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).

written as a series of documents: letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents

outside of a novel

87

to speak extranovelistically

—p.87 Why Bother? (55) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
7 years, 8 months ago

to speak extranovelistically

—p.87 Why Bother? (55) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
7 years, 8 months ago

(noun) deceitfulness; untrustworthiness

87

perfidiously happy-faced

—p.87 Why Bother? (55) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
7 years, 8 months ago

perfidiously happy-faced

—p.87 Why Bother? (55) by Jonathan Franzen
notable
7 years, 8 months ago

difficult to control; unruly; irritable and quarrelsome

love letter

a Latin word often translated as "ever upward" or "still higher" / NORTH AMERICAN: softwood shavings used for packing fragile goods or stuffing furniture.

noisy and labored

a chameleonlike person who is unusually ubiquitous (from Woody Allen film "Zelig")

(verb) hesitate or be reluctant to do something that one thinks may be wrong OR (noun) a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

151

never scruple to gouge your customers

—p.151 Sifting the Ashes (143) by Jonathan Franzen
strange
7 years, 8 months ago

never scruple to gouge your customers

—p.151 Sifting the Ashes (143) by Jonathan Franzen
strange
7 years, 8 months ago

an indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good and paid by the merchant/producer