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Spellslinger is a typical fantasy hero journey story, well written and pretty fun. I liked and disliked in equal measure how Sebastien de Castell was edging the typical YA clueless but full of heart hero, alternating between making him...
Bees spend more of their short lives learning about the environment during orientation flights than they spend foraging. Why are these flights so important, when do they start, and are bees that have yet to take them really 'non-flying...
LUKE SKYWALKER — DARK EMPIRE STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) Heeeeeeeey, it’s Friday again! Right now, I’m all about keeping the Star Wars thing rolling, so let’s have a little more of that! Let’s delve back into the now...
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I’m taking a Danish exam next week, and it’s a big one, a culmination of years learning the language. My classmates are stressed. Despite how much we’ve learned, it feels like we’re always making little mistakes. We write the wrong...
My review of the urban fantasy novel Witch Queen Rising by Savannah Stephens. I read a paperback edition published in April 2026 by Berkley Books.
My favorite NPR show included my remix of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 in their most recent episode about hookworms! It’s under the end credits. This is something I posted to Bandcamp six years ago and forgot about, but you never know...
My film arrived today. I ordered 10 rolls of Tri-X because it was cheaper than HP5 and that was new to me. I also ordered 5 rolls of ColorPlus for some reason. Probably because it was only $8.99/roll ("only").Then, later, I learned that...
Since my review of Sven Beckert’s book on capitalism went live (and, truth be told, a few days before that), I’ve been engaged in a back and forth, sometimes bitchy, sometimes friendly, with various critics—of me, of Beckert, of...
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An odd one these, I got my first last autumn, and two more a few weeks ago, they seem to be bigger in the 'States, and might have recently been pulled here, by The Range (where I found all mine) or Zuru, or they're proving so popular...