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What I Read in 2025
Books in bold are superior favorites. I’ve been trying to whip one of my drafts of Provoked into shape fit for posting but am still not happy yet. It will happen, though. I’m close. January(1) Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi … Continue reading
The Best of 2025 — Annual Year in Review!
Here we are at the end of another year. After the distressing takeover of fiction in 2024, I was determined to not let that happen again. Then entered CJ Box, whose 26-strong Joe Pickett series lassoed my intentions off their … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday – 2025’s Last One!
WHAT have you finish reading recently? Marce Catlett: The Force of Story, Wendell Berry. WHAT are you currently reading? President without a Party, Christopher Leahy. An ….incredibly…..detailed….policy history of the Tyler presidency. Also, Jon Meacham’s biography of Andrew Jackson. I … Continue reading
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Marce Catlett and the Force of Story
Marce Catlett The Force of a Story takes a life we’ve visited with previously and then visits with it for a while, learning how the story of Andy Catlett was really a continuation of a story in which his grandfather … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Catlett, Port William, Southern Literature, Wendell Berry
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End Year Short Rounds: Frankenstein, Merlin, and Stephen Douglas
Although I ostensibly took a break from the blog on Christmas eve to focus on real life and all that, part of my brain is resolutely blog-oriented and insisted I keep reading so that I did not fail the Science … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, science
Tagged 1850s, Astronomy, chemistry, history, Jefferson Davis, Mark Miodownik, Mary Roach, medicine, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Douglas, the impending crisis
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Harry Potter and the Quest to Get Expelled: Full Cast Audio!
Recently I took a chance on the full-cast audio version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone that’s just come out. I say “took a chance” because the preview on Audible does not communicate the nature of the book especially … Continue reading
Science Survey, 2025!
Yes, despite entering the month with three items pending, and despite my history obsession and the sloth that comes with the holidays, I knocked out Chemistry/Physics, Biology, and Local Astronomy this past week. Hurrah for the Christmas holidays! ….reviews will … Continue reading
And this is why we do not discuss politics at Christmas lunch
(Yes, yes, I know I’m taking a break, but I read this today and it was too funny and too appropriate to leave alone.) “On December 25, 1847, one day after Cass wrote to Nicholson, [Jefferson] Davis confronted colleague Henry … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday
WHAT have you finished reading recently? Bosom Friends, a book examining the alliance between James Buchanan and William Rufus King, and Zachary Taylor, a biography of President Zachary Taylor. Also, Millard Fillmore by the aptly named Finkleman. I will not … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Hail to the Chief, memes and surveys, Millard Fillmore, the impending crisis, WWW Wednesday
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