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@KSPrior I just finished That Hideous Strength, and it seems like Lewis' highest praise for a character is that they "enjoy weather", and how we *really* know Feverstone is the worst sort, is that he doesn't.

How can I love summer so intensely, hate non-Daylight Savings Time so greatly, and yet still luxuriate so much in a late Sunday afternoon in November, too? 🥰

@zugzwanged How many disasters could have been avoided by looking a gift horse in the mouth.

When you receive a 'strong horse' as a gift horse, consider the possibility that it might be a Trojan horse.

@zugzwanged Peregrine falcons have also adapted quite well to cities.

Any ornithologists out there able to explain why it is pigeons of all birds that seem to have successfully colonized our architectural environment? What are all the other birds missing?

@suzania I used to have this, but it was replaced with a recurring dream that I went back to work (I've been a SAHM for over 7 years) and had a 7 year backlog of client emails to answer.

identical, and it never actually happened

@LeahLibresco My 2 yo is obsessed with the cover of Confederacy of Dunces and takes it off the shelf and flips through the pages whenever she gets the chance.

I had to leave the feverish 2.5yo alone for 20 min so I could put the baby down for her nap. When I returned, the only thing out of place was that she’d taken the Inferno off the bookshelf and brought it to the couch?!

@jeff_bilbro @Mister_Milligan Was your apple cider at least 5% acetic acid? If the acidity was off, that might explain the fermentation rather than pickling??

@Mister_Milligan 1 qt apple cider vinegar, 3 qts water, and 1 c salt. Plus dill and garlic.

Can someone explain to me why 1/3 of my canned pickle jars have bulging lids? When I open one, it fizzes as its built up substantial positive pressure. But they taste fine, and I haven't died. Yet.

@POTENTIALJUROR @AnikaFreeindeed I started reading it to my kids when the oldest was 4 or 5. Another great one for kids is: "Africa is not a Country".

@AnikaFreeindeed 😄

@singingscholar @joynessthebrave I'm almost finished reading my childhood copy to my 7 year old son! (The one by Roger Lancelyn Green). Which version do you have?

Morning! What are you reading?

@TheAlanNoble @LeahLibresco @AlexGodofsky The book Language at the Speed of Sight does a fantastic job of explaining the science of reading, why phonics works - and how the exceptions have rules!

@LeahLibresco @AlexGodofsky Phonics doesn’t make sense to me. I tried ti learn it that way but there were too many exceptions. When I learned Spanish in college I got it right away. But English? Nope.

Phonics is plausibly the thing I’m most wrong about that I can’t quite update on all the way. I know the data suggest it’s the best way to learn to read, so I’d endorse it, but I still have a (wrong) deep sense it’s too boring to work. time.com/6205084/phonic…

@SketchesbyBoze @TaraAnnThieke @roddreher In the FAQ it explains that this list is specifically for new books. Older lists of books can be downloaded and are still accessible and recommended. It's not the best design, but a little less alarming when viewed in context.

@TaraAnnThieke @roddreher I do wish we would heed C. S. Lewis's admonition that it's important to read old books

This is how we cut the final cords between every day before yesterday. A terrible rupture, stranding the present generation in an eternal, terrible Year Zero

@moveincircles Charlotte's web (trumpet of the swan was a little too much for my 6 year old) Wizard of Oz Pippi Longstocking Half Magic Catwings The Railway Children Enchanted castle Little house (especially farmer boy) Just so stories Anything by Roger Lancelyn Green (myths and Robin Hood)

Twitter friends with kids, please help me make a list of classic chapter books for reading to an imaginative 6yo. We’ve done Narnia, Borrowers, Faraway Tree & have Jungle Book & some Nesbit lined up. There’s so much rubbish out there, please suggest good stories we can both enjoy

@SketchesbyBoze @BrandyLJensen

@BrandyLJensen Jeremy Brett would like a word

seems so unlikely that the best Sherlock adaptation is Elementary but one must be willing to accept the facts

@saramblings @stephjudd I was going to recommend this one, too!

@stephjudd We love this one! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children a.co/d/0WjdEoO

@suzania Whew! Thanks! Excited for some good summer reading

@suzania So, wait - was Jacques Ellul the beautiful writer that was an experience to read? 'cause I already added Deschooling Society to my ThriftBooks cart....

Susannah remember the difference between Jacques Ellul and Ivan Illich for more than 5 seconds challenge difficulty level: impossible

@Tish_H_Warren Patagonia, pact, organic basics, united by blue, and girlfriend collective are some that I've heard good things about.

Is there a name for this?

Weird moral reasoning I see: "I disagree w/ *objectionable thing*, but *this person I disagree w/* thinks that it's good as long as it doesn't apply to them. I now want *the morally/ethically objectionable thing* to apply to this person to give them a taste of their own medicine"

@Tish_H_Warren I had to read the book for a college class. It freaked me out (still does) how many men LOVE the story and think its something to emulate, rather than a horror story of the utter sickness of toxic masculinity. (Don't have the stomach to watch the movie)

@AstorAaron @publicroad May I suggest the chapter on the criminalization of mothers in Just Mercy? I'm not sure this attitude is helpful or constructive...(and I'm very pro-vax.)

@publicroad A mother who doesn't vaccinate is subjecting her children to a disease that SHE will likely have brought into the home. Her ignorance is child abuse.

Wow, significant and alarming gap here: Just half of moms with children at home say they have been or plan to get vaccinated; that's 17 points lower than women without kids at home, and 18 points lower than dads with kids at home. #section-21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">morningconsult.com/covid19-vaccin…