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Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
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Wow!
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Long hot commie summer sounds like a plan.
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It sounds like it would be a very useful thing to read for many of us right now.
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One of my gigs is editing hiking books, and I tell my friends that a huge part of my job is getting the directions right so that no one steps off a mountain. So this is a big bag of yikes.
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Onigiri are amazing as long car trip snacks, too!
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I worked at the House of SF before I moved to Toronto. A very sad day.
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(nomnomnom)
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Ooooo! Laaaab!!
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I didn’t know about Morris, and just listened to an NPR interview with him around that time. Wow! Love the pivot from Texas to Wagner!
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And Kelli O’Hara.
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Or the next house: there are a lot of tweens on this street. I do regret the lack of binoculars now.
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Sadly, no. I may have heard some yelps, but no confirmation yet :)
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Such a good hund.
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saw someone do that the other day. can't find the post now but it's by danontheguitar on instagram
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Oh no! Hope it is very very temporary.
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She was probably delighted that you spoke Japanese politely! But boy do I understand that moment of panic.
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I have a severe disconnect between speaking and reading, but (again) haven’t had the time to try and bridge the gap.
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My husband’s relatives in Japan mostly speak no English, and it’s frustrating asking him to translate for me all the time. Thai is hard because I have been learning from Thai speakers. So it’s all conversational, and I can’t read Thai (very complicated, but not as complicated as Japanese). 2/3
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Japanese. It’s the levels of politeness that cause me grief, and calculating social position relative to the person I am speaking with. That and particles: I am frequently using the wrong particle for direction and for receiving and giving actions. I haven’t been able to study and I need to. 1/?
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+1 reply, and I need someone to photoshop a goatee on a goose, stat.
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Raking. Raking your leaves. Goddamnit.
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Great book.
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The best surprise, having you open the door!
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Ninety per cent of Casablanca and The Lion in Winter could be on the list :)
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Cold, by Drew Hayden Taylor, is set in Toronto: Indigenous horror!
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Woo! Congratulations!!
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Wanda’s Pie in the Sky, in Kensington, has amazing pie (natch) plus vegetarian-friendly sandwiches and soups. Bakka-Phoenix Books (on Harbord at Spadina) is where you get your science fiction/fantasy, and Little Ghosts on Dundas West is for when you want a horror novel instead.
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I call it practical. :)
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My son has an undergrad in bioethics. A normally calm and even-tempered person, physicists committing philosophy like this send him from 0 to full rant in nanoseconds. I am sure he will “enjoy” adding this one to his list of physicists to excoriate.
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And yes, it should have been 1/2, 2/2. Fatigue wins.