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Duncan got hooked on the series at age 11, and can still recite the first line of the first book from memory. But now she’s 20 years old, well outside a children’s book??s intended audience...
...mean we should not take action in situations where we can actually exert influence. And to claim that a security officer does not deserve to be paid a living wage because he can sit down on the job—or even do something as audacious as read a book??is unfair...
This season, the “book?? on Byrne included a hamstring injury, incurred last weekend against Brown. In his last Ivy games yesterday, playing through the pain, Byrne went 1-for-2 with two sacrifices in the opener and 3-for-5 with two RBI in the nightcap...
...strange loop.Meanwhile, while presenting arguments of logic, clever bits of analogy here and there add up to reveal that the book itself is more than just a friendly essay: everywhere you turn, “Strange Loop” is drawing back on itself, too. For example, the book??s arguments are made almost entirely through symbols, analogies, and tales of personal experience. Appropriately, Hofstadter devotes much discussion to the reasons that symbols, analogies, and empathy (or, as he calls it, “Varying Degrees of Being Another”) actually work. This book is a work...
...beach to work on your tan when you realize you have nothing to read. You know you want something appropriately spring-y, but it can’t be too air-headed, because others on the beach will see you reading and judge you—and the book??by its cover. ON CHESIL BEACH: A NOVEL by Ian McEwan It’s beachy, but serious-style beachy. Clearly this is no frivolous tale of surf and sun: there’s some foreboding darkness in the top right corner and a solitary girl staring...