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Reliving Your Life Over and Over Endlessly

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Reddit, or somewhere, told me that I had to read The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North. So I downloaded a copy to my Kindle. And it stayed there for a while. Somewhere along the way, I … Continue reading →

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A 1904 Odyssey

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

For over three months now, I’ve been reading Ulysses by James Joyce. I gave it four out of five stars. It could use a good editor. It’s a fascinating book, but there’s just too much of it. The first three … Continue reading →

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A Goodby That Was Pretty Long

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I once found Dashell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon in a used book store for a quarter. It was an old paperback, apparently printed to be distributed to soldiers during World War II. It was a thin book and I read it … Continue reading →

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Oatmeal Sleepover

Posted on June 16, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I want to talk about overnight oats. By eating oats every other day, I’ve lowered my cholesterol amazingly. And don’t get me started about the fiber! But once I got into the habit, I began using more and more ingredients, … Continue reading →

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My Darling Frankenstein

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

This was not the book that I’d thought it’d be 40 pages in, I was thinking that there’d been some error and I was reading the wrong book. There is no Dr Frankenstein, no monster, no big frights, no hordes … Continue reading →

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Bicycling Stuff

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I ride a bicycle for exercise, around residential streets and the loop around the park. The bike is nearly 20 years old. I paid $300 for it at a bike shop, and they did a pretty good job of setting … Continue reading →

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Magarita Master

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Amazon has been telling me to buy this book for ages, much as it did with Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Then I noticed folks on Reddit recomending it, although to be honest folks on Reddit end up recomending everything to … Continue reading →

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Cowboy Books

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

I was at my brothers one day, and his TV was on as always. It was John Wayne’s next-to-last movie ( I think) The Cowboys. There was the movie back in the 70s, and a brief TV show. Some of … Continue reading →

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Lincoln vs The Bardo

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Lyle Verbilion

Fancy, award-winning books can be very hit-or-miss. Sometimes they win the award for the wrong thing, like because the story is timely or the storytelling is stylized. Sometimes a book wins an award because another one didn’t, and somebody thought … Continue reading →

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What I Learned from 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Lyle Verbilion

Or at least, 3 movies that I watched in 2014. Honestly, this is all that I’ve got for the whole year. In Your Eyes was written by Joss Whedon in 1992, but filmed in 2014. He paid for it, but … Continue reading →

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