Category: books
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Camping and Hatchet are not a good mix
2 weekends ago, my wife and I decided to go camping. We’d been wanting to all summer, but hadn’t been able to make it work out so far. We decided mid day on Friday to go get a spot Saturday, and had a great time. While we were getting ready to go, I heard Griffin…
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The finale of the Animorphs TV show is buck wild (and bad)
It’s been a while since I finished my reread of the Animorphs book series, and just this week I finished watching through the TV show for the first time. I’d seen some of it back when it first aired back in the 90s, and even then I could tell that it just wasn’t good. Having…
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It – Ragnatalk, Gone, and Fallout 76
This week I’ve been way deep into ruined worlds. I’m not really sure why it turned out that all of these came up for me at the same time, but boy I’ve been having fun with media that looks at awful, broken societies. Chuck and Anthony: Ragnatalk This one is a bit of a stretch…
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Thermals: A tribute to pillowy cushions of warm air in The Animorphs
If you know what a thermal is, and especially if you think of them wistfully, there’s a good chance you read the Animorphs as a kid. There’s a lot of things in this series that left an impression on me, but the idea of pillowy cushions of warm air letting a kind, sweet-hearted red-tailed hawk…
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald sure is okay
I’ve been a huge Harry Potter fan since my dad ordered the first book for me just as it came out in the United States. I’m actually re-reading the book series right now, albeit slowly. Having said that, the first Fantastic Beasts movie didn’t totally thrill me. It was fine, it was fun, but it…
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