The U.S. has recorded over 32,000 whooping cough cases this year, compared with around 5,100 as of mid-December last year. Infants are most vulnerable to the bacterial infection. Source: Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade I had whooping cough as a 10-year-old back in the late 1950s. I almost died every time […]
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Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2024 “Here are Electric Lit’s Top 5 novels of 2024, followed by the best novels of the year.” Public Picks 2024 This is NOT your ordinary list. I guarantee you’ll find something here that interests you that isn’t included on all the other “best books of 2024” lists. This list
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Full disclosure: I signed up for the 2024 Discussion Challenge and did a miserable job at it. In evaluating my year of blogging in 2024, I realized that I actually did more discussion than I thought, but I didn’t specifically frame and label much of it as discussion. However, lately I’ve been thinking, more than
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Update on Comments Glitch The cause of the problem has been traced to Jetpack. Jetpack support has informed me that “this is an issue that our development team is aware of and working to resolve. It will likely be fixed in the next version of Jetpack in early January.” So that’s where we are. In
This year, we’ve said goodbye to so many beloved authors. Here is a snapshot of ten of the monumental authors who passed away in 2024, along with one recommendation of a work that embodies their literary legacy. Source: 10 Beloved Authors We Lost in 2024 | Tertulia
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(Feature image: Photo by Mira Kemppainen on Unsplash ) Holiday wishes to those celebrating triumph over the encroaching darkness by the return of the light. Read more about how winter solstice is celebrated around the world in the article linked above. And special wishes as well to those in the southern hemisphere celebrating summer solstice.
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I don’t know what happened this year. My pad-your-year-end-statistics-with-these-short-books list is usually longer than this. Either I didn’t come across many short-book recommendations, or I simply didn’t faithfully add them to the list. Anyhow, here you go: Three individual book titles and three lists. Links for the book titles are to descriptions on Goodreads. Happy
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Update on Comments Glitch The cause of the problem has been traced to Jetpack. Jetpack support has informed me that “this is an issue that our development team is aware of and working to resolve. It will likely be fixed in the next version of Jetpack in early January.” So that’s where we are. In
My Continued Apologies The comment glitch on this blog continues. My hosting provider has been helpful in trying to track down the cause. In the meantime, here’s a trick that has been working for me: If you type a comment and hit the “post comment” button, you’ll get the message “submitting comment,” followed by nothing.
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My Continued Apologies The comment glitch on this blog continues. My hosting provider has been helpful in trying to track down the cause. In the meantime, here’s a work-around that may may work: If you type a comment and hit the “post comment” button, you’ll get the message “submitting comment,” followed by nothing. But, if
