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Rhymes and poetry are recurring motifs throughout The Gay Science, beginning with the Prelude in Rhymes. Section 84, "On the Origin of Poetry," rec...
In 1920s Osaka, an upper middle-class married woman named Sonoko meets and falls in love with Mitsuko, the seductive daughter of a wealthy merchant...
This book is pretty insightful into how scientific firsts get stolen by savvy marketing teams. In this particular instance while Fleming didn't do ...
👷♀️ The long awaited Goodreads import feature is out. It only took almost 2 years and a custom book DB to enable it, turns out. You just need to upload the .csv file, it's that simple!
2026 so far, has been a bad reading year. I've enjoyed some of the books I've read but not loved any, and feel as though I don't have a clear sense of my taste anymore. This in turn is causing me to become somewhat disaffected with reading, not something I ever thought would happen! Any tips for breaking the cycle of unsatisfying books, finding your taste and falling in love with reading again? Thanks!
