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I think I am gonna go for it! Sort of think I need to go back to the beginning because everything is so hazy in my memory.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 10h

I have been following your Hobb journey and it reeeeallly makes me want to dive in ... but as someone who did the orig Assassin trilogy maybe 15 years ago and then stopped (and subsequently forgot most of it) I am kinda daunted. (Possibly terrified.)

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 22h

This is my favorite cover for an Amazon edition of the medieval chanson de geste La Chanson de Roland.

Cover for an e-book of The Song of Roland in which Roland is apparently a bearded, possibly Pacific northwest hipster strumming a guitar in the hills near a river.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ohh, nice find! Yeah, I would love to find these in French translation and see if the exact register contours carry over across translations in the Romance languages.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

YES! It is the most emotionally charged scene in the book, I think, and that slide into intimacy was just perfect. The audiobooks are not all released in Spanish, but Komarr and ACC are next up. I am really looking forward to seeing how the translator handles Miles and Ekaterin's pronoun use.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What I love is that just a few lines before, the "I can love you, grieve with you, but not judge you" is STILL formal. It's her "I love you" while refusing the proposal that does it. And thereafter they are both in informal.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It does not happen until after the war, during the second proposal (after they have come clean about the real reason for the invasion). His proposal is still in the formal, and C is the one to switch with "Te quiero."

Short passage in Spanish from Shards of Honor, marking shift from usted to tú.

Passage in English of Shards of Honor for reference.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, there is the "Dear C-Captain" during his initial proposal (before Stuben's arrival to rescue her). A is still calling C by usted. And later, when A arrives just after the Vorrutyer scene, he mouths her name. Still using usted.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That would make sense but it is soooo much later. That confessional is all still in the formal register. When I tell you I was in agony waiting for it! (I will share in a sec, but want to guess who made the switch first?)

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Want to guess where it happens? I think the translator absolutely nailed it.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am currently listening to the audiobooks in Spanish. Listening to SoH was like getting to read it for the first time, nearly 30 years later. And what I was waiting for, the biggest source of tension, was when C and A would switch over from usted to tú. It was just sublime.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The questions get so much worse the farther you go. So many where I outright reject the premise or framing, and really strange implication that women and Black people are primarily motivated by unfounded grievances.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you read the Claudia Gray mysteries that interweave the Austen novels' characters? I feel like that series could be good source material for an Austen-inspired CU.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can we make “development for the adult force” a slogan?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Wuttup wuttup wuttup, followers, it’s ya boi, Thomas Stearns, smash that like and follow! If this get ten thousand likes I’ll EAT THIS PEACH with rolled trousers!” *stares silently into the camera for several minutes

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh no! Did the bottle survive unscathed?

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the interest of avoiding your fate ... what kind of glass bottle was capable of that much damage? I am a little awed.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Small note: when you quote a previous post to resume a thread, Bluesky treats it as a new thread so the mute doesn't hold. At least, that was the case a few weeks ago when I had one of those threads muted.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher! Quirky premise (teen wizard whose only gift is enchanting dough) but so full of heart -- it holds up to multiple readings.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 911 points · 10 rare words. Only 36 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/KGZZMF

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OUTLIER · Day 102

anborn scored 911 on Day 102. Can you beat them?

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I would be absolutely fascinated to read that.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You know, it's ridiculous to build data centers and then have the power company sending out emails like, "the grid is in peril! Unplug your TV, toaster, and laptop today for three hours to save energy!" You know what else saves energy?! Knocking down data centers and not building more!

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It was so much nicer learning about gutta percha by reading your book than mid-root canal. (Both experiences were informative but smut book was vastly preferable!)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Luddite" ys not the insult you thynke it ys

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Bookstore Romance Day @handle.invalid · 15/08/2026

The last (?) bookstores have now been added to the roster of #BookstoreRomanceDay bookstores & the final tally is 1,031 participating bookstores for 2026—an increase of almost 70% over 2025. Go show one or more of them a little love today, in person or online. bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

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Find a Bookstore

Every independent bookstore that has signed up to participate in Bookstore Romance Day 2026 thus far. If you don’t see your favorite, encourage them to join us! A link to the registration for…

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can't wait to hear what you think of Shirlene Obuobi's other book. It's such a wild ride and I spent most of it unsure what genre I was in (vampire? horror? Is this thing a romance???) ... but in the best possible way. I just recommended it enthusiastically to a colleague last night.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I would never, ever have guessed who that was supposed to be. Probably not even if you told me it was a local coach.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A brittle rubber band that will snap when you attempt to stretch it out.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I did watch all of s1 and ... remember it.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You are making me think I need to watch s2 after all.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yes, I am back to paper for most tasks these days. But longer form writing (research papers, short stories, personal essays) can't and should not be limited to what can happen in a class period. At my school that is a 45-minute window.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Authors should talk to educators, who have been in the trenches on this for a few years now.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I don't think anyone should claim 100% confidence. But ... I really think you would be surprised just how messy keyboard composition is, even for professional writers, when it isn't transcription by a trained typist. And in creative writing there are also pauses to compose that are visible.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Or pay someone else to do so, sure. But it is surprisingly easy to tell the difference because simple retyping will look very linear. Actual typing tends to look more chaotic with deletions, edits, moving things around. Watching a timelapse of the document I can be fairly confident which I'm seeing.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That already exists as a Chrome extension for Google Docs. Teachers use it to review document composition, keystroke by keystroke, when they suspect students of using AI on compositions.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Rousseau was such a pariah! Joe Gerth's pre-obituary of McConnell reminded me of the dog jumping incident and how everyone was just scathing when they thought Rousseauhad died.

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Attempting a quick reread but *goodness* the ebook needed a lot more cleanup after an apparent optical scan job.

...if you’re thinking of throwing yourself on the mercy of any of your friends, don’t bother Stanhope Industries is the primary source of employment in Ridgemont, and I now own every scrap of it No one here will want to help you at the risk of incurring my displeasure —and the loss of their jobs.”

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Annie @annebornschein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

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