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“Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.”
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“When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon.
It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.”
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It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.”
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Tani’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
794 books
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32 friends
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174 friends
2,079 books
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57 friends
1,161 books
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78 friends
205 books
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123 friends
6,436 books
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288 friends
2,400 books
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107 friends
143 books
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1,469 friends
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