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I like to mix in books on football with my other reading as palette cleansers, and I just finished How to Win the Premier League by Ian...

Your retinas can have freckles and birthmarks. (My caregiver and I had our annual eye exams today. I don’t have any such retinal...

Yeah, I’ve listened to his podcast where he’s gone into this and it still feels very much like educated hobbyist but still a lot of...

I just finished reading The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo, an 1819 work by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, and even before I can get into...

I think I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I continue to think about a Grishaverse setting. I'd almost be tempted to homebrew, but with a...

The only D&D mention in the Q2 2025 prepared remarks was the newly announced video game. Nothing that lost less than 1% nor grew more...

It’s true. But wow is it hard to live up to in practice sometimes. I’m trying to cultivate the discipline of knowing when it’s time to...

People are both allowed to like whatever they want and also not like whatever they want. Subjective tastes are subjective.

Relevant to the discussion: TwoMorrows publishing filed a legal objection...

I worked for 25 years for an international freight forwarder, one of those middlemen, or as you call them, parasites. It much cheaper...

Heyer is an interesting contrast to Austen because she’s basically writing Georgian romantic fiction more than a century after the fact...

Also, Beowulf is awesome when it's not being yelled at disinterested sixth graders.

Let's not forget that part of Tolkien's professional legacy was apologism for Beowulf- getting it taken more seriously as a literary...

Moonseed by Stephen Baxter is good imo. That one is alright with it's focus more on one person/family than humanity as a whole.

Oh, mi! A Jamacian werewolf. A uu eva ier bout soch a ting?