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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sometimes you're reading along, and a line just cuts right through your heart like a razor. From "The Lesser Bohemians" by Eimear McBride. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I distinctly remember this moment. The world is covered with words! (Thanks to Mrs. Horton, my First-Grade teacher back in the late Bronze Age...) #BookSky From "Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life" by Heather Cass White

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So many moments in this book that bring tears. "The Skin and its Girl" by Sarah Cypher. It's kind of a secret classic... (I don't even think the author knows how good her book actually is.) #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When you see it you'll laugh...

Crayon pics done by kids at Five Guys. The lower right shows a crime scene.. stick figures of 4 guys, one of whom is shooting the fifth guy. Caption is "4 guys now".

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Everybody reads Heart of Darkness, but my favorite Conrad novel is Lord Jim. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

From Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

HOW DID I END UP FOLLOWING THIS DRECK?

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

OK. Anybody else noticing weird AI breakfast posts from these, um.. "interesting new" accounts?

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Advice from a long-time veteran of the sinus wars. If you don't already have this. Get this. Any big box store or grocery or the Jungle place or whatever. Get it. Read the directions. Use it.

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Years ago I gave my neighbor, a young single mother with no car, a ride. In conversation it became apparent she literally did not know the difference between the Vietnam War & WWII. I told her my father was in WWII, but my young BIL was in Vietnam. Americans do not understand the history of Nazism.

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We are witnessing an echo from the past. From Peter Fritsche's "Hitler's First Hundred Days - When Germans Embraced the Third Reich"

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"Enforced no longer by hired goons - but by judges, lawyers, bailiffs and police." 😐 #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The reflex to hate is a real thing. Darkly (and unintentionally) funny footnote from Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in America:

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

In the early 18th century, there were radical anti-vaxxers. 🤣🤣🤣

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Published in the 60's, much of this book is true now more than ever. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

From "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" by Jack El-Hai. Absolutely relevant for this moment. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This bit from The Nazis – A Warning from History by Laurence Rees, is incredibly relevant. It resonates with what is happening around us right now. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm a gnarly old dude, but I think I'm channeling my inner 16-year-old. I think maybe(?) I read this book as a teenager, I don't even remember. And maybe she's not quite a seasoned full-bag-of-tricks novelist yet, but MAN, it's intense. This stabs right to the heart. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This is a rough book to read. The writing is brilliant though. And this is definitely Florida. #BookSky

It was kind of a rough, honky-tonk waterfront place, no screens, a
porch out over the waterway, the air heavy with sodden mosquitoes
and their thin bloody whine, and that liquid, chirping Florida night,
citrus and salt and boat gasoline. Palmettos and brown dirt and guys
with ponytails drinking beer and bourbon, ignoring the women
dressed in tight T-shirts, denim, and ruffles, outfits in styles that for
them had remained unchanged since the 1970s but were currently back
in fashion. Fat children up past their bedtime threw pieces of bread
and french fries into the oil-slicked, greasy water, poked sticks through
the slits in the floor and at one another, the Tiffanys and Heathers and
Jasons who would grow up to take their parents’ places at the bar.

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

No idea.. absolutely no idea...

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Wikipedia says they basically hire him under duress?

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Robert Caro spends thousands of pages documenting and detailing what a power-mad duplicitous repellent monster of a man Lyndon Johnson was -- and then we get this: #booksky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Reading some history to remind myself, America has always been a fucked up country. From Robert Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson, vol. III #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Wow. I actually bought a Real. Beand New. Physical. Book. 😁 #booksky

My new copy of the book "Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontane

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Basically word-salad gibberish...

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Vance just really is from another planet.

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I knew there was a reason I was reading this book. From the 3rd vol. of Robert Caro's bio of LBJ. The moment the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights. The young-ish (37 yrs old) mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey, speaking at the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia. #BookSky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Octavia Butler was one of our prophets. Parable of the Sower is hard to read. #booksky

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I'm just a foolish old white dude, but I'm diving into volume two of Robert Caro's iceberg-sized bio of LBJ, "Means of Ascent", and A.) I already learned something and B.) I'm already crying...

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hitler thought of it first...

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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flycatcher @olivesided.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

They're listing it as "local warehouse no import charges" at the moment. Must mean it's supposedly in a warehouse in the US somewhere? I might try to find items shipping from China...