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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Comics, Fiction  1 Comment

October 13, 2023May 11, 2023

La profezia dell’armadillo – Zerocalcare

I liked the last Zerocalcare book I read. I decided to go for another one. The nice person at the

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Fiction, Western  1 Comment

October 6, 2023May 11, 2023

Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty

A truly great Western

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy  1 Comment

September 29, 2023May 11, 2023

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

September 22, 2023August 25, 2023

A Dance with Dragons – George R R Martin

(Note, in case some of this doesn’t make sense in the future, this post was written on September 25 2022)

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Uncategorized  2 Comments

September 15, 2023May 11, 2023

Two Graphic Novels and a Biography about Caravaggio

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Fantasy, Fiction, Novel  5 Comments

September 8, 2023August 3, 2023

Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

The meanest thing I can say about this novel is to just ask the question “why do we demonize one-hit wonders anyway?”

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History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

September 1, 2023May 11, 2023

The Book – Kieth Houston

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction  0 Comments

August 25, 2023May 11, 2023

Antica Madre – Valerio Massimo Manfredi

A DNF. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

August 18, 2023May 11, 2023

Word and Object – Willard Van Orman Quine

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 11, 2023May 11, 2023

Heaven’s River – Dennis E. Taylor

When I was a kid, I could pick up a book that I had put down, even months later, and

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