From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sun, 28 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-04-27, D  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I do have quite a nice and curated bookmark list. I use   
   >> it most often to keep track of books I want to buy, and   
   >> potential gifts for myself and my family.   
   >>   
   >> Apart from that, I'd say that I only use about 1% regularly   
   >> if at all. The rest were bookmarked once, because of   
   >> the enormously happy feeling in the soul that now it is   
   >> "forever" within my control. ;)   
   >>   
   >> What tends to happen 99% of the time is informal   
   >> bookmarking. That means I use a site, its stored in   
   >> the history so pops up first, and I use it again and   
   >> again... until I don't.   
   >>   
   >> So the bookmarks are a nice illusion.   
   >>   
   >> As for authors, they do tend to become worse over   
   >> time. Since you liked them at one point on time, at one   
   >> stage in their career, it is inevitable.  The author wants   
   >> to develop try new things, and that's when they stop being   
   >> interesting for me. Almost always. And very few author   
   >> resign themselves to write the same type of fiction all   
   >> their lives.   
   >   
   > I can't say they were my favorite authors, but I got   
   > into John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates back in the 1990s,   
   > and their writing worked absolute magick on my vocabulary.   
      
   I've only read one Joyce Carol Oates book in my life and that was a   
   history of boxing. Can you recommend a good second one?   
      
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