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Shira’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Shira’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Shira Destinie Jones
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Octavia Butler, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Viktor Frankl, William Jam
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Day 23 (out of 67) of High School in Five Months, Learning languages, and Adulting in context
If you are a compulsive completer, like I am, you probably found yourself filling in the chart above automatically, in the language of mathematics: perhaps the most universal of all human languages (and maybe of alien languages, if we ever make contact with non-human intelligent life?).
Languages, both external (or, between people, i.e. French) and internal (aka “love languages” for each person), a
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A Long Letter from the Future: Reviews of Babylon 5, from a Minbari Point of View
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A Long Letter from the Future
Reviews of Babylon 5, from a Minbari Point of View
These reviews are from the PoV of a Minbari persona I have created, so I'm not sure into what category they fall.
by Shira Destinie Jones
ShiraDest is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
#WhoByFireIWill
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To save his son, a desperate escaped slave must make a choice, but the price is eternally high.
Four Freedoms Movement 60 year mission
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updated May 25, 2020 03:49PM
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Some ideas I've been pondering on how we could get to a kinder world (I cannot get my pdf to display, so jpg soon to come...)
Who are you?
(Poetry)
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The question contains the answer, but four more lines may explain it a bit better. Four short lines...
We are going to see the King: the hard way!
(Religion & Spirituality)
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A short short (or just short?) take on those left behind in Noah's Flood...
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This commentary is well-balanced, shows the research, gives clear explainations, and has a set of wonderful pre-face pages. Fascinating to read, and obviously essential to Torah study. Shira
William-James-MEOW Date: 1 September, 12,014 H.E. (Holocene/ ...more "
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I haven't had time lately, but I used to, and I agree, it is a fascinating game!
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"Cute, clever, kinda creepy.
My favorite story was the meta one where Wolf has read one of Storr's earlier stories about Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and decides to write his own story showing that he is the smart one. The illustrations are not lik" Read more of this review » |
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"A picture book biography on Sojourner Truth written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and beautifully illustrated by her husband Brian Pinkney.
The biography tags Sojourner Big, Black, and Beautiful. She was a big woman, tall and wore size twelve boots. She was" Read more of this review » |
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"Given that a. I am not generally a fan of ‘sweeping sagas’ and b. I have never quite made up my mind whether I enjoy Allende’s work, I am not sure why I started reading this. Turns out though, that I enjoyed it very much; we’re taken on an informed, "
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“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
― The Persian Boy
― The Persian Boy
“People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.”
― Die Trying
― Die Trying
“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
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“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
― Naamah's Kiss
― Naamah's Kiss
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Luís wrote: "Je suis très heureux pour être votre ami. Je vous souhaite un bon week-end!"Merci ! Moi aussi, je suis heureuse d'être ton amie (on peut ce-tutoyer, n'est pas ?) !
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“Eux c'est nous” Écrit par Daniel Pennac, illustré par Serge Bloch: c'est déjà publié ?
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