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dairine

dairine

Joined May 2016

I aim to chronicle my bookmark choices.
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Currently teaching this one with AP Lit. It is heart-wrenching and beautiful and chaotic and soothing all at once. The motifs in this novel--my GODS, to have her skill. Silko, you are lovely.

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I LOVE the Serial Reader app!!! I'm killing my "Classics I Shoulda Read By Now" list on Goodreads. ?

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March: Book One | John Robert Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
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📚🔖 Update: a self-adhesive napkin ring thingie because that's all I had. It is absolutely appropriate. John Lewis, you're a hero.

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The Cat who Went Underground | Lilian Jackson Braun
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📚🔖 Update: I liked the pun. A used Metrocard a friend gave me after his stint in the Big Apple.

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When you wish you were a copy editor...

Liberty I read a novel the other day where this happened THREE times! 8y
dairine SHAKES FIST! If I stopped to correct all the errors I saw, I'd never finish a book. 😂 I also realize being a copy editor is an unfun job... or so people CLAIM. 8y
CouronneDhiver 🤦🏽‍♀️ 8y
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The Cat who Sniffed Glue | Lilian Jackson Braun
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Maybe I just don't LIKE listening to audiobooks mostly. And that's okay.

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?? I love this rug bookmark. It's "velvety."
Let's dive into this behemoth.

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The Cat who Knew Shakespeare | Lilian Jackson Braun
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📖🔖 (Bookmark Update--heheh emojis) This lil gem I picked up at a traveling exhibit of a First Folio in Santa Fe seems appropriate.

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The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu
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Attempting to determine a working phonetic understanding of Chinese so the characters will "stick." I made a pronunciation guide in my journal and attempted to make phonetic guides. I think I'm fucking up some vowel combos.... #chineseishard

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The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: I forgot I had this bookmark :) The first novel references this dress style, whose name now escapes me. It starts with a q. #chineseishard

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Pickpick

This is serious HARD sci-fi. I now know what a sophon is though, so there's that. Reading the translator's afterword vindicated my initial thoughts on stylistic issues: this is an Eastern novel with odd rhythm. Nevertheless, it's an intriguing premise, which doesn't really hit its stride until the latter third of the novel. I'll likely read the next because I AM intrigued.

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Bookmark Update: random draw from the bin, looking for something sturdy without a damned tassel. For some reason The Eye seems appropriate.

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Page 28, and already profound: "To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race."

Tanzy13 🐱 8y
dairine 😻 8y
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Witches: Salem, 1692 | Stacy Schiff
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Finally, I've decided to start this early, in preparation for teaching The Crucible next semester. This quote SPEAKS to me. I've read Schiff's bio of Cleopatra, and while sometimes a slog, it was an admirable work. She is proving brilliant for this foray into early American history. #moleskinedotted #quotes #moleskine #sharpiepen #thecrucible #salemwitches

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East of Eden | John Steinbeck

Timshel...
This book is profundity. It took my breath away; it made me ache. I love it.

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East of Eden | John Steinbeck
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It's impossible: I'm just a terrible Litsy user when I'm teaching. To add insult to injury, a student took my glasses last week, breaking them and throwing them away. I have corrective lenses for my astigmatism, which lets me get away with NOT wearing readers. I hope to get replacements SOON, but I'm wearing RX sunglasses for the time being.

THIS IS SERIOUSLY FUCKING WITH MY JOB (I have 3" of AP grading), AND MY PRECIOUS READING LIFE.
#UGH

ZoeyPeacock I love your pic! It looks so much like my stack right down to The Atlantic! 8y
MrBook Oh wow 😕, sorry to hear things are a bit whackadoo for you too right now. #NiceStack! 8y
dairine I love this place. I love you complimented my stack. There's another one on the other table even taller. 🤓😂 8y
BookishMarginalia As a fellow #teacherofLitsy and AP teacher, I feel you. (And I'd have killed the kid -- or sent them to detention with Dolores Umbridge!) 8y
APLitlife Spending my Sunday with all my AP grading. Would rather be reading. 8y
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East of Eden | John Steinbeck

WHO IS THIS GUY? Steinbeck always astounds.
"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."

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East of Eden | John Steinbeck

I went back to school (I teach AP Lit), and I've been remiss in posting.
#I'm on page 70 and LOVE it. Steinbeck ❤️💛❤️

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Mort | Terry Pratchett
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Not my favorite, but it picked up the latter third.

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Mehso-so

I heard that film rights had been optioned simultaneously to hearing a second in the series had been published. The latter half is certainly better than the first. It took Schwab quite a bit of time with voice frankly.

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Mort | Terry Pratchett
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Do you think DEATH has a black cat? Still researching. (This is Brenna, one of two literate felines in this household. She is my 14YO "baby.")

SusanInTiburon She doesn't look a day over seven! 💁🏾 8y
dairine Thank you! Both my kitties are 14. They are my first-ever mammals. I have friends with 15 YO cats who look 21. I'm really TRYING to love and care. 8y
MrBook Yours looks like mine! 😸 8y
Gezemice Love Mort! And Death also has a black garden. He is a bit of a goth. 8y
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A malenky bit chepooka, but I pony dobby.

