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The Wrong Kind of Scary
Right at the end of September, I found out that I needed a second mammogram scan. I wasn't worried about it at all. I thought they'd...
Oct 31, 20241 min read
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Spooky Season '24
I'm usually much more into spooky season than I am this year, and I think that it's so hot!
Oct 21, 20242 min read
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See it or read it: His Dark Materials
In deciding whether to see it or read it, in a series like His Dark Materials, I don't think that any movie is going to be able to equal...
Sep 14, 20243 min read
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The Bright Sword
I was so stoked for this. I almost fell off a chair when I saw that the guy who wrote The Magicians was coming out with a King Arthur story.
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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I can't read when I have a headache, and I can't stop having headaches
I had to call in sick, and I watched 3 movies. All this free time, and I'm watching TV like a dummy. I just can't read when my head aches.
Jul 31, 20242 min read
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Time travel and sort-of time travel
Reading The Ministry of Time and trying to listen to The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Neverland: enough Peter Pan adaptations to keep us all from growing up
Ogden Nash:
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely
Jun 1, 20244 min read
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A DNF cemetary and three titles finished this year
I've written before about getting more persnickety about my reading and about clawing my way out of a post-covid reading slump. While...
May 17, 20243 min read
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Books of the future: Breaking the Dark
Breaking the Dark was a really quick read. I haven't read the comics, just watched the shows, but I was able to keep up with it.
Apr 25, 20244 min read
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Climbing out of my slump, and I am doing just fine
Reading with brain fog.
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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