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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deictic

It killed it. The deictics are so vague. Nobody really knows what hurts or what helps.

—p.42 DEVIL’S BAIT (27) by Leslie Jamison
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dross

Otherwise, last words are dross, like the defunct human body.

—p.486 The Essayist: December 2011 (480) by Martin Amis
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asperities

If you can lay down a verbal surface free of asperities (bits of lint and grit), you will already be giving your readers some modest subliminal pleasure

—p.443 How to Write: The Uses of Variety (442) by Martin Amis
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panegyric

Of all the literary genres, panegyric is easily the dullest. Yet I must now praise the Hitch.

—p.435 Beelzebub (424) by Martin Amis
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brio

until recently I was retching and whimpering away with some brio

—p.393 How to Write: Decorum (389) by Martin Amis
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