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Fables Vol. 20: Camelot | Bill Willingham
Mehso-so

Shit. I have ONE more trade left. This series should have ended ISSUES ago.

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Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: Duh, flowers. (I *think* a student gave me this one. After the first 50, I truly lost track of my bookmarks.)

Worst. Lit. Teacher. Ever. First time reading this one. Page 2, and I already love it.

Gezemice It is awesome and so sad. I read it a month ago! 8y
MrBook What a beautiful story, right? My bookclubs unanimously loved this read. 8y
dairine It was a great read. Lot to think about, but since I WASN'T a middle schooler, but instead an AP Lit teacher, I found myself wondering how I would TEACH it. (I would not assign it AP Lit, mind you.) 8y
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Fables Vol. 20: Camelot | Bill Willingham
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: The end of a series deserves my favorite bookmark.

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American Gods | Neil Gaiman
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"Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all..."

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American Gods | Neil Gaiman
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: it is time for a re-read. Despite the dozens of books sitting there never before read, I'm going for this one. In time for the show AND because I'm a sight better reader now (one should hope).

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"Religion is a very poor scientist." Dr. Rock

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BOOKMARK UPDATE: awaiting some stand-up comedy. Continue to use this bookmark for this series. I am almost done with Fables! 😳

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BOOKMARK UPDATE: I've been dying to read this ever since NOR re-aired Eig's interview on Fresh Air. The bookmark is self-explanatory (Knock Knock sells them in a pad of 20ish.) Eig was a highly engaging interview. I don't read much NF, but I go big when I do.

dairine *NPR. SIGH 8y
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Pronto | Elmore Leonard
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: provenance of this bookmark: I used to work for a small museum system, and my colleague found this bookmark in a bunch of estate books. Not fitting in our collection, she gave it to me, knowing I had a healthy collection. Incidentally, a NM resident & STILL haven't been to Taos. 😏

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Don Quixote Deluxe Edition | Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
Mehso-so

This epic gave me a book hangover--long, tedious, often funny, never hysterical. It definitely READS like someone's first novel. #justsayin

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Don Quixote Deluxe Edition | Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
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Quixote is slowly killing me. Fizzgig seems to enjoy it however. 565 of 826, there's an end in sight.

Liberty Haha, Fizzgig! 😻 8y
SusanInTiburon All honor to you for reading this bedrock of Western literature! And your cat is quite beautiful. 8y
Bookgirl Is Fizzgig a Dark Crystal homage or just a coincidence? 8y
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dairine It is a Dark Crystal reference indeed! 8y
dairine You can follow Fizzy on IG @fizzgigthehimalayanprincess 8y
dairine And I should say DQ is Good, not great. 8y
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Jack of Fables: Americana. 4 | Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Todd Klein, Russell Braun, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy, Steve Leialoha, Danny Vozzo
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So, Litsy Criticism #1: this graphic novel doesn't exist...

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Fables Vol. 15: Rose Red | Bill Willingham
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Turns out I didn't need the bookmark. Perfect timing in my cat's part, however. I was TRYING to read the Pinocchio short story...

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Fables Vol. 15: Rose Red | Bill Willingham
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: too lazy to find something better. I need to do some organizing.

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Fantastic, but I'm partial to skepticism.

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Because lit majors can find the universals in ANYTHING. So long as it's GOOD.

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YESSSS

Gezemice love Discworld! ❤️❤️ 9y
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BOOKMARK UPDATE: continue to use my #HubbleDeepField bookmark for all #Discworld forays. Added #Magners and a #Balvenie12Doublewood for measure.🍺📖🤓

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Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes
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Brenna seems to be enjoying it.

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Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett
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Super fun. Damn, I do love a good pun.

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Jack of Fables Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade | Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges
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BOOKMARK: just using the same one for the series.

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Don Quixote Deluxe Edition | Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
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BOOKMARK POST: Eliot is taking a ride on this one, as this is my favorite bookmark I save for when I'm in for serious/epic reading. (Book tagged is not my edition...Litsy could get that right... ISBN #s!!!

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Fables Vol. 14: Witches | Bill Willingham
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BOOKMARK POST: no reason I picked this. I just grabbed the handiest out of the card catalog coffee table. 🤓

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Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett
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Bookmark Post: I chose a Hubble Deep Field image of 1500 galaxies. I wonder if any of them have a flying turtle in them.

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All those French names gave my 4 semesters of college French a run for its money. Still, it was fascinating to better understand how the most infamous queen finally lost her head.

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The Light Fantastic | Terry Pratchett
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The 2nd--READING THEM ALL.
#discworld

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The Color of Magic | Terry Pratchett
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Book 1--I will read them ALL.

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Equal Rites | Terry Pratchett
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This is the third book of my epic journey to read ALL of the Discworld--in whatever order I may get them.