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Monstrous Regiment is an action/adventure fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 31st novel in his Discworld series. ➡️It takes its name from a 16th-century tract by John Knox opposing female rule, titled The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women.⬅️

Chapter 11: thinkers who tolerate ambiguity make the best forecasts

Chapter 4: A hyper-correction affect: the more confident a learner is about their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learned the right answer.

Chapter 3: it is an old joke among jazz musicians, “Can you read music?” “Not enough to hurt my playing”

Chapter 3: a professor from the University of California-San Francisco designed an iron-free piano so he could put jazz musicians improvising on the piano in an MRI scanner. Brain areas designated for focused attention, inhibition, and self-censoring turned down when musicians were creating. It is like the brain turned off its own ability to criticize itself.

Chapter 3: he had learned to learn

Chapter 2: detailed prior knowledge ended up being less important than a way of thinking

Chapter 24: lies are easier to believe if you like them

I’m about 1/3 through, and I keep telling Tia “Nooo! Run!” So stressful and sad. The innocent, faithful hope this little girl had as she tried her best to please God (or what others said was from God 😬) 😭

Well-designed book to explain depression to children (& to the rest of us)

This book has everything! If you like mystery (mysteries?), social lessons/observations from the pov of a character, a little police work, cadavers, and comas… this book is for you!

Got hooked into solving the mysteries when I read about the first third. The characters seem like real, textured people, the nature descriptions take me there, the mysteries of the island and its inhabitants and history made for a good weekend read

What a sweet alien archeology!

Go See Costas
“He held up the palm of his hand. ‘Look New York New York is a simple city to learn. It is shaped like your hand. The numbered avenues are long and run from your fingertips to your wrist. The numbered streets run across the palm. Broadway is the lifeline and curves the length around. The two middle fingers are Central Park.’”

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Has a lovely human connection similarity to A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.

Fun fact, Jackson: You can’t see sound waves, but you can hear music
Chapter 45

I adore Malala Yousafzai. Also, her parents fascinate me.

“Love one another”

Why do men talk of civil war? Civil war? What does this mean? Is there any foreign war? Every war between men is a war between brothers. War is modified only by its aim. There is no foreign war, nor civil war. There is only unjust or just war. (and unjust war is simply called crime.)
-Book 13

Eight: Faith, Lore
“A few words more”

lol This guy! 🤣

Nine a century under a quimp
“Since we are dealing with the details of the convent Le Petit-Picpus and have dared to open a window upon that secluded asylum, the reader will pardon us another little digression foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful as it teaches us that the cloister itself has its original characters.”
This “please excuse another lengthy rabbit trail” is hilarious

End of Book 6: Jean Valjean as Madeleine uses his unique physical strength to jack a cart off a man. Javert is present to witness this event

Love the idea that a moviemaking person read this very cool children’s book, and was inspired to make a big screen classic!

I want to draw some of the patterns I saw in this book. Gorgeous

I was really looking forward to seeing what Fantine saw in Félix Tholomyès. Did not like that person from the first description by the author to his last goodbye 🤢

0/10, no stars ever

After Jean Valjean ran away with the stolen silver, and then was saved by the bishop from the police in a grand, thoughtful gesture of grace, to say Valjean’s internal wrestle was mighty would be putting it lightly. His habits, his intellect, his confusion.

“There was one thing for certain, he was no longer the same man”

NY

DC Setting

Everett and June were five years apart. And took no time at all to get back to seven and twelve. 🤣
Chapter 53

Chapter 34:
Northern VA kids are smart
Colonial Williamsburg
Busch Gardens
Virginia Beach (finally seeing the ocean!)