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Just now watching Handmaid's Tale on Hulu. 3 eps in, and it's really good. My family was shocked to find out that's it's 40 years old. They were convinced that it had to be recent because of things they saw as references to the pandemic and the current political climate.

Incredibly prescient.

If you are on Spotify, I just now found their audiobooks section. Most cost extra, but many are free... I mean, who can resist the Chronicles of Narnia in German...amiright I just found the same in Spotify. I have a premium Spotify family plan already, so there's a bunch that I already have access ...

Almost 23,000 verified dead. Likely up to 30,000 actual dead. Over 60,000 wounded. My math says that out of the approx 2 million people in Palestine before this started, Israeli forces have killed 1% of them and injured another 3%. And that's leaving out all the other indignities being suffered. The...

I had 101 books read to me in 2023. 900 hours of audiobook listening, so an average of 9 hours per book. As far as I can tell, 50% of the books I read were written by women, and 28% by persons of color. Just counting them up based on my recollections, only 20% had any queer representation (good or b...

Signal Fires -- Dani Shapiro It is a well written novel about two families that live across the street from each other, and even though they don't interact much, their lives are intertwined through two or three generations. It's a very human drama about the interconnectedness of all things. And it'...

You there! Boy! What day is it?

Why, it's Kyle's birthday, of course.

Then I'm not too late. I'm not too late! The ghosts did it all in one night!

Happy Birthday, Kyle!

BOOM! And that's 100 books in a year! Pressure's off! Yes! Now you can get sucked into the world of Sanderson, where you will take two months to finish a book! Ahahahahaha! I mean, I just finished book three today on my drive in (54 hours) and I'm going to start book 4 (57 hours) on the drive home!...

BOOM!

And that's 100 books in a year! Pressure's off!

The Long Cosmos -- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Wow. I really enjoyed this. I mean, I've enjoyed all of them in this 5-book Long Earth series, but it was a series of diminishing returns until this one. I'm assuming it's because all the disparate strands of this overwhelmingly epic setting all...

This Time Tomorrow -- Emma Straub I don't want to give much away. Alice is turning 40, she wakes up as her 16 year old self on her 16th birthday. She has a chance to do some things over, 13 going on 30 style... or maybe Peggy Sue got married. The book is hyper aware of its roots and Alice is well v...

Switch -- A.S. King Difficult read. The entire earth has slipped into a fold in time, and in June, time just stopped. People still moved and things still happened, but the clocks all stopped, and time wasn't flowing. Separately, Truda Becker's family is broken and traumatized. No one speaks to anyo...

I wish I knew how to quit you, Apple TV.

Feed -- M.T. Anderson Don't even look at my review. Just trust me and go read it. The audiobook is only 5 hours long. Set in an America that is maybe 100 years in the future. From a very young age, almost all people are implanted with technology which allows direct access at all times to the Feed, ...

Thistlefoot -- GennaRose Nethercott Isaac Yaga and his younger sister Bellatine have just received their inheritance from their great great grandmother, Illa. It was shipped over from the old country in a giant-ass crate. And if you've seen the cover of the book, you already know it's Baba Yaga's H...

Andre Braugher, who I know best as Captain Holt from Brooklyn Nine Nine, died yesterday at 61.

I'm sad.

You could get a shared whiteboard app, which is functional, but not perfect. Because what you really want is two devices that have the shared whiteboard app always on and permanently linked to one another. That makes it foolproof for both the very young and the very old. I don't find anything like i...

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home -- Joseph Fink and Jeremy Cranor My review mirrors Kyle's from last year. The only difference is that I was already familiar with the Nightvale universe before reading this. Welcome to Nightvale is a long running podcast about the small desert ...

The Midnight Library -- Matt Haig Nora's life has fallen apart, and she decides to kill herself. In the moment of death, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. The books are all stories of the lives she could have lived if she had made different decisions. Reading a book lets her step into that...

Yeah. Exactly like that.

Ain't that fascinating? That's refreshing. I'm assuming the admission of error contains a lot of bullshit and is primarily PR to wash over their previous claims. And I'm also assuming most people will never see this news and the earlier images of organized shoplifting mobs picking stores clean like ...

I think they don't like the civilian impact at all and are trying to curtail it. But they're also not just going to come out for a ceasefire, so... The latest news is that Biden and his administration are sternly warning the Israeli government that due to changing worldwide sentiment about the grow...

Crying in H Mart -- Michelle Zauner Fantastic! Michelle Zauner is a musician and author of mixed American-Korean heritage. This is her memoir of dealing with her mother's death. But far more than that, it is a love letter to Korean food, and it's glorious. Michelle's mother was about my age when ca...

Let me bring my point down to it's essence. Let's leave aside property destruction, physical injury, forcing people from their homes, basic human rights violations, and other things that Israel might be accused of... ignore all of that. The question I desperately want answered by the Biden administr...

Personally, I think the stated intent of the current leadership of the Israeli government is pretty relevant to their motivations and likely actions, but okay. You describe the population density of Warsaw at its height, but the Gazan crisis is still working towards its height. 350,000 people per sq...

