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My Most Recent Posts From Around The Web

• Ranking Author Joe Abercrombie’s Best Books (A Bibliography Countdown)
  Source: Book ScrollingPublished on 2019-04-18
• Ranking All Of Director Carlos Reygadas’s Movies
  Source: Cinema DailiesPublished on 2019-04-18
• The Best Books About Or Featuring Unicorns
  Source: Book ScrollingPublished on 2019-04-17
• The Best Mockumentaries Of All-Time
  Source: Cinema DailiesPublished on 2019-04-17
• The Best Books About Unions And The Labor Movement
  Source: Book ScrollingPublished on 2019-04-16
• Ranking All Of Director Chantal Akerman’s Movies
  Source: Cinema DailiesPublished on 2019-04-16
• The Best Books From And About The Victorian Era
  Source: Book ScrollingPublished on 2019-04-15
• The Best Occult Movies Ever

Book Scrolling

I’m a sucker for “Best Of” lists. It can be anything, movies, tv, podcasts, restaurants, people, and honestly anything & everything you could possibly rank. As I’ve detailed other places, books have taken over my life in recent years (I think it will be a life-long addiction), so I’ve gravitated more and more towards book lists.

Late in 2015 I discovered the audiobook / ebook renting website Overdrive and started searching online for books I wanted to borrow from my local library. I like reading (or listening) to the best, so I started making “best of” book lists about subjects … Continue Reading

The Books I’ve Finished: January – June 2016

The last four years I’ve made a personal goal to finish an average of a book a week (52 books a year). I’ve accomplished that goal, if only just barely, every year, nearly doubling that number in 2015. I decided to not set a goal for 2016 and just finish books at whatever pace I finish them. I have several Neal Stephenson and Doris Kearns Goodwin books on my shelf that I want to read, so not putting a time constraint on myself seemed like a good idea.

Well, five months into the year with no target and I’ve already … Continue Reading

The Burden of Nectarine Rejection