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Beatrice K. Otto

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Inspired by ancient biographies of Chinese court jesters, Beatrice's first book was Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World, which won the American Association of Publishers Award for Outstanding Book of the Year in its class.

She's always loved books and remembers leafing through them even before she could read. Some children's picture and story books, and vivid Time-Life photographic books.

In addition to reading and writing all she can, she is on a mission to highlight bright writing, creating a website to celebrate thousands of moving, striking or amusing quotations and fresh, original phrasing and metaphors, along with the books in which she found them: https://www.writingredux.com. Her reviews on Goodreads are all 5-st
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Spoons for swine

A revealing aspect of Svetlana Alexievich’s interviews with Russian people, conducted first in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, and then again in the early part of this century, is the extent to which they believe their society to be militaristic and geared up for war, and yet, according to some of them, soldiers are treated abysmally, with poor conditions and apparently endemic forms

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