Lissa Johnston

Fellow book lovers: show me your TILs. I’ll go first: TIL rare earth metals aren’t called that because they’re rare. They’re not.

Books for a Grammar Workout Build your writing muscle with these books on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric.

Give your writing muscles a workout this week with these surprisingly fun books on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric.

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What the online trend of 'looksmaxxing' means for young men “Beauty is pain,” or so the saying goes.

This was a real eye-opener the1a.org/segments/wha...

I have these dates with myself all the time. Well, except for the cemetery picnic. Those are more just me walking around looking for good names to use in my next book.

You have a unique creative voice. The world is a better place when you share it. - Dan Blank

Fun fact:

The next Saturday without a baseball game will be in November

Feel warmer yet?

And wow what beautiful cover art

Stephen Colbert Just Gave Brendan Carr a Free Lesson in the Streisand Effect CBS and the FCC are once again trying to control the Late Show host. So far, it's backfiring spectacularly.

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If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Had to gently splain to the hubs today the quickest path to a divorce is asking me if I want new car mats for my birthday

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

So thankful we had the option to vote using machines today. Last fall it was paper only and it felt like we needed a stone tablet and a chisel.

I'm at the stage of my life where I make decisions about furniture based on whether or not the cat will be mad if I get rid of it

YouTube video by NPR Music Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert

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The slow and productive burn of anger is an asset. - Soraya Chemaly

Yep thought the same when we saw this one for sale in Pittsburgh last fall. Magnificent view.

This Valentine’s Day, give love and books.

Valentine Secrets and true confessions

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A Year with Homer: Reading The Iliad and The Odyssey Navigating the passages between books and being

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Dr. Anthony ’Tony the Tiger’ ‘Meowchi’ Fauci right after we adopted him. He’s about to turn 6 in March. #caturday

ooh what are you reading

And we are reading The Trees for one of my book clubs next month.

Ooh I just bought this! Loved James. Loved Erasure.

‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

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Oh yes love this make it often

not only can you subscribe to PBS+ for less money than ad-free rightwing Paramount+ but you can watch a multi-hour documentary about the American Revolution that will guide you through our horrible times

Yum. Try them cubed, oven-roasted with EVOO, salt, pepper, and cayenne.

2025: My Year In Books Part 1

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