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I read the Annihilation book, and watched the movie back to back. Might be the unusual case where a movie is as good or better than...

My lovingly handcrafted custom bookshelves were made for mass market books. Sadness.

There are definitely some folks who deserve to be in the "bad" column, for sure. But "drawing lines" is problematic. And as other...

I mean, it's a true story, so the logic is evidently there: had that family not shown that bigot how to better himself, he'd still be a...

Sheepsquatch from Fallout!

The book Not By the Sword, by Kathryn Watterson, is the true story of a Grand Dragon of the Klan in Nebraska who cut ties with the Klan...

Its insane how much better I feel since I strictly limit the addictive social media and my news consumption and other information...

Also surprisingly fascinating: convenience stores! I once hung out with the owner of a convenience store and his explanations of what...

I just finished "The Secret Life of Groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. Really interesting bit of investigative journalism and history about...

Anthologies and collections have their advantages. They're easier to put down in the middle, and if you don't like a given story at...

I know that I find anthologies of short stories more attractive than full novels for me to pick up and read right now. Tonight I got...

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com...

I enjoy short stories or novellas on the Kindle, but I'm not sure how much of a market there is for those. I typically see only big name...

I prefer trade paperbacks as a physical form factor, but there is (or at least was) a use-case for mass-market paper; I suppose for much...

Read Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman, which is an excellent discussion of how social media and the modern...