J.D. Holman > Recent Status Updates

"Pero, what they don't want to admit
is that our people have been here
since before there were borders.
We are indigenous to this land
and they, THEY are the illegal immigrants
who came to this continent without
an invitation and colonized."

Sweden had indigenous boarding schools to assimilate the Sami. :-(

That seemed almost so abrupt and matter of fact as to be rude.

I am in danger of going down the rabbit hole of Cato's cheesecake after that introduction.

Medieval libraries in monasteries had libraries of things - monks could check out instruments for astronomy.

The super realistic panel made me snort.

That anecdote is worth reading this, all on its own.

Such frank speculation on Hitler's sexuality or lack thereof.

"... the rose ends of cigarettes like captive fireflies in the hands of the smokers."

Oh, dear, these puns make even me groan.

The book is due and MeLCat gives no quarter. I have to request it again, to pick up at chapter 7!

At least I got to read through the chapter on the Purge (Night of the Long Knives). It's easy to see how heavily Chiaverini relied on this book for "Resistance Women."

It's certainly interesting to read about the reception and treatment of the press in early Nazi Germany and compare it to current events...

I was not expecting so much on the German royal family. Really, I didn't know there was still a royal German family, that was hoping to be restored, in the 1930s. (Or that in the 21st century, they are still around and still trying to get property back.)

This exchange was repeated verbatim in "Resistance Women!"

Wow, she's frank.

"In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl."

"As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation."

I liked chemistry in high school and was good at it, but there's a limit to how much of it I can understand when trying to read a novel at bedtime.

"The only thing that could strengthen the regime today would be if another country were to attack Iran."

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Whelp.

The bear facts!

I'm glad I already knew about the sparrows from Pathogenesis, because this book is difficult enough to read without that additional, awful realization.

I wasn't expecting this twist.

"If that girl is in a detention center, an American citizen imprisoned without trial or even charges, then the world doesn't make sense."

Haha, knew it.

Having never studied astronomy, this chapter is a slog. Interesting material, but uffda.

This is far more intellectual than I expected.

The things this clock could do were nuts!

Rochelle is certainly growing on me.