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#November #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

#ISpy My #October List @TheAromaOfBooks

Next year, all 12 boards all year! (plus the bonus boards). Also --- probably my first BINGO of the year with his one (I did October, November, and December for three months).

Not a bad pairing with Claire Dederer's Monsters, rather similar in the end despite approaching the topic in two different ways. Lewis is basically saying that there was a point when people “had a genius for X“, and that was much truer than “X is a genius“, and the worship of people as geniuses produces monsters (among other things).

It was OK, but... having finished it, I feel like it could've been shorter.

#CharacterCharm Spy Spies by Coldplay @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#chatterday @AllDebooks

It‘s dangerously hot in WI so I took a walk early then we‘ve mostly been inside, napping, reading, playing cards and up next - a movie. I sometimes enjoy a down low day.

Flowers for Algernon is a deeply moving novel, told through the journal entries of Charlie Gordon, who undergoes experimental intelligence-boosting surgery.

It's a poignant dive into human dignity, scientific ethics, and what true wisdom means. This book powerfully explores the value of every individual, making it an unforgettable, thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking read that truly sticks with you.

#ISpy for April :)
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#ISpy for January @TheAromaofBooks

The new issues have to do with how intelligence uses information, or, more accurately, how intelligence and other fact-based analysis will fare in a world in which even a sophisticated society like our own is trending toward decision making anchored on a priori, near-instinctive narratives—decision making based on that which can be made popular or widely held rather than on that which is objectively true.

Did you know that in the movie “Argo“, Ben Affleck played Tony Mendez?

In real life, Mendez was a master of disguise during his career in the CIA. I just wonder what stories he can't tell because those stories have got to be another blockbuster movie or two!

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