Sentence of the Day: As a social scientist who is supposed to understand human nature, I am a bit embarrassed to admit that the benefits of my half beard took me by surprise. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things; Dan Ariely. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: As I finish this important book, I will leave you with its most heartbreaking sentence: I am eleven, and my father drains the oil out of my mother's car so she can't go anywhere. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: David Brame, Tacoma's lauded young police chief—the man who investigates Muhammad's local killing—is a murderer too. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

During these austere times, one must consider what to eat using the less popular cuts. Tomorrow, apparently, thanks to the frugality of Mrs Beaton, it’s osso buco.

Sentence of the Day: Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: He talks about drugs and alcohol and how they alter the nervous system, but he doesn't talk about other substances in the air and the water. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: No one's talking about it, but everybody's breathing it. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Dr. Jekyll has been at work here for a long time, nearly a hundred years, and his experiments are about to yield results. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Rock, air, fire, and water: they will not take no for an answer. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers; Caroline Fraser. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A world that shrugs at one kind of slaughter has developed a terrible immunity. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist's every action is necessarily one of self-defense. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Of all the aftereffects of the War on Terror years, the most frequently underestimated is the heightened derangement of language for the purpose of sanitizing violence. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Has @mark-carney.bsky.social been kidnapped by the US too?

Sentence of the Day: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This; Omar El Akkad. #Booksky

Why have I heard nothing from Mark Carney? Or Have I missed it? #Venezuela

The one thought that has been niggling me since I woke up today and saw the news is: And then what happens? #Venezuela

Sentence of the Day: Blonska lets them believe it, since belief consoles the believers. The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Are we borne along, never knowing who we’ll be or what we'll do any more than we know where the track will turn or when it'll come to a stop? The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: If she types fast enough, immerses herself deeply enough, she won't feel the time passing any more than a fish feels the water. The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It never ceases to amaze Mado that so many of her ground-down sex still cling to piety, long after the majority of their menfolk have ditched it. The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The Paris Express; Emma Donoghue. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It's hard to prove to someone you aren't something they think you are. Pick a Colour; Souvankham Thammavongsa. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: We laugh because the man is as old as a raisin that fell underneath a fridge from eighty years ago. Pick a Colour; Souvankham Thammavongsa. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Sometimes you show people how they come across and they can't even recognize themselves, laugh a little even. Pick a Colour; Souvankham Thammavongsa. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Looking at the two of us, them sitting on a chair above me, and me down low, you'd think I am not in charge. Pick a Colour; Souvankham Thammavongsa. #Booksky

Christmas books! # Booksky

Mrs Beaton came through bigtime this year. Merry Christmas , everyone.

Sentence of the Day: Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber; Ernest Hemingway. #Booksky

Where’s my #Canadian friends that are #NeverTrump that follow me and want to be in a starter pack to grow your accounts? Comment @capeacadia.bsky.social @grizzlydad.bsky.social Please repost! Thanks

Sentence of the Day: There wasn't time, of course, although it seemed as though it telescoped so that you might put it all into one paragraph if you could get it right. The Snows of Kilimanjaro; Ernest Hemingway. #Booksky

How come on the first official day of winter I already think we've had enough of winter already?

Those children, now women, some now dead women, were so utterly abused both physically and psychologically by perpetrators redacted from The Epstein Files, that anyone abetting any single one of those perpetrators, is a perpetrator themself. #Epsteinfiles #survivors

Sentence of the Day: The sun was as bright as fireworks and the sky was so clear you could look right through it - like looking through a blue window. Owls in the Family; Farley Mowat. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: I’ve told you how cunning an enemy trauma can be. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Doing a little arithmetic today, I calculated that the day I reach retirement age has a high probability of coinciding precisely with the day the world ends. #endoftheworld #retirement

Sentence of the Day: Call them silly rituals all you want, I say, but we must preserve happy memories because there will be times ahead when we will need them. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: It was about how being so fundamentally betrayed often made a person feel deserving of betrayal. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: I didn't have the slightest idea how an adult version of me should look. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: It is truly impossible to say how many men there were, in part because I didn't keep count, and in part because my interactions with many of them were so similar. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: And everything that had happened to me in Epstein's world had only confirmed that certain privileged men existed in a liminal space outside the law, no matter how dastardly their behavior. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky

Sentence of the Day: But his key requirement, other than looks, was vulnerability. Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre. #booksky