I'm saying he IS right, and I understand! 😂
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Kolejna książka dla młodego stażem inwestora (ale niezupełnie początkującego), która udowadnia, że powinienem dać sobie spokój z tego typu lekturami, bo i tak nic z nich nie rozumiem. Ale językowo napisana jest bardzo dobrze i widać, że prof. Damodaran bardzo lubi tłumaczyć zawiłości wyceny.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/wycena-firmy-storytelling-i-liczby/opinia/99633776
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--Georges Perec, “The Infra-Ordinary”
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What book has caused this reaction in you? 🤔
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#Reading Zeinab Badawi's "An African History of Africa" the chapter on the transatlantic slave trade was as difficult to read as I expected, but also taught me a lot.
One really interesting element was the role of, and likely primacy of capitalist industrial economics in Abolition. That abolition was about money not morals makes a lot of sense. The role of money and the absence of morals nicely highlighted in this passage #nonfiction #history #Bookstodon
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Five stars:
Witch Hat Atelier, Volume 3 by Kamome Shirahama with Stephen Kohler (Translator) (2018) is our first encounter with the Knights Moralis, the policing force of magic use. They are black and white in their thinking and swift with their punishments. There is no trial, no jury, no appeals process.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/witch_hat_atelier_3.html
Part 7 of #KatharineKerr 's neverending series of Deverry novels suffers a bit for being the penultimate part of her second quadrilogy, as it feels a bit more like moving pieces into place for a climactic novel than a full story in itself. It also tells its story linearly rather than jumping around centuries to follow characters' reincarnations as most of the books do. But there are pleasures here for addicts of these Celtic-inspired fantasy epics, like the deepest look yet into dwarf and horsekin cultures. @bookstodon #bookstodon
In #JohnLeCarré 's 1989 novel, a British publisher gets entangled in smuggling weapons secrets out of the perestroika-era Soviet Union. This is a real slow burner - it's a spy story, but I wouldn't call it a thriller! But it completely repaid my patience. The milieu Le Carré writes about is very narrow (and very male-dominated) but he writes with such incredible plausibility, both psychologically and, at least apparently, with respect to the spycraft. I'm not sure how highly this is generally rated among Le Carré's books but I think it deserves to be called a classic. @bookstodon #bookstodon
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Just one entry for #MurderEveryMonday this week, the nationality itself "burnt up" long ago. Another one from Dean Street Press
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Five stars:
Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku with Karen Chilton (Narrator) (2026) is the second Savvy Summers mystery. As move out day approaches for Savvy she's taken on a catering job at a Southside Chicago firm specializing in tools for left handed people. One of the employees is a woman who can't leave others' food alone. The founder of the company decides a prank involving spicy peppers would be a lesson learned, only to have the woman end up dead!
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/savvy_summers_and_the_poboy_perils.html
Do you NEED EVEN MORE vampire and shifter books in your life? These authors have you covered!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/vampire-shifters-july-2026/1v5wu9hqjn
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How prestigious is the PenMasters Global Award for Literary Excellence?
I haven't heard of this award. Wondered if some of you were familiar with it.
This Sunday-morning-in-europe I am just going to briefly opine on Minsky and Papert's #Perceptrons ( #bookstodon ) and leak disspiriting nz government secrets about how nz's #AI #strategy is going by way of illustration (and #original #news #journalism I guess), from a multifarious handful of senior employees from different regions and departments / crown corporations.
https://toobnix.org/w/ayXvcND3PWuHVqB3gx9Ngm
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#lispyGopherClimate ! Every week since 2022 #technology #podcast .
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Five stars:
The Fatal Lozenge by Edward Gorey (1960) reads like the prototype of the Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963). Like its more famous cousin, this book is a Gothic exploration of the alphabet, but with adults.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/fatal_lozenge.html
Currently #Reading two very different #nonfiction books and loving them both. "Humsafar: The World of Urdu Poetry" by is strengthening my desire to learn more of that language to get more out of its #poetry - poetry the book breaks down so clearly as in the attached diagram of how a ghazal is structured. Highly recommended!
As is Zeinab Badawi's "An African History of Africa" - the first book I've ever read to consider the history of the continent from within. A laudable and MUCH-needed objective. I'm only halfway but already I've learned so much and had so many preconceptions and orthodox, eurocentric historical assumptions challenged.
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Went to pick up a library hold, which I selected based on the author alone, and when I got it, had to laugh at my tendency not to look up anything about a book, including the page count. It's 1232 pages long. 😂😂😂
Well, let's call it a challenge, shall we? And of course, I've got other novels ahead of it. Ha! Classic me. 📚📚📚
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Today's book promo: My First Series.
It's science fiction, but the friendly kind.
Heroes beaten down by the new order team up to save a philanthropist targeted for assassination bc he wants to change the system from within.
Hiinks ensue.
2 novels, a novella & a wee prequel.
DRM free ebooks & print direct:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1
kindle:
https://amazon.com/author/kmherkes
other vendors:
https://books2read.com/KMHerkes/
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The Rose Field. Philip Pullman.
(Book 3 of a trilogy)
You are a young woman whose animal familiar has left her, so she goes searching for him, as well as the doorway to another world which is also the target of religious authorities; you are trying to figure out what makes life worth living, but that is elusive.
2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈.
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I'm a prophet! A friend sent me this link, as it reminded her of the bio-metal in my new book, where scientists hack a worm so it produces metal instead of silk. I thought this was from my wildest fantasies, a plot device to enable a #solarpunk future without capitalism, governments, or military, but it is an actual science, and it also involves a worm.
So fingers crossed for other predictions to come true!
Get the book
https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
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Czwarta część serii, o której myślałem, że nie ma już nic do zaoferowania, ale autorka zmieniła czas - tym razem Elżbieta II jako młoda królowa rozwiązuje zagadki w 1957 roku. I to jest znakomita zmiana, bo modświeża całą historię. To nadal "cozy" kryminał, ale ma też wiele brudu.
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/smierc-w-diamentach/opinia/99514691
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Five stars:
Whose Body in the Library by Eva Gates with Elise Arsenault (Narrator) is the thirteenth book in the Lighthouse Library mystery series. Lucy McNeil is now the mother of twins and the new director of the library. She's brought in Nichelle Gilchrest, a fifty something empty nester who has started a second career as a librarian. On her first full day at the library, Nichelle finds the body of a man who resembles her long lost father.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/whose_body_in_the_library.html
New #blog post! Remember when my site used to be a book blog? No? Well here are some thoughts on Traveling Practice by Yusuke Norishiro and transated by Takami Nieda
https://renkotsuban.com/posts/2026-07-02-Thoughts-on-Traveling-Practice.html
It's cover reveal day! Super happy to share the cover for my debut novel The Bloodsong Experiment, a dark Gothic romantasy about a mad scientist vampire obsessed with an Arab violinist on a planet without a sun as a god of nightmares laughs on.
Gonna write down ALL the words! 😂
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