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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary | David Diamond, Linus Torvalds
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Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his creation LINUX is used by over 12 million people as well as by companies such as IBM. Now, in a narrative that zips along with the speed of e-mail, Torvalds gives a history of his renegade software while candidly revealing the quirky mind of a genius. The result is an engrossing portrayal of a man with a revolutionary vision, who challenges our values and may change our world.
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Wan.der.love
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1. Lol...brownies. Or chocolate coconut macaroons 🍫🥥
2. Usually no
3. 😒 yes
4. Podcasts, but really want to try some audio books

#friyayintro

DrexEdit Thanks for the follow @Wan.der.love! Looking forward to talking books and reading with you! 😊 👋 6y
BookwormAHN Welcome to Litsy 😺 6y
Wan.der.love @DrexEdit back at ya!! Thank you!! 6y
Wan.der.love @BookwormAHN thanks so much!! 6y
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Wan.der.love
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1. Currently rearranging to be by time period written ⏳
2. Depends on what the reader is into - my vote would be classics like The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey - Agee with @Erofan dictionary is crucial!
3. I do for sure
4. Yes, mainly at library book sales. I‘ve picked up several Jane Austen copies as they have so much cover variation. I also splurge on the new illustrated version of Harry Potter series, slowly collecting
#onlyreadersunderstand

inthegreensandblues I also have multiple editions of my Austen faves. I have the HP series in ebook and audio and have been agonising for years over which print editions to collect because there are too many, I can't decide! The illustrated are wonderful though. 6y
Wan.der.love @inthegreensandblues I think I‘ll always have Austen books lying around my house 😂 nightstand, coffee table, bookshelves. Have been wanting to try the HP audio versions, they have to be amazing. Highly recommend illustrated - so gorgeous 😍 6y
readinginthedark Always good to have some classics on hand! 6y
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MerinEliza Wow i never thought of arranging books by time periods. That's a great idea. 6y
Wan.der.love @MerinEliza I studied history at university so it‘s always fascinating to me to see how things like literature and art were affected by the time period 😄 also stole the idea from a bookstore I recently stumbled upon 6y
MerinEliza Ah history lovers always love time periods. Yes it is fun to see the writing change with time. Also how people if that time period saw themselves as opposed to how we thought they lived. 6y
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SassyBookworm
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1.) The Book Thief, The Lost For Words Bookshop, and Radio Girls
2.) Chapstick & recipes
3.) August 6
4.) Historical Fiction & YA

#JustBecause

Insightsintobooks Radio Girls is on kindle for 1.99 right now... 6y
JennyM The lost for words bookshop is such a lovely read. 6y
StephanieGeiser Ooo recipes! That‘s a good one! I collect those too 😊 6y
SassyBookworm @Insightsintobooks thank you! I just finished the audiobook it was so good! 6y
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readingjedi
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1. Just one - from my daughter to her Daddy.
2. Reveal my legs?!?! Are you insane?! Black skinny jeans At All Times!
3. To play - neither. To watch - golf, it's easier to ignore!
4. A black cherry creme brulee made with Greek yoghurt. A Delia Smith recipe, I think. This is my best dessert. It is also my only dessert. #notadomesticgoddess

@BarbaraTheBibliophage
#sassysunday

BarbaraTheBibliophage Thanks for playing along! Love your answers. Need a link for that recipe. Stat!! 😍 6y
Cathythoughts Anything with Greek yogurt!! Yes please 6y
TheLibrarian Black skinny jeans are the best! 6y
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BookNAround
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I found this on the Savannah Book Festival Twitter the other day. Wanna try? Replace/embed an animal name into authors‘ or poets‘ names. They got some good ones tweeted in response. Here were mine: Natalie Rabbitt, Charles Chickens, Perseal Shelley, Samuel Coltridge, Elizabeth Parrott Browning, and Alfred, Lord Hennyson.

PolaroidPoet Here are mine... F. Scott Fitzbearald, Emily Duckison, Robird Frost, Geoffrey Chaushrew, Sylvia Platypus, T.S. Elephant, Langstork Hughes. How fun! Haha 7y
Heideschrampf ... Seal Gaiman, J Ara Tolkien, Simone de Beaver, Sting-Ray Bradbury, Paul Oyster, Stephen Hawk(ing), Mary Wollschaf Shelley, Ken Fowlett, Bram Storker... #loveit #animalauthors (edited) 7y
BookNAround @PolaroidPoet @Heideschrampf These are awesome! I hope you don‘t get as obsessed with it as I seem to have! 😂 7y
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Just for fun 😊 #10questions @LazyOwl

1. Facebook group
2. I think it was gradual, but I'll say middle school when I read Inkheart
3. Harry Potter, the Inkheart trilogy
4. Strange the Dreamer
5. Outlander (tv show) and cooking
6. With a toddler I don't get to binge watch much anymore, but I have watched long stretches of Friends with him 😏
7. Inkspell
8. TBRbingo
9. The Bookish Box, on and off depending on the theme
10. My husband

Tanisha_A Was fun reading this! 😁 7y
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Great autobiography of the man behind the Linux operating system. #computers #linux #software #biography #autobiography