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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 9 months ago

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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Ji FU's books

To Read (View all 10)

Peggy Levitt: God Needs No Passport (Paperback, 2009, New Press)
David R. George III, Armin Shimerman: The 34th Rule (Paperback, 1999, Pocket Books)
Patrick Stewart: Making It So (AudiobookFormat, 2023, Simon & Schuster Audio)

Currently Reading (View all 9)

Peter Brown: The Wild Robot (Paperback, 2020, Little Brown and Company)
John Dennis Fitzgerald, Ron McLarty: The Great Brain (AudiobookFormat, 2007, Random House, Listening Library)
Jo Walton: Farthing (Hardcover, 2006, Tor)

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Richard Hooker, William E. Butterworth: M*A*S*H goes to Montreal (Paperback, 1977, Pocket)
Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea: The Golden Apple (Paperback, 1986, Sphere)
Ernest Cline: Armada (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Books on Tape)

2026 Reading Goal

70% complete! Ji FU has read 28 of 40 books.

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commented on The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten

Leo Calvin Rosten, Lawrence Bush: The New Joys of Yiddish (Hardcover, 2001, Crown Publishers)

The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for …

The book's description indicates that every word in the Lexicon includes a joke with its definition. This is either untrue or many of Rosten's jokes are so unfunny that they are not even recognizable as jokes.

quoted The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Calvin Rosten

Leo Calvin Rosten, Lawrence Bush: The New Joys of Yiddish (Hardcover, 2001, Crown Publishers)

The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised for …

I consider the story, the anecdotes, the joke, a teaching instrument of unique efficiency. A joke is a structured, compact narrative that makes a point with power, generally by surprise. A good story is exceedingly hard for anyone to forget. It is therefore an excellent pedagogical peg on which to hang a point. Those who do not use stories when they try to explain or communicate are either inept at telling them or blindly forfeit a tool of great utility.

— The New Joys of Yiddish by ,

Page xxii

commented on The Lost World by George Guidall (Jurassic Park, #2)

George Guidall, Michael Crichton: The Lost World (AudiobookFormat, 1999, Recorded Books)

The Lost World revisits the Central American site of the Jurassic Park fiasco. It has …

Still only in part one, but already doesn't feel as good as the first one.

commented on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (Hardcover, 1981, New York, Knopf)

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very …

I'm almost a quarter of the way through and our protagonist hasn't even been born yet. It's a slog. Some of the longest sentences I have ever read. They are elongated by semicolons, ellipses, and dashes. The narrator keeps interrupting his story to mention his discussions with his wife about this part of the story. So far I don't feel it adds to the book at all. I'm hoping it gets better after our main character shows up.

quoted Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (Hardcover, 1981, New York, Knopf)

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very …

The insurance money came; January ended; and in time it took to close down their affairs in Delhi and move to the city in which - Dr Narlikat the gynecologist knew - property was temporarily as cheap as dirt, my mother concentrated on her segmented scheme to love her husband.

— Midnight's Children by  (Page 90)

What the heck does "cheap as dirt" mean? Property is dirt and anyone who has tried to buy a peice of dirt knows it ain't cheap.