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Get In, Losers, We’re Going to Moorish Spain
So, we’ll talk more about this later, but I just wanted to let you know that Louis L’Amour’s The Walking Drum is on sale for Kindle until midnight tonight, and I’d like to…
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My True Crime Spree (Books! We’re talking about books)
Look, when I set a goal of reading 52 books this year, I sincerely meant to read mostly meaty, intellectual, improving books. My Kindle is full of books on nearly every science, history,…
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: Excellent Historizzzz…
You know how sometimes you’re kinda sad when finishing a book, because despite having approximately 4,568,892,626,942 other books you need to read, none of them will be quite like this book? Yeah, I…
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Pirate Women: Badass Buccaneers Since the Dawn of Piracy
Why shouldn’t women be singing “A pirate’s life for me!” right alongside the men? Laura Sook Duncombe’s exquisite Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled The Seven Seas certainly proves that…
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A is For Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie is Deadly Good Fun
I’ve been a Dame Agatha Christie fan for very many decades now. She wasn’t my fave when I was young – I was a misogynistic jackass and thought she was a pale imitation…
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Me and White Supremacy: “This is Truth Work”
We’re reading Layla F. Saad’s Me and White Supremacy. Today, we’re covering the rest of Part I: Who is this work for?, What you will need to do this work, How to use…
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Prairie Fires: Kicking Nostalgia in the Tender Bits
My earliest bookstore memory is of going to the mall (remember when malls had bookstores? Good times) and leaving with two books. One was the first Garfield collection. The other was Little House…
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Me and White Supremacy: “We Must Call a Thing a Thing”
We’re reading Layla F. Saad’s Me and White Supremacy. Today, we’re covering Part I: What is white supremacy? If we’re going to combat a thing, we need to know what that thing…
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Me and White Supremacy: “Welcome to the Work”
We’re reading Layla F. Saad’s Me and White Supremacy. Today, we’re covering Part I: Welcome to the Work and A Little about Me. You’ve decided to make a difference, to not just be…
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Quackery: A Book That Will Leave You Writhing
I bought Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything on a whim. It was on sale, and I loves me some sneering at snake oil. I figured it would…