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Curtis Edmonds

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My name is Curtis Edmonds; I am a self-published author living in central New Jersey. My new novel, A CIRCLE OF MOONLIGHT, comes out on December 21, 2021.

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Average rating: 3.64 · 840 ratings · 166 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rain on Your Wedding Day 3.76 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wreathed 3.37 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If My Name Was Amanda by Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author), Mat Sadler (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Circle of Firelight 3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overmorrow: Stories of Our Bright Future by Jon Garett (Editor), Richard Walsh (Editor), Allen Baird 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Design For Happiness by W.V. Myres, Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies I Have Told it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Circle of Moonlight (Circle Saga, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Wreathed] [Author: Edmonds, Curtis] [October, 2014] by Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink

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Curtis Edmonds said: " I have a child who is allergic to nonfiction--not all kinds of books, just nonfiction. (We read to them until they made it to high school, every night, all of Harry Potter and Tolkien, and one time I read "Oranges" by John McPhee, and this child stil I have a child who is allergic to nonfiction--not all kinds of books, just nonfiction. (We read to them until they made it to high school, every night, all of Harry Potter and Tolkien, and one time I read "Oranges" by John McPhee, and this child still resents me for that, so you get the idea.) I told her I was reading a book about color, and she said, "Why?"

"Well. it's not about color. It's about how you define color in a dictionary."

"Oh, my God, why would you want to read that?"

Reader, she had a point.

If you look at the cover, and the title, you would think--anyone would think--that this was a book about color. It is not. If you read the subtitle, the word "define" appears, and that gives the game away. This is about how you define what color is in a dictionary. Specifically, how they defined color in two dictionary editions in the mid-twentieth century. And the book is that way because the author is a lexicographer, and she has unlimited access to the Merriman-Webster archives, which is the source for most of the book, and that is why the book is the way it is and if you are going to read this book you need to know that ahead of time because otherwise you are going to be dreadfully disappointed.

At some level, I think, most people can understand the difficulty that the long-ago lexicographers of yore had in defining color. I mean, think of a color, any color you like, and try to figure out how you would put it in the dictionary. I am right this second looking at the next book I have to review, which is TWELVE MONTHS by Jim Butcher, and it has a glowy fiery yellow sigil in the background. What color is that? It's yellow, but it's not buttercup-yellow or mustard-yellow or goldenrod or any other sort of shade like that, it's more golden than anything else, but a very yellowy gold, if that makes sense, and if you are reading this review (thank you for reading this far) you will get the idea that there is difficulty in defining that. And the printing process being what it is, well, you can't just print out a blob of color, because that's difficult to do, and expensive, and...

And, well, why would you want to do that? You know what "yellow" is already, you don't need to go to the dictionary to figure that out, I mean, you've known what "yellow" is your whole life. But if you are writing a dictionary (an unabridged dictionary!), you can't just leave words out because everyone knows what that means. You have to have some way to define things.

So, you know, I get it. And if there had been a laser-like focus on color and how color was defined at, let's say, the length of a long magazine article, it would have been okay. That is not this book. Because there is a stretch in this book, a very long stretch, where the author explores the transition between the second edition of the dictionary, and the third edition of the dictionary, and the personalities and the HR decisions that went into setting up the team that was writing the third edition, and none of this (I can't stress this enough) has anything to do with color, and the purpose of all of this is to set up the idea that one of the senior staff was, hmm, how to say this, not the sort of person you would want to work for. And then when the narrative turns back to color, you get paragraphs like this:

His work on the Third was a source of frustration or confusion for his friends at the NBS, though, who couldn't understand why the lexicographers wer second-guessing a system based on scientific principles, and why they were dictating that science move at the pase of publishing, when obviously any scientist knows it's the opposite. When Godlove wrote in 1953 to the NBS colorimetrist Kenneth Kelly to ask if the ISCC-NBS committee had finished all the Munsell notation for the charts--Merriman would need them--Kelly was baffled as to why he couldn't just wait until the NBS had property reviewed, set, and published the new notations.

And it goes on like that, for pages, and other than a little bit of good-natured ribbing by the author aimed towards her long-ago lexicographer subjects, that is what you are going to get.

I did not finish this book (this is about 60% of the way through, which is about where I stopped) and absent a sudden recurrence of insomnia I am probably not going to finish it. I gave it four stars because it is, absolutely, one hundred percent, the single best book that was ever written or that is ever going to be written about how color was defined in mid-century American dictionaries. Why anyone would want to read that is, sadly, well beyond me. ...more "

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I have a child who is allergic to nonfiction--not all kinds of books, just nonfiction. (We read to them until they made it to high school, every night, all of Harry Potter and Tolkien, and one time I read "Oranges" by John McPhee, and this child stil ...more
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I read this book and spent the first nine-tenths of it desperately wishing that I could grab the heroine by the shoulders and scream at her the way that Cher screams at Nick Cage in MOONSTRUCK. "SNAP OUT OF IT!" The heroine (I can't even remember her ...more
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“fighting for the cause since I tried starting a Working Families Party club in middle school.” “How did that work out for you?” Polly asked. “In New Haven? It was awesome. The only problem,” I admitted, “was that we could never get anyone from any working families to show up.”
― Curtis Edmonds, Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior

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“I had been trying to find some sort of exercise program that wasn’t overly bourgeois, but I was having a problem. Weight-lifting was too obviously fascist in nature. Horseback riding was too imperialistic. I gave a lot of thought to starting a co-ed softball league, but that turns out to be closely tied to beer consumption, and I didn’t need the carbohydrates. I had to do something to improve my health that didn’t compromise my revolutionary ethics. (I went so far as to ask my mother for advice on the subject, and she sent me a link to a Chinese tour company that specialized in re-enactments of the Long March, which sounded fascinating but would take me away from Washington at a pivotal time in history, so I didn’t sign up.)”
― Curtis Edmonds, Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior

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“It’s in Iowa,” I said. “Oh, so she’s volunteering for the campaign? That’s great.” “Yes, she is, and no, it isn’t. She’s working for Senator Sanders.” “She is not,” Emma said. “You are making that up. Your mom knows Hillary from way back.” “She knows Bernie from way back, too,” I said. “She was the co-chairman of Leninists for Sanders from the first time that he ran for Senate.” “Leninists for Sanders?” “Well, there were only six of them. But they were very vocal.”
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“A wise man once said that human beings were programmed to like boundary conditions—places like tree houses, mountain cabins, or transgressive gay bars. Boundary conditions exist in places where you can stay in one element and look at another different and fascinating element for as long as you wanted. That’s why people like beach towns like Cape May; you can sit and look at the ocean, or go in the ocean and look back at the land, whatever’s more fun. If that’s true, then maybe that’s why people go to funerals. Funerals are the boundary condition between life and afterlife. Sheldon Berkman had crossed the boundary between”
― Curtis Edmonds, Wreathed

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