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A little progress

Posted by linkmeister on 3 August 2023, 9:16 pm

In the center of the room are books, CDs and vinyl records in boxes awaiting more shelving. On the right is another pair of containers on the wall awaiting paint and shelves. The back wall will have more shelves added to fit paperbacks and CDs; I think the DVDs will go out to the living …

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Festina lente

Posted by linkmeister on 20 July 2023, 9:35 pm

I didn’t have enough shelves built. There are three book series there: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe® (24 books); J.A. Jance’s J.P. Beaumont books (25 books); she’s got two more series of 19 and 16 books respectively, and they need to fit on there too; and J.D. Robb’s In Death series (55 books …

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Homework

Posted by linkmeister on 21 September 2010, 2:30 pm

Down here I mentioned I’d really like to read Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Winner-Take-All Politics, because it told the tale of how big business figured out how to lobby the Feds. Well, it arrived at the library a week or so ago and it turns out I was the first one in the state …

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