Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Canada 2023: Waterton Lakes National Park Day 1 - Crandell Lake, Linnet Lake, and Many Glacier

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 This year flights to Europe was incredibly expensive --- I did spot a flight in January to Copenhagen for $750, but one day's hesitatio...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Reread: The Mists of Avalon

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 I don't remember when I first read The Mists of Avalon --- given the publication date it must have been in college or between high sch...
Thursday, July 06, 2023

Review: Chip War

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 I checked out Chip War from the library expecting to be underwhelmed, and to some extent I was --- I was already familiar with the Silicon...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Reread: Fables #1-75

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 You can pick up the first major story arc of Fables in two compendiums: Fables Compendium One Fables Compendium Two I do not recommend read...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Review: Blue Lock 1-10

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 Boen is a huge soccer fanatic, so I tried to find him a comic book that has soccer that he'll like. Blue Lock came up repeatedly as a ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Review: The End of the World is Just the Beginning

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 I checked out The End of the World is Just the Beginning because someone referenced it as being a good book on the end of globalization. H...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Review: Sandman Act III

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 The Sandman Act III covers the Orpheus Sandman Special, Brief Lives, and the Short Stories at World's End. Having recently read Stephe...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Re-read: The Killing Joke

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 It's been a long time since I read any new Alan Moore, and I'd almost forgotten that he'd written a few Batman stories, the mos...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Reread: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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 After The Graveyard Book , I found The Ocean at the End of the Lane in the Kindle Unlimted library, and started reading it to Boen. Neil G...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Review: Astro City - Ordinary Heroes

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 I ran out of ways to buy cheap used copies of Astro City - Ordinary Heroes , so I was stuck paying full tilt in digital form, which is outr...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Re-read: The Graveyard Book

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 Boen asked for something scary for bedtime reading (yeah, I know, the kids wants to be scared), so I picked The Graveyard Book despite it ...

Review: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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 When I went to college, the creative writing courses were so impacted that I had no chance of getting in after competing with the students ...
Thursday, June 08, 2023

Review: Honor Guard and Reflections

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 I got impatient with reading the books one at a time, so I bought Honor Guard and Reflections simultaneously and they arrived on the same ...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Review: Osprey Savu 5

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 My long beloved Matador Beast 28 is slowly dying, with a rip slowly working its way around the waist belt. My big problem with the Matador...
Monday, June 05, 2023

Review: No Excuses - Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

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 I picked up No Excuses during an audible sale. Usually I enjoy the Great Courses series, but this one was a dud. The lecturer basically we...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

Review: The Righteous Mind

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 The Righteous Mind is divided into 3 parts. The first two are at the very least enlightening and gives you plenty to think about, and the ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Review: Ultimate High

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 Arley Lewis recommended Ultimate High as the opposite of incompetence literature. It's an account of Goran Kropp's  trip to climb ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Review: What We Owe The Future

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 When I first heard about What We Owe The Future , I thought that longtermism would be easy to explain and the book wouldn't have much t...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Review: Politics is for Power

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 Politics is for Power is an indictment of something I've been guilty of: treating politics the way sports fans treat sports, reading a...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Review: Lovers Quarrel

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 Lovers Quarrel is an Astro City story arc focused on Quarrel and Crackerjack. Earlier volumes have established Crackerjack as a blowhard, b...