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Ian M. Rogers
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Reflections on a Decade of Day Job Blogging
Image from the National Library of Wales used under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.
Time brings great changes.
When I started keeping this blog nearly a decade ago, I was at a very different point in my life—I was just out of grad school, trying to get my first novel published, and struggling with the very real conflict of how to both live a creative life and bring in enough money to live on.
At
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| A middle-school boy without any body hair who has to help out a girl with too much body hair is about as clear a pitch as you can get for a story this outwardly bizarre. As someone who absolutely loved Oshimi's Flowers of Evil, I found many of the sa ...more | |
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| Reading Black Beauty today, as someone who's distinctly NOT a horse person, certainly taught me about cruel practices toward horses in the 19th century (as the book was greatly effective in so doing in its time). Structurally, the novel is narrated f ...more | |
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| Prison, mental illness, loneliness, and poverty make for a dark combination, and Anthony Caplan captures this darkness movingly without ever resorting to cliche, condescension, or upper-class savior syndrome. Sid Green's story is a powerful one that ...more | |
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| Told in short, bite-sized (pun-intended), and relatively disconnected chapters, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is an important book in terms of both local interest (I live about 45 minutes from Grafton, NH) and the national conversation about libert ...more | |
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A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears):
"If this book hadn't been about one of the towns adjacent to where I live, I don't think I would have bothered to finish it. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling attempts to wind two strands of narrative around one another and make connections between them as if "
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| Little Town Blues is a unique work of fiction that pushes boundaries in genre, plot, structure, and even book design (I loved the illustrations throughout!). While overall resembling a police procedural following small NH town police chief Mike Melan ...more | |
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| A memoir about not fitting in combined with the expat experience in Japan and the experience of hafu Japanese, I enjoyed this book for the same reason I enjoy all of Christine Marie's work: its honesty, playfulness, and thoughtful insights that also ...more | |
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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| In a Nutshell: Dalio's fundamental principles about history and economical cycles are profound, interesting, relevant, and useful. Economic history doesn't get enough attention, so it's great to see Dalio discussing it here with present-day applicati ...more | |
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