Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween!

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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

What I'm Reading Now -- Monsoon Seas

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S recommended Monsoon Seas: The Story of the Indian Ocean , by Alan Villiers, to me in furtherance of my reading about the world...
Friday, October 24, 2025

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. -- Take 2

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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. was a thoroughly enjoyable read.  Whenever I am surprised by how much I enj...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

What I Read -- The Prospector

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I don't know much about Mauritius. I'm certain it has some European colonial history, definitely French and possibly als...
Monday, October 20, 2025

What I'm Reading Now -- The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

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While simultaneously trying to catch up on my 2024 Reading Challenge with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , I'm hoping ...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

What I'm Reading Now -- Wolf Hall

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This is my second time through Wolf Hall .  Perhaps inexplicably, I am again listening to the audiobook. It was several years ag...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

What I'm Reading Now -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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You might recall how, for several years now, K and I have had an annual reading challenge. One ot the  books on my 2024 Reading ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

What I Read -- City of Buried Ghosts

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I picked up City of Buried Ghosts , by Chris Lloyd, in a hotel where S and I recently stayed.  It's a detective mystery, and...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

What I'm Reading Now -- Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

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I have no idea where this book came from; I just found it in my reading app on my phone one day.  Not having any other audioboo...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

A Brief History of Indonesia -- Take 2

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A Brief History of Indonesia:  Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation  is ex...