so-soI‘ll probably never listen to a Pynchon again. There were many occasions I wished I had a page in front of me. I enjoyed it but I know I missed a lot.
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so-soI‘ll probably never listen to a Pynchon again. There were many occasions I wished I had a page in front of me. I enjoyed it but I know I missed a lot.
pickDon Lemon is a gorgeous man! In each chapter, he discusses our current political hellscape and the religious woes infused with it. In this administration, each publish feels outdated because things are unraveling so fast. The author talks about what loving your country versus being a nationalist means, and speaks heavily about faith and empathy in action versus Christian Nationalism. Whether you are a religious person or not, this is an⬇️
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Yes, I worked for Starbucks from 1992 until I moved to Honolulu in 2001 to be a part of the partnership here & did that until 2009. Being in HR anywhere has its challenges but today‘s Haiku is about how glad I am I‘m not part of their new dress code & policy roll out. Like their new paper iced cups, not very well thought out & executed. 🫣😱🤐
Job regrets can stir,
Then I sip, sigh, grateful I‘m
not Starbucks HR…
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pick4⭐️ I quite liked this book. Very introspective and informative. There were a number of things I liked about the book; would like to purchase a paperback copy when it comes out. And he mentions what he intended to say in regards to the Nikki Haley comment that lead to his firing #2024 #memoir #religion #nonfiction #politics
pickThe title here is Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard, his literary debut. I‘d call it speculative scifi & when i describe it it sounds ludicrous.
Earth is under oppressive martial law awaiting a coming alien invasion. 🛸👽
The aliens land. The aliens are devout Catholics.🧐
Sounds like satire. It is not.
Our main character is a Latin teacher that discovers studying Classics in college was a crackerjack major after all. 🤯
pickPynchon is such a recognizable figure that it can be hard to remember that I'd never actually read anything that he'd written (until now). Rating a Pynchon novel feels like a loaded exercise, like I'm wading into a generations-old war between one side that believes he's the greatest writer ever to put pen to paper and another side that believes that everyone from the first group is a pretentious know-nothing masquerading as an intellectual. 👇
One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
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