#Books

I was hoping to have a bit more time before riding into the Culture Wars, but you all have forced my hand!Culture War topic of TODAY: great books!!!! You've heard
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#ILoveJKRowling #IStandWithJKRowling As a British man of 31 years old I grew up with Harry Potter, the first books I fell in love with. Inspired me to read more and
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A short thread of non-profit, free, public access, open source, projects I help work on:1/8 http://openlibrary.org  - @aaronsw's 1 web-page for every book at @internetarchive: 4M books to read &
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I'm seeing a lot of educators and parents online tonight, wondering what we should tell the kids about all of this. The answer, as always, is the truth. (thread) That
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Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" of 1665 invented and fueled the myth of the existance of a paper eating "book-worm". According to the inventor, the worm was "silver-shining" and "eats holes through
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Dolly Parton: “I don’t trust nobody with my money. I have lawyers, I have accountants, and I have people lookin out for each other. And then I go check my
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perhaps there is no phrase in the English language I hate with quite the same hate as "reading level" ......... THAT'S NOT A THING. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS READING
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Let’s be clear: while I have many members of my family who served in the military — dad and two uncles in Vietnam, grandfather in WW2, cousin in the national
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So I got into some Discord Discourse(TM) about this when someone mentioned Skyrim, but was hesitant to commit because of his use of mods, and i think there's really productive
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Thank you @salesses for writing 'Craft in the Real World' @CatapultStory. It articulated so many things that I’ve been thinking about for a while now, that I’ve been uncomfortable with
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tbh if we let kids read books on phones instead of forcing the physical ones they may be able to engage better/get thru more content. i’m reading a book on
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Here’s what you’ll need to prepare if you want to pitch yr academic book project to a publisher this year:1. A working title for the book. Don’t worry, you can
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1/A ridiculously fabulous well-known lesfic author DM-ed me recently. Chat chat chat blah blah she likes my writing wait what chat chat and meanwhile my fingers are trembling because I’m
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I was really lucky to be able to examine Darwin's type of Toxodon platensis (housed at the @NHM_London @NHMFossilMammal), which he purchased from a farmer in Uruguay when we was
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When I was an art student I was always firmly of the belief that art and politics do not mix (not fine art anyway, not sculpure, which is what I
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Lots of chatter a/b how we teach US history esp in K12, & there’s a point that would be helpful to keep in mind as we keep having these conversations:
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