Esther Schindler Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Esther Schindler

My review of Jacques Pépin Art Of The Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird Oh, I do like this -- but it's not a standard cookbook. Think of it as "a memoir with recipes." https://t.co/fDWrcIURBI

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My review of _The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N_ I have a mixed reaction to this book. It is still amusing, but not in the ways that I think my parents perceived it. https://t.co/yX6ttaoV8O

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@Rindie611 @KlasfeldReports In _Against Our Will_ Susan Brownmiller wrote that rape is "nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." I read it when it was new, and her depiction of rape-as-power stayed with me. https://t.co/5IjUfdN3aM

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What book have you RE-read recently? Me: Cordelia's Honor. I always find something new in it. This time around, I realized that the entire SF story in Barrayar is about the meaning of parenthood. Not what most people associate with science fiction. https://t.co/zGmPM5uNbL

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Any of my buddies interested in blurbing a book about Machine Learning Security Principles? You get a free copy of the book, and (presuming you genuinely like it) write a, "What a useful book" paragraph that goes on its Amazon page. Established author. DM if interested.

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This book excerpt from _Understanding Software Dynamics_ discusses measuring what the operating-system and device microcode layers of “automatic transmission” are decide to do, when, compared to measuring simple user-mode “manual transmission” behavior. https://t.co/zV1Dae5gLA

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YA books can be thoughtful and fun, and they stick to just one storyline. That's a _good_ thing. And with Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink, Stephanie Kate Strohm delivers. https://t.co/c9CXtcqFdN

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The winner of this year’s Caldecott Medal, given annually to “the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children,” was Doug Salati for his Hot Dog. https://t.co/oVnBSKVyK4

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TIL Isaac Asimov, a 21-year-old American Jew watching Hitler’s seemingly unstoppable march across Europe in 1941, dreamed up the Foundation Trilogy and its fictional science of psychohistory as a means of assuring himself everything would be ok. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/books/review/isaac-asimov-psychohistory.html

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and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number, a beautifully restored Third Reich swizzle stick, Rosemary's baby, a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams, a new Matador, a new mastodon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego, a Mercury Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,