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Port of No Return

#FridayReads on #TBCW - recommending #GoodnightStoriesforRebelGirls: https://www.facebook.com/TheBletchleyCircleWatchers/posts/1335827649894284

My #Fridayreads for #readingwomenchallenge: A #PenguinClassics copy of #ColdComfortFarm by #StellaGibbons. I also want to see the illustrated edition by #RozChast. My local library system also had the #DVD of the #BBCFilms adaptation. #librarylove #readingchallenge #classicbooks

Remembering #TrevorHopkins, a talented television producer who worked on #TheBletchleyCircle: https://www.facebook.com/TheBletchleyCircleWatchers/posts/133572409657130 (#Obituary by Richard Swallow @guardian) #TBCW #ladynerds #bletchleycircle #thebletchleycirclewatchers #obit #thankyou #RIP

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Pretty sure we do…

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His face, he knew, he could never disguise—the coat of a man cannot hide a wolf’s eyes.

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Acampada lectora (ilustración de Marie Caudry)

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist: The 6 Best Sci-Fi Novels Of Last Year

Since 1987, the Arthur C. Clarke Award has honored the best science fiction novels published in the U.K. It’s great to see that the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist is fantastically diverse, with works by three women authors, two writers of color, and one transgender author among the six books that made this year’s cut. The 2017 winner will be announced on July 27.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

After Atlas by Emma Newman

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

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we’ve had all the symptoms…

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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. In the modern state there are very few sites where this is possible. The only others that come readily to my mind require belief in an omnipotent creator as a condition for membership. It would seem the most obvious thing in the world to say that the reason why the market is not an efficient solution to libraries is because the market has no use for a library. But it seems we need, right now, to keep re-stating the obvious. There aren’t many institutions left that fit so precisely Keynes’s definition of things that no one else but the state is willing to take on. Nor can the experience of library life be recreated online. It’s not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

Zadie Smith (via hglteens)