DogMomIrene
🧩INFJ 🤓Geek ☕️Coffee Lover 👩🏻🍳Nutritarian 🤔 Overthinker 🌟Dog Tricks & Agility Enthusiast 📚 Favorite genres: sci-fi, thrillers & nonfiction with splashes of fantasy, mysteries & true crime.
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Post from the End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America forum
“There is no law against being a blowhard, but amid the interminable tootling of so many tin horns, it can be hard to hear the occasional note of genuine menace —to tease actionable threats from spluttery theater.”
So many thoughts here, so I’m going with two. To start, reading an observation like this just reminds me that Kash Patel is the head of the FBI. A spluttery theatrical tootling tin horn blowhard is the head of a once prestigious law enforcement agency that had flaws, for sure, but also tracked down genuine menace. No more.
And the tootling tin horns imagery reminds me so much of social media. In the future when I’m talking to someone about the granola girl to alt-right pipeline the algorithm provides, I’ll be mentioning this image.
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Post from the Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) forum
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This book was gifted to me because I'm dyslexic and love foxes so this seemed like a very appropriate present, and it is! I already love it :)
I thought that, because I have dyslexia, it might even be easier for me to read this than for most people, since I write most things phonetically. It is not XD
I do love discovering all the ways fox 8 learned to write the words all on his own, and even with all the grammatical and spelling mistakes, the story is so easy to follow.
I think I'm going to love this book!
15DogMomIrene TBR'd a book
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
0Post from the Deadline (Newsflesh, #2) forum
DogMomIrene commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
It's been so hot here lately. It's hard to keep cool at work. My job has been providing smoothies and Italian ice. So that got me thinking, what flavor of ice cream do you think your current read would be?
Based on cover, vibe etc.
Here is mine!
The Outsiders- I think the flavor of ice cream based on the cover would be blueberry.
An Offer From a Gentleman- I'm thinking butter pecan would work well with this book especially because of what part I'm at!
The Housemaid is Watching- My cover is actually orange for this book. I'm thinking orange cream or mango flavored. Or strawberry mango.
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Leigh Bardugo
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Don Víctor looked her up and down. A crease appeared between his brows and his long face lost its dignified stillness. He looked like an infant about to pass gas.
A woman could bear only so much. “If you wish to say I am plainer than expected, I ask only that you address your insult to me rather than talking around me as if I were a candelabra.”
Didn't see the humor coming. Wait but was this intended as humor? Sometimes I read and find something funny out of nowhere, I wonder if I'm supposed to laugh or not.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
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“The Pentecostalist James Watt, whom Reagan appointed secretary of the interior, demonstrated the premillennialist attitude toward federal action when he told Congress that we should not worry too much about the natural resources he had been tasked with stewarding. ‘I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns.’”
I was a kid in the early 80s. I knew Reagan was scary, but I did not know that he believed in apocalyptic prophecies.
No wonder fundamentalists, including the ones in government, have been dismissing climate change data for decades. What’s the point? The end is near. 🤦🏻♀️
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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
Chris Jennings
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Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
Mira Grant
0Post from the End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America forum
“The Pentecostalist James Watt, whom Reagan appointed secretary of the interior, demonstrated the premillennialist attitude toward federal action when he told Congress that we should not worry too much about the natural resources he had been tasked with stewarding. ‘I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns.’”
I was a kid in the early 80s. I knew Reagan was scary, but I did not know that he believed in apocalyptic prophecies.
No wonder fundamentalists, including the ones in government, have been dismissing climate change data for decades. What’s the point? The end is near. 🤦🏻♀️
5Post from the End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America forum
The Weavers looked, on the surface, like a normal happy Midwestern family, but the reality was so different. I loved the phrase that they were “shadowboxing an apocalypse only they could see.”
I’m all for being prepared for natural disasters. Prepping for Tuesday is practical, but the Weavers were prepping for doomsday.
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