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Book #13: Duplex by Kathryn Davis. What a blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/dupl...
05.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Heading to 🇦🇺 next month. Does anyone have reataurant/bar/coffee/park/whatever recs for Sydney or Melbourne?
05.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Book #12 of 2026: Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather. Flop era.
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Book #11 of 2026: America, America by Greg Grandin. I liked this history of the New World a lot but I'm too lazy to copy the accented "a" again...
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Pastor of Muppets
We preach and we sing
Old men in the balcony still heckling
A frog reads the gospels
And chickens clucking
PASTOR
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Book posts get so little traction here but for those who are interested, here are my favorite reads of 2025 with little write-ups on my nearly 20-year-old blog.
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Book #10 of 2026: Indian Tales by Jamie de Angulo, an ethnographer who lived with several Indian tribes of early 20th c. California. An interesting mix of legend and modernist storytelling. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/indi...
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And here's @grnpointer.bsky.social's list. A great year for reading across the board!
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In February I read short books. This is everything I own <200 pages. Anyone ready any of these?
31.01.2026 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Book #9 of 2026: Ice Rivers by Jemma Wadham. An interesting non-fiction book about glaciers.
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Book #8 of 2026: The Names by N. Scott Momaday. One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century literature, RIP
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Book #7 of 2026: Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke. Second straight banger. Funny, weird, grotesque. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/lord...
26.01.2026 17:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Book #6 of 2026: The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck. Incredible. A BOTY contender for sure: fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
24.01.2026 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Book #4: Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaalluk. The first novel written in an Inuit language. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/sana...
21.01.2026 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Book #3 (actually #2) and #5 of 2026: The Removed and The Devil is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson. I was so impressed by The Removed I ordered a class set to teach next semester. Hobson's new novel is something much more strange and unsettling. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/two-...
17.01.2026 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1I've read 12 or 13 of hers and this one is definitely in the upper half
11.01.2026 20:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Book #2 of 2026: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich. At least I think I got the year right this time.
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My story "Ice Man" is up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social today. It's about mothers, memories, miracles, and why you shouldn't stow away in the landing gear of an airplane. Many thanks to BULL for publishing it:
11.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating to reread this NYT piece from ~3 months ago on how Maduro was willing to give Trump the oil and other economic goodies.
If so, I return to my basic question here: what was the point?
accidentally murdered a bunch of crows and now I can't figure out how to tell anyone about it
02.01.2026 20:47 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book #1 of 2025: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I am on track to read 365 books and 700,000 pages.
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Discovered today that the book blog @grnpointer.bsky.social and I started, 50 Books Project, predates Goodreads by nearly a year.
29.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Pleased to say my story "Touch Tank" is in the newest issue of @SmokeLong today. It's about getting married to a fish. www.smokelong.com/stories/touc...
15.12.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Whew, this archival clipping about Greg Bovino’s father
13.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 871 🔁 364 💬 38 📌 38Book #121 of 2025: Olav Audunsson: Crossroads by Sigrid Undset. The third book in a tetralogy that's (almost) as good as Kristin Lavransdatter.
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We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree.
Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
this is like a capsule summary of the problems with a singular focus on quantifiable data
12.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 148 🔁 26 💬 9 📌 9No but I think etiquette demands you defeat them in battle
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Book #120 of 2025: Ice Palace by Edna Ferber. Edna's "Alaska Novel" mostly fails to do what she did for Texas in Giant and Oklahoma in Cimarron.
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