Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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brio

Both boys were rapists, not just the one who had the brio to announce it so insouciantly.

—p.67 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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prurient

inquiring into her sex life with such grotesque prurience that it led to the strengthening of New Jersey’s rape shield laws

—p.65 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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desultory

Instead, they threw parties that followed a rigid script: first the guys would watch porn while the girls chatted among themselves. When the groups did interact, the guys would make a desultory show of chivalrous ardor, rolling their eyes at one another when they could without the girls noticing

—p.64 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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carillon

There was a carillon, the sound of myriad glass bells pealing under the roof

stupidly thought it meant like crow lol

—p.53 Rededication (39) missing author
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scarce capital produces a class of rentiers

Keynes’s second anxiety was that scarce capital produces a class of rentiers who invest in ownership rather than productivity. McDonnell uses this insight to argue for rent controls and tenants’ rights to dramatically alter the balance of power in housing; he seeks limits on the debt that credit ca…

—p.33 Renewed Labour (24) by Barnaby Raine