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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 3d

Halfway through in one sitting. Pretty good even if the romance is a bit cheese.
#booksky

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 3d

I just finished that book last night! That story is definitely one of the highlights. I also really enjoyed the second-to-last story (SuperLawyer)

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 5d

"we'll be around" 😢

Also, they advertised being #4?

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 6d

The guy in the middle is obviously Hermione. But which is Ron?

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for the suggestion. I just read that back in March!

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 7d

My money is on a resurgence of the Napoleonic Wars by '75

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 7d

Just bought Beloved, Normal People, Jekyll/Hyde, Frankenstein, the works of Hesiod, and Horror Movie. Any other books I should check out while @bookshop.org has its free shipping?

#booksky #bookshop #prime

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 8d

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 8d

Was Socrates an alt-right troll?

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not fat because I'm lazy, I'm fat because I'm smart!

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 10d

I remain a boxed rodent, notwithstanding my emotions on the matter.

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 10d

Oh gosh. I thought going page by page and applying markings was painful, I can't imagine straight up rewriting everything.

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 10d

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 11d

That's interesting that the Android developers decided on that term. I guess the people focused on localizing grammar are grammar nerds. Surprising they haven't changed the user (developer) facing option even if they left the backing keyword the same. It's been like that for years.

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 11d

Or reddit every other Tuesday

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 11d

I have now read and rated 100 books so far this year! More than twice as I read in all of last year. #storygraph #booksky

Reading stats. 100 books and 29,420 pages in 2025. 48 books and 16,000 pages in 2024

Rating histogram with a sorta normal curve but biased to the right with a mean of 3.2 and a mode of 3.5.

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 12d

He was popular enough with millenials but I'm just saying he's less popular with gen alpha than Pikachu, Spiderman, or monsters in general.

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty impressive, the part that aged the worst is darth maul.

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 13d

Might as well share this too. #storygraph #booksky

I know a lot of people love it, but I don't think Tolkien is for me.

Book ratings
I'm gonna say it now - 3.75
Incompetent - 3.75
Elements of Style - 4.5
End of America - 2.75
Comimg up Shirt - 4.25
Guide to Houseplants - 3.5
The Intelligence Trap - 4.0
Fellowship of the Ring - 2.25
Obscure Sorrows - 4.75
Calculation of Volume - 3.0

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 14d

An unusually non-fiction heavy month for me but an above average month both in quality and quantity of what I read.

September #storygraph #booksky

Storygraph month report showing 10 books (same as August), 3000 pages (up 29%) read. Averages of 3.65 rating, 265 pages, and 5 days to complete. Highest rated books are Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows at 4.75, The Elements of Style by Strunk and White at 4.5 stars, and Coming Up Short A Memoir of My America by Robert Reich at 4.25. Pages read per day varies between 50ish and 300ish.

Second page of storygraph month report showing 80% nonfiction and 20% fiction, 60% under 300 pages and 40% between 300-499 pages, and 100% print. 2 books each are Reference, Essays, and Politics while 1 each are Speculative Fiction and Science.

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 15d

It's only fast because of 50 years of groundwork via the strategies of Nixon and Gingrich. It was only a matter of time after the post-9/11 legal frameworks. Then McConnell delivered the courts in Trump 1 which was the last thing standing in the way. The warning bells have been ringing for decades.

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 15d

The liminal third space of libraries hidden in mall back halls

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 16d

These are the real issues our politicians should be focusing on! Where are the ostrich/emu races?

Did you know? @itsnottrue.bsky.social · 16d

Did you know that an ostrich and an emu have never been set off together in a running race?

jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 18d

One book I read recently, the intelligence trap, talked about how learning is more effective when you're more frequently going back and forth and forcing yourself to recall what you learned instead of focusing on just one thing. So it maybe feels less efficient but might be better for retention.

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jinnjinnlovesjinnjinn @courtliazon.bsky.social · 18d

When is the circus in town?