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Peter Parente
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Builds to fulfill. Cooks to unwind. Reads to enjoy. Scrolls to dissociate. He/him.

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📚🪐 All caught up on the Shadow of the Leviathan series with nowhere to go til June 2026. What to do, what to do.

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Book covers for The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Fam devoured (after frying). 🍽️
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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🍽️ Rice and Squash Bombe. Came out looking decent and tasting good.

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January 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🍽️ Last night's Riso al Forno alla Pizzaiola (according to NYT Cooking). Simple comfort food.

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Pic of the finished dish in a dutch oven
January 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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There was plenty of mingling of the chicken and potato flavors even with the parchment paper.
January 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🪐📚💙 Sign from the universe?
The "Is this a pigeon?" meme template with text replaced saying "Me", "Libby letting me skip the line today for The Midnight Library", and "Is this required reading for New Years resolutions?"
December 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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🍽️ Repeat winners from the past couple nights. Fantastic flavors.

Tonight? A night off from cooking for New Year's Eve. 🍸

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Korean Bulgogi Bologonese One-Pot Chicken and Lentils
December 31, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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🍽️ Linner success

1. Beef Tenderloin With Orange Horseradish Sauce
2. Potato Latkes
3. Garlicky, Buttered Carrots
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December 25, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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20 of 20: "He took Spiderness in unthought directions—he saw the deepness in the sky."

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Book cover of "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge
December 22, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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19 of 20: "The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here."

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Book Cover of Death's End by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
December 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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18 of 20: "I was twelve, and the twins were thirteen, the night the stars disappeared from the sky."

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Book cover of Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
December 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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17 of 20: "Nothing touched by empire stays clean"

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Book cover of "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine
December 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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16 of 20: "The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense."

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Book cover of Old Man's War by John Scalzi
December 18, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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15 of 20: "There’s something worse than monsters in that place: something that makes monsters."

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Book cover of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
December 17, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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14 of 20

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Book cover of "The Monk and the Philosopher: A father and son discuss the meaning of life" by Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard
December 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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13 of 20: "Would you like to hear the story of how Princess Nell made some friends in the Dark Castle, where she least expected it, and how they killed all of the trolls and made it a safe place to live?"

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Book cover of "The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" by Neal Stephenson.
December 16, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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12 of 20: "But much of history is unwritten. Remember this."

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Book cover of The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
December 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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11 of 20: “The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth,” recited Orphu, “would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and ..."

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Book cover of Ilium by Dan Simmons
December 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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10 of 20: .. and the rest of the books in the 1980s series which had explanations, illustrations, code for you to type in, run, and modify, and ✨ STICKERS ✨

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Book cover of Mr. Byte Presents Computer Games by Christopher Brown, a coding activity book for kids from 1984
December 11, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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9 of 20: "As kids we would assiduously unsee Ul Qoma, as our parents and teachers had relentlessly trained us ..."

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Book cover of The City & The City by China Miéville
December 10, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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8 of 20

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Book cover of Stardust by Neil Gaiman
December 9, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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7 of 20: "2) If you want to read the spell that says "Be Wise," turn to page 135"

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Cover of an Endless Quest™️ book "Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons" by Rose Estes
December 6, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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6 of 20: "For the human makers of things, the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation."

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Book cover of "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
December 5, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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5 of 20: "While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us." ⏩ "While we live, we're alive. And that's all."

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Book cover of "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh
December 4, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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4 of 20: "There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been."

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Book cover of The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
December 3, 2024 at 12:02 PM