The Long Utopia -- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Book 4 out of 5. As Kyle says, there's some diminishing returns here, but the development of the setting is so compelling. There are flaws, and some logical issues for me, and it's gotten to the point where 80% of the dialogue is just setting ex...

(I) am somewhat shocked by the comparison to Jewish ghettos under the Nazis... I don't know where that is coming from. That's part of the problem, I suppose: that someone like yourself can't even see where the comparison stems from. And I'm specifically calling Gaza a ghetto, not a prison or concen...

As usual, my thoughts are running too long, so I will put them on pause for a minute for this quick news break: Remember how they cleared out Northern Gaza and pushed the people of one of the most densely populated places on earth into half the space? And then a week or two ago, I pointed out that t...

My excess ranting that I'm carrying over from the Democrats thread: As for the shine being off of Biden for many Democrats, especially young ones ane people of color, I'm telling you, I think it's Palestine. I mean, it's a lot of things, many of which you mentioned, but in the end Joe Biden not only...

As for the shine being off of Biden for many Democrats, especially young ones and people of color, I'm telling you, I think it's Palestine. I mean, it's a lot of things, many of which you mentioned, but Palestine/Israel is a trigger that put a lot of things in perspective. [After this, I typed A LOT...

Okay. You clearly have more.knowledge on this and probably more direct recent experience as well, so hopefully you can provide some more clarity. From my perspective, in general, most Americans claim to believe in free speech, but also, most Americans believe there is a certain point at which speech...

I agree with a lot of the rest of your post, and I have trouble supported Biden as well, but for different reasons. Like you, the Dems aren't making me happy, but I definitely think allowing Trump to win would be the greater evil. I have other thoughts that are not quite fully formed yet, but while ...

Road Out of Winter -- Alison Stine Post apocalyptic road story. This is the second year (third maybe?) without a summer in Ohio Appalachia. Our narrator is a young woman from the backwoods whose folks ran off to California last year, and she's been left to maintain the basement weed farm all on her...

Oof! If those two can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have?

Kyle, were there any hints of this in the book?

Please Report Your Bug Here -- Josh Riedel Trippy. Ethan works as one of only three employees at a startup for an app called DateDate. He clicks to find his test account's 'perfect match', and a glitch occurs, and Ethan sees himself as somewhere else for just a few moments. The novel is him trying ...

Rosalynn Carter, 96.

I know we said Hamas was under al-Shifa, and that's why we evacuated all of Northern Gaza to squeeze everyone into half the space, but it turns out that Hamas is actually in Khan Younis, so now we need to cut your space in half again. Wait... did I say 'half'? Because that's probably way too generou...

The Murderbot Diaries: System Collapse -- Martha Wells Whoooo! Murderbot's back for book 7! It's comfort food. This one took a bit to settle into for me. It starts immediately after the events of book 5, which means it is most recent in the timeline, because book six backed up to take place between...

And now Biden has asked aides to prepare reprimands for violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, seeking options for "expeditious action" against those responsible for violence. So public pressure is working to some degree. He needs to appear to be standing up against the horrors going o...

That's a great move.

An immediate ceasefire. An end to all hostilities. And then provide endless millions of dollars so that the disaster relief/emergency management/humanitarian aid people can get in there and do their thing. Have non-Israeli, non-Palestinian human rights watchdog groups to help monitor everything. All...

Everything the Darkness Eats -- Eric LaRocca Nope. You don't get to name your bad guy Crowley, in a horror story about kidnapping God--a premise that is way better than the resulting book. Yeah, the villain is a creepy old man who sells cemetery plots for a living, lives in a creepy old rundown man...

Certain Dark Things -- Silvia Moreno-Garcia Fantastic! I had so much fun here. Humans discovered that vampires are real back in 1967, ans there are many varieties that have inspired various vampire legends around the world. Nowadays, laws have forces them out of many countries, but Mexico is one pl...

This video just hit my Tik Tok feed about 30 minutes ago. I watch John Oliver every Monday morning, but I hadn't seen this, so I assumed it was the show opening, which I never see. He only publishes his main story on YouTube, and I don't ever see the rest of the show, because I don't like watching p...

I've never tried to justify Hamas'a actions. I've condemned them in nearly every post, and I believe the leaders of Hamas need to be held to account for what they have done. But I don't have to argue that very strenuously, because there is no one I talk to who says otherwise But I also believe that ...

Jeez, that list is far too broad. I've been making a point of reading a bunch of commonly banned books that I've never read (or sometimes even heard of) before. It has been delightful and educational. But this is so much.

See, I knew I was overreaching, because all people need is one item they can point to as a suspected fabrication, and that's their excuse for ignoring all other facts on the table. No. Hamas are not liberators. Hamas are violent terrorists. But the fact that Hamas are bad actors doesn't end the conv...

The goal is to concentrate as many people as possible near at the south end of Gaza near the Rafah Border Crossing. Then they will open the gates and force a million or more Palestinians (all that have survived if possible) to "temporarily" move into tent cities in the Sinai Desert on the ...

New knowledge. According to Google's use of the Oxford English Dictionary, Checkup is a noun. I have to see my doctor for a checkup. Check up is a verb phrase. She needs to check up on my medications. Check-up is an adjective. I scheduled another check-up appointment with her for next May. That real...

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