official biography of one of the 20th century's most important and beloved …
Sometimes I feel my reviews read more like book reports.
Ji FU commented on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very …
I'm almost a quarter of the way through and our protagonist hasn't even been born yet. It's a slog. Some of the longest sentences I have ever read. They are elongated by semicolons, ellipses, and dashes. The narrator keeps interrupting his story to mention his discussions with his wife about this part of the story. So far I don't feel it adds to the book at all. I'm hoping it gets better after our main character shows up.
I'm almost a quarter of the way through and our protagonist hasn't even been born yet. It's a slog. Some of the longest sentences I have ever read. They are elongated by semicolons, ellipses, and dashes. The narrator keeps interrupting his story to mention his discussions with his wife about this part of the story. So far I don't feel it adds to the book at all. I'm hoping it gets better after our main character shows up.
Ji FU quoted Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very …
The insurance money came; January ended; and in time it took to close down their affairs in Delhi and move to the city in which - Dr Narlikat the gynecologist knew - property was temporarily as cheap as dirt, my mother concentrated on her segmented scheme to love her husband.
— Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Page 90)
What the heck does "cheap as dirt" mean? Property is dirt and anyone who has tried to buy a peice of dirt knows it ain't cheap.
What the heck does "cheap as dirt" mean? Property is dirt and anyone who has tried to buy a peice of dirt knows it ain't cheap.
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Ji FU started reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted …
Ji FU started reading Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly
Creator and Creation by Mary O. Daly
Neither Darwinian nor Creationist, this discussion of the concepts related to creation ranges from the doctrinal, through the scriptural, the …