Baffled, not baffled
I find myself startled (all over again) by how badly our political system is dealing with Our Only President. The magnificent genius of our system is that it expects that sometimes a bad man will get elected, to some office…
It’s pronounced AY-tahz, unless you’re from the Midwest, where they pronounce it A-toes.
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Just to break up the Book Reports a little, how about an AtoZ? Courtesy of my LibraryThing, which makes it easier. A is for Alice in Wonderland, which isn’t too surprising. B is for Beowolf, because it’s becoming culturally hot…
Book Report: River Secrets
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Your Humble Blogger had read Goose Girl a few years ago and enjoyed it, and then forgotten who wrote it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Less so, since I started trying to blog everything I read, so that’s…
Book Report: Clouds of Witness
All right, so why is it that Your Humble Blogger likes Lord Peter Wimsey, but doesn’t actually like the Lord Peter books very much? The latest reread to disappoint was Clouds of Witness, which wasn’t really bad, but wasn’t particularly…
Book Report: Rashi’s Daughters
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I had heard very good things about Rashi’s Daughters Book I: Joheved, a historical novel about, well, Rashi and his daughters. And their husbands. It was much, much trashier than I expected it to be. Which was good. Lots of…
a rambling note, with a question
Well, and Your Humble Blogger goes out of town for a few days and all hell breaks loose. Actually, Hell didn’t break loose at all. And, frankly, if it did, I think out of town is exactly where I would…
Book Report: The Hallowed Hunt
Having recently reread both The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, I thought I may as well finish up and reread The Hallowed Hunt. And so I did. It was fun, a perfectly entertaining book. I don’t have any…
Not the municipality in which YHB is resident, fortunately
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Your Humble Blogger is attempting to re-enter the workforce. Well, and there it is. It’s a revenue thing. Anyway, having applied for a position at a nearby public library, I was invited to attend a test for applicants for that…
Spoilers
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So. Your Humble Blogger doesn’t go out to see a lot of movies, these days. Which means I don’t see a lot of trailers. Now, I could watch a lot of trailers, because they are all on-line, but why would…
Now he belongs to the ages, if they’ll have him
The sun had sunk entirely under the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Nobody was surprised by that. You could set your watch by it, if you happened to have a newspaper and a good view. You could, again, set your…