A Long Climb Over Shortcomings

Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 12:09 am
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Click through for this one.
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The Proving Trail

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 11:18 pm
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The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour

The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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It's a birthday!

Monday, August 11th, 2025 06:43 am
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Happy Birthday, [personal profile] gamgeefest! I hope you're having a peaceful summer.

cut to the snake

Monday, August 11th, 2025 12:16 am
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I think I may have to muck about with how many heads the snakes have. One by one is too slow. The snakes are menaces, not things to tick off as they advance

Perhaps only odd numbers of heads?

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader

Monday, August 11th, 2025 12:13 am
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Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.

Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.

To Tame a Land

Sunday, August 10th, 2025 05:04 pm
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To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour

You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.

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vignette

Sunday, August 10th, 2025 10:54 am
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This week's prompt is:
range 🐦

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

The School Reader. Third Book

Friday, August 8th, 2025 11:35 pm
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The School Reader. Third Book: Containing Progressive Lessons in Reading, Exercises in Articulation and Inflection, Definitions, by Charles Walton Sanders

The third book is still focused on reading. Very few of the pieces come with bylines. Still, it's taking on the aspect of the later readers, with the focus on good readings, edifying and instruction.

May be chiefly of interest in view of what they selected in the era.

Ghost in the Tombs

Friday, August 8th, 2025 05:45 pm
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Ghost in the Tombs by Jonathan Moeller

Caina's 32nd book. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

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unpacking

Thursday, August 7th, 2025 11:49 pm
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The heroine is actually going to talk with a girl to find out secrets.

That means I have to pull the secrets out of the summary and feed them to her.

 At least, I know there's going to be a dramatic attack at the end of this.

Sanders' young ladies' reader

Thursday, August 7th, 2025 11:33 pm
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Sanders' young ladies' reader : embracing a comprehensive course of instruction in the principles of rhetorical reading : with a choice collection of exercises in reading, both in prose and poetry, for the use of the higher female seminaries, as also, the higher classes in female schools generally by Charles W. Sanders

A selection of prose and poetry intended for elocution classes. Interesting, nowadays, chiefly for the selections choosing. With an eye to variety, the preface assures us, because they are intended for the young.

This one is, unlike the fourth and fifth readers, aimed specifically at girls. Which means a couple on the education of women and the necessity of its being for their whole lives, and not the flurry of society to win their husbands, and more female characters in the stories. It has a couple of selections that overlap with those readers.

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