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Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de
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70% complete! Ji FU has read 28 of 40 books.
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Ji FU quoted From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
Knowing what I know today, I think there's real irony in the fact that Congress spent all that money to create and rebuild Iraq when it refuses to spend money that's needed in our own U.S. prison system—money to teach real life Improvement skills to men who really need it, for example. Not to mention the insane money our country waste on incarcerating people who could be dealt with, punished, in alternative ways.
— From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik (Page 126)
Ji FU quoted From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
Courtney had assigned me to the cubicle of Anthony Dorsey, Sr., a heavyset sixty-one-year-old black man from Baltimore. Shortly after we introduced ourselves, he asked me, "Was nine-eleven a conspiracy?" I laughed and thought to myself, "Everything is a conspiracy man."
— From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik (Page 11)
Ji FU quoted From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik
"Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an …
During my final processing I thought, "Three years of my life wasted and you're giving me a check for twenty dollars for my leftover commissary?" It almost reminded me of Iraq in 2003, where I watched people step over dead bodies, watch people get used to or ignore death, ignore the destruction.
— From Jailer to Jailed by Bernard B. Kerik (Page 98)
Ji FU replied to Ezra Tellington's status
@Tellington Is he sexist or sexy, or both?
Ji FU reviewed How to Do Everything by Red Green
It may not be great literature -- but at least it's handy. From the mastermind …
Lots of zingers that would sound better if Red read them himself.
3 stars
I liked it, but it would probably be better as an audio book read by Red Green than as an eBook. I'd just feel like it would be more like he's pulling for us and we are all in it together.
Otherwise, some good one-liners (though like any good old-fogey his one-liners are longer than one-line).
I liked it, but it would probably be better as an audio book read by Red Green than as an eBook. I'd just feel like it would be more like he's pulling for us and we are all in it together.
Otherwise, some good one-liners (though like any good old-fogey his one-liners are longer than one-line).
Ji FU quoted How to Do Everything by Red Green
It may not be great literature -- but at least it's handy. From the mastermind …
All work and no play makes a safer airplane.
@Magnesium@wyrms.de I appreciate that you used the word censored rather than the more common, and I believe incorrect banned.
Ji FU wants to read The Wanderers by Ingrid Rimland
The epic saga of three women who survived the Soviet holocaust unleashed on German farmers …
On hold at the public library
Ji FU quoted The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese …
In my home town everyone is Lutheran. Even the atheists are Lutheran.
Ji FU rated The Lake Wobegon virus: 3 stars
The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor …
Ji FU reviewed The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese …
It's the latest news from Lake Wobegon
3 stars
Not Keillor's best work but you take what you can as far as Wobegon stories these days. With a title like that released in 2020 I thought it would be how covid effected the little town on the edge of the prairie. However there's no mention of social distancing, only one slight jab at masks, and instead a "virus" that infects people through unpasteurized Norwegian "Portuguese" cheese that makes folks act without inhibition. Folks act rather non-Minnesotan, then the city council brings in a therapist to try to help put things back in order.
Not Keillor's best work but you take what you can as far as Wobegon stories these days. With a title like that released in 2020 I thought it would be how covid effected the little town on the edge of the prairie. However there's no mention of social distancing, only one slight jab at masks, and instead a "virus" that infects people through unpasteurized Norwegian "Portuguese" cheese that makes folks act without inhibition. Folks act rather non-Minnesotan, then the city council brings in a therapist to try to help put things back in order.
Ji FU started reading What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Property is robbery!” This slogan coined by the French political philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of his answers to the …
Ji FU finished reading The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor …
Ji FU started reading The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
The Lake Wobegon virus by Garrison Keillor
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor …