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I love sundresses. If I were a woman, I would wear nothing else—no underwear and no bra—just the sundress, a piece of free-flowing cotton between the rest of the world and me.
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.
Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends....”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends....”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Joey’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,396 books
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64 friends
142 books
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432 books
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2,138 books
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424 books
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222 books
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505 books
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76 friends
781 books
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