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Monthly Book Post, January 2018

It's been ten years since I began posting monthly quotes and commentary to keep track of the books I've been reading, and seven years since I began a project involving great works through history.In...

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Monthly Bookpost, February 2018

Two free science advancements:  The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles DarwinIn the cases where we can trace the extinction of a species through man, either wholly or in one limited district, we know...

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Monthly Book Post, March 2018

She's So Vine: Zahrah the Windseeker, by Nnedi Okorafor-MbachuTo many, to be dada meant you were born with strange powers. That you could walk into a room and a mysterious wind would knock things over...

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Monthly Bookpost, April 2018

Defense Against the Dork Arts: Crash Override, by Zoe QuinnI'm a game designer for a reason.  Games are, at their core, just systems, and systems are the terms in which I think. Unfortunately, I'm not...

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Monthly Book Post, May 2018

The Spirit Within: A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge"Listen to me," said Mother. "The dead are like drowners. They are flailing in darkness, trying to grab whatever they can. They may not mean...

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Monthly Book Post, June 2018

Huck Finn of the Thames: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman"Alexander knew what he must do. Very bravely he went to the authorities and told them about his family and the pagans they were sheltering,...

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Monthly Book Post, July 2018

American Black Utopia: Fire on the Mountain, by Terry BissonLincoln was a Whig, backed by US capital, who had organized a fifth column of Southern whites to support an invasion of Nova Africa in 1870,...

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Monthly Book Post, August 2018

The Victorian Murders: No Bottom, by James D. Brewer; Seven Dials; Long Spoon Lane; Buckingham Palace Gardens, by Anne Perry; The Detective Wore Silk Drawers, by Peter Lovesey; Circus Train Conspiracy,...

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Monthly Bookpost, September 2018

Learning is Good: Essays on Science and Education, by Thomas Henry Huxley How often have we not been told that the study of physical science is incompetent to confer culture; that it touches none of...

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Monthly Book Post, October 2018

Workers of the World Unite, and all that: Capital, by Karl MarxIn the United States of North America every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the...

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Monthly Bookpost, November 2018

Jewel In the Crown: Pax Britannica, by James MorrisElgar collaborated with Kipling in several songs and a cantata called "The Fringes of the Fleet", and for all his Catholicism he seemed to stand for...

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Monthly Book post, December 2018

Irish Stew: The Irish R.M. & The Real Charlotte, by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (Violet Martin)Major Sinclair Yeates left his regiment and England "equipped" as we have elsewhere said) "with a...

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Monthly Book Post, January 2019

Another year, another historical period to concentrate on, this time roughly from the late 1880s through WWI.  The literature of Shaw, Henry James, John Dos Pasos, Willa Cather and Joseph Conrad. The...

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Monthly BookPost, February 2019

Bitter, bitter dregs:  the complete short stories of Mark TwainNo brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense. When a brute inflicts pain he does it innocently; it...

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From the Kos Songbook: Candidates!

TUNE:  Stephen Sondheim, “Company”  (original song here: xxYouTube VideoBeto...Beto...Beto baby...Bernie bubbiBiden. Warren pollingKlobuchar is trying to call you(Beto) (Booker)Gillibrand has something...

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Monthly Bookpost, March 2019

Fear and Loathing in Russia: The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor DostoevskyAt seven o'clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow“Away with the past. I've done with the old world for ever, and...

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Monthly Book Post, April 2019

The Edwardian Murders: Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, by Boris Akunin; Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks, by Oakley Hall; Seeing a Large Cat, by Elizabeth Peters I thought his stories...

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Monthly Book Post, May 2019

World Salad: Space Opera, by Catherynne M. ValenteFor a while, Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros loved nothing more than showing off. Give them the soggiest cast-off thigh-high stocking's worth of a...

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Monthly Bookpost, June 2019

They Hate You And They Vote: Dying of Whiteness, by Jonathan Metzl"Going back to the people that are poor," the electronics man interjected, "they go buy the potato chips and eat the junk food with...

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MONTHLY BOOK POST, JULY 2019

 Terrorists in America: The Man They Wanted Me To Be (Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making), by Jared Yates SextonThough [the murder of Heather Heyer] and increasing disapproval of the...

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