@airgibbo Greetings to a handsome cat and Wishes for a very Happy Birthday!
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Linda Roberts
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Linda Roberts
@Lindarsey
Teacher of 8th to 12th grade boys at a boarding school
Rippon, WV Katılım Temmuz 2012
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reading is such a quiet act, but it does loud things to your mind. entire worlds collapse and rebuild inside you without anyone noticing.🥺
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Après avoir médité des années de philosophie et de théologie, je suis obligé de reconnaitre que ce qu'il y a de plus élevé, c'est définitivement la poésie.
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This on-going @rickwtyler @ @JulieMasonShow1 The Daily Beast retracts story linking Melania Trump to Epstein poynter.org/commentary/202…
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Good for him!
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?
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Amazing collectors Dr Seuss in the shop! Really would love for this to go to a good home.
theforgottenbookshop.com/dr-seuss-the-c…
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Friends, we have Nancy Drew books! The lady who brought them in said she’d read every single one as a child after finding them in her grandmother’s attic. She said she carried a blanket and pillow and made herself a reading nook by the attic window. When books have stories and have been well loved there’s something even better about them. Just search for “Nancy drew” at theforgottenbookshop.com
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Had three young men, college students on spring break, pop in today. They talked about Shakespeare and sci fi and bought copies of Othello and Plato. Don’t believe anyone who says there is no hope for the future!
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Quite a few people asked me about this bookshop kit after I posted this. Well, I have one at the shop and you can win it by purchasing a raffle ticket (and supporting a pretty little bookshop in the process)!
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Rebecca 📖@Avonleebythesea
I just went into my office to get some work done and found that my daughter had put together this little bookshop kit and left it on my desk. And isn’t just wonderful? Each little piece had to be hand glued and assembled, down to the pictures in the frames.
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It is true that publishers do shoulder some of the blame for the scarcity of good children’s literature, but you can still find beautiful books at reasonable prices through used bookstores and can fortunately still request most things from your local library. I happen to own a little bookshop, and here’s a small sampling of some of the wonderful stuff we carry. Also, used bookshops will not have poorly made print on demand books. Theforgottenbookshop.com
MinionsOfDozer@DozerDozerian
@Avonleebythesea This problem is downstream from publishers. If there's even a version of these in a kids section of the bookstore it's some barely recognizable adaptation. You can't read what you can't obtain.
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We just received the most thoughtful review. My kids and I have poured our hearts into this little shop over the past year and it’s so nice to see it’s appreciated. Brought tears to my eyes that someone took the time out of their day to write this.
Theforgottenbookshop dot com
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My brother Richard had a terrible tractor accident on the farm. He is in ICU of the RVH, Belfast where he's critical. Please join with us in praying for him. Thanks for your kind messages.
But I will restore you to health
and heal your wounds,’
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 30:17a
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14 year old kid in my neighborhood came by my house.
Very sharp. Polite, “Yes Sir” and “No Sir”. Business card and everything.
Offered to power wash, soap, and clean out my garbage cans.
$25/can.
I said, sure. Why not. They’re gross. I’ve got 2, so gave him $50.
I asked how many houses he did in our neighborhood.
“All of them. About 60.”
And how often do you do them?
“I try to do quarterly.”
$3000 a quarter for a freshman.
Of course…he also does power washing, snow shoveling, window cleaning, all of the above.
Building a mailing list and referrals. Said he’s recruited two friends to help him do the work.
Savvy kid. Going to do well in this world.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis on April 9, 1945 at the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
A camp doctor who was there gave this eyewitness account:
“On the morning of that day between five and six o’clock the prisoners, including Admiral Canaris, General Oster and state attorney Dr. Sack were taken from their cells and the verdicts of the court martial read out to them. Through the half-open door in one room of the huts, I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer, and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.”
Bonhoeffer's last recorded words: "This is the end—for me the beginning of life."
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I lost my father to cancer on Monday. Today and tomorrow we’ll lay him to rest.
He came to #Ametica from #Communist #Romania in 1959. He served in the #Army at #FtJackson during his naturalization. He built a life as an engineer, husband, father and grandfather from nothing.
He loved his life here, and did everything he did for family. He’ll be greatly missed.
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@Connorpoleary Reading is so important. I read a lot, for how serious most of what I read is. 20-30 books a year.
Both my (almost) adult kids read a lot. Especially one, she has a bookstagram account and gets free books etc. I think kids learn to read if parents read and read to them.
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@Connorpoleary There is such an assumption that one has a smartphone always with them that people are surprised if you don't respond to them immediately.
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A friend of mine—intelligent, went to a great school, has a great job—admitted to me that she can’t read anymore. She was a bookworm in her youth, but she struggles to read more than two pages now.
I found myself developing this issue about a year ago. I would read a page and then have an overwhelming urge to check my email or open Twitter or text someone. Only solution was to put my phone in another room and commit to reading for a minimum of 1 hour. After about 5 pages I get engrossed, but for the first few minutes I still feel the pull of the smartphone.
But I think part of the reason I can still get into a reading flow is because I spent my childhood doing it. I know what it’s like to really get lost in a book; I have the muscle memory. I shudder to think how difficult developing a reading habit might have been if I had grown up with smartphones. Very possible I’d never have read much. What an impoverished life.
And yes, civilizationally dangerous.
Brandon Zicha@ProfBZZZ
A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.
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