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“A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation ‘funded …
More "loosely organized thoughts on how to fact check" than a thorough guide or textbook.
“A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation ‘funded …
Whether you're in the position of evaluating a writer's source material or finding your own, keep in mind the distinction between between primary and secondary sources, and use primary sources whenever possible. Think of these as raw material- the original wellspring of information.
— The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking by Brooke Borel (37%)
I'm gobsmacked that there's an entire chapter devoted to sourcing that doesn't even define primary and secondary sources. Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but genealogy methods and citation texts drill these concepts into a person.
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a …
Checked out from SFPL. I figure I'll need a second audiobook for my flight back on Wednesday.
The best stories are the ones we didn’t know needed to be told.
The small, …
Been a month or two since I popped an audiobook into Libby, but I wanted to get a good walk in today and i have two cross-country flights in the next three days. I'm not normally a fan of cozies, but when I listen to audiobooks I need something not too intense, so I'll see how this goes.
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, …
On hold with Santa Clara County Libraries.
The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium …
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
The writing is waaaaay too obtuse. The story takes a cool concept (an ancient, immortal being seeks mortality) and puts a very new coat of paint on it. Unfortunately, it tries to be too thinky about it.
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
Interesting, but slow reading. there's some sections i just don't understand that slow me down.
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
As I crossed a room with possets, a brash young lordling took a hold of my breast and began to laugh at what he felt and I begged him to let me go and a woman still resplendent in a tiara and nothing else joined him in his investigations and those about them laughed eagerly enough.
— The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves (Page 68)
new vocabulary: posset
: a hot drink of sweetened and spiced milk curdled with ale or wine
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
She crossed referenced them with reports from the field agents who had been there with him when he had gone down, who had seen it all. Trained specialists, instilled with muscle memory to militate against panic and the excitable solecisms of untrained witnesses.
— The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves (Page 48)
new vocabulary: solecism
1: an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence also : a minor blunder in speech
2: something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
3: a breach of etiquette or decorum
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
Then he too reached for the metal and wood interlocked like spillikins beyond the threshold.
— The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves (Page 19)
new vocabulary: spillikins
jackstraws. a game in which a set of straws or thin strips is let fall in a heap with each player in turn trying to remove one at a time without disturbing the rest.
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been …
The floor was a foul sastrugi of oil and dust, the clots of a drabber black that he knew was blood.
— The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves (Page 13)
new vocabulary: sastrugi
parallel wave-like ridges caused by winds on the surface of hard snow, especially in polar regions
@knizer@bookwyrm.social I find in general that complicated narratives are difficult for me to follow in audiobook. I gotta get them on paper.
“A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation ‘funded …
So far, I'm not thrilled with this book. It purports to be a how-to guide, but so far it's very hand-wavey.
For instance, the chapter on what to fact check says "everything". It's instructions on what to prioritize don't go mich beyond "things that are important to the story" and "things that will take effort". The chapter on how does not propose much of a system for tracking facts, tracking effort, and also is very geared toward paper copies.
(I'm not kidding about "everything". in the part that supposedly says how to modify the process to identify what should be fact checked for electronic documents, Borel writes: "Make a separate copy of the story file and rename it. Then, using your software tools, either highlight or boldface the entire text." That is so useless.)
it's an easy read so far, so I'm likely to stick through it, but I'm not …
So far, I'm not thrilled with this book. It purports to be a how-to guide, but so far it's very hand-wavey.
For instance, the chapter on what to fact check says "everything". It's instructions on what to prioritize don't go mich beyond "things that are important to the story" and "things that will take effort". The chapter on how does not propose much of a system for tracking facts, tracking effort, and also is very geared toward paper copies.
(I'm not kidding about "everything". in the part that supposedly says how to modify the process to identify what should be fact checked for electronic documents, Borel writes: "Make a separate copy of the story file and rename it. Then, using your software tools, either highlight or boldface the entire text." That is so useless.)
it's an easy read so far, so I'm likely to stick through it, but I'm not impressed at this point.
Phil in SF
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they …
It has been SO RARE to read fantasy that is based on Black & African traditions. I am so delighted that P. Djéli Clark has woven yet another set of worlds that is delightful & action packed. I feel this is a book that would be suitable for young teens and above. What a wonderful tale. Not one dull moment.
