Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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bruited

they returned to redeem their collateral eight of ten times, a ludicrous claim I later learned was bruited by scheming brokers regardless of region.

like bandied about?

—p.65 Afternoon of the Pawnbrokers (62) missing author
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equanimity

It’s an equal feat, traversing registers: the droll, meditative equanimity of his fiction, and the ardor, sometimes anger, of his nonfiction.

—p.56 Back to the Land (54) missing author
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exigent

As the exigencies of climate change begin to bear down on the West, the story of Butte becomes particularly important. A place that had so much wealth, whose land and people gave so much of themselves to the world, was left to clean up an impossible mess.

—p.48 Lives of the Saints (47) missing author
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desultory

These editors asking you to rip the yarn never talk about politics beyond a possible desultory nod toward wanting stories from writers of “diverse backgrounds.” They do not talk about voice or literary style.

pretty

—p.21 They Made a Movie Out of It (16) missing author
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enervating

a dramatic illustration of the enervation of American journalism in the last couple of decades

I always get this one confused

—p.19 They Made a Movie Out of It (16) missing author
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