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Benito’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Benito’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Benito M. Vergara Jr.
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The Lost Expedition: Session Report and Review
The Lost Expedition A game by Peer Sylvester Osprey Games BGG listing. Note: The most cursory of historical research went into the writing of this fictionalized session report on the card game The Lost Expedition. My dearest Slimane, I cannot conceive of a place so different from Geneva and my beloved Algiers than the province […]
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Displaying Filipinos: Photography and Colonialism in Early 20th Century Philippines
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Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
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I think I’m currently a little over halfway through Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. The number of pages aren’t a good guideline though. How can one be “halfway through” a seemingly endless hallway? How does one write about House of Leaves, a bo ...more |
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| Tove Ditlevsen's The Copenhagen Trilogy (4) is a tough one to pin down, much less write about. The trilogy, published in the ‘70s, is comprised of three memoirs: Childhood (set mostly in the early ‘40s), Youth, and Dependency. The Danish title for th ...more | |
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| Kim Stanley Robinson's [i]Green Earth[/i] is not the cli-fi thriller that the blurb on the cover would lead you to believe. The combination of three separately published novels, edited "down" to just a little over 1050 pages, is a trilogy in a genre ...more | |
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| Munro has now been "canceled," for reasons far more complex than, say, Neil Gaiman has, but I had started this collection of stories already, so I kept reading... I'll start with the “negatives” first, which is that after you read one story after ano ...more | |
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| Moore is brilliant as always but this is easily the darkest and most disturbing of his stuff that I’ve read. (Granted, my copy of Lost Girls is still in shrink.) Plot-wise it’s vaguely similar to Nic Pizzolatto’s first season of True Detective—a seri ...more | |
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| Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! (3.5) has a lot of buzz right now, and what I thought was going to be another acerbic satire featuring a pill-popping alcoholic—I actually rather like that “genre”—turned out to be an unexpectedly poignant novel about intergener ...more | |
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| LaRocca’s story collection is in a different sphere of transgression altogether. A good chunk of so-called “extreme horror” is merely bad prose plus splatter, and I consider it a waste of my time. This collection however is more self-consciously “lit ...more | |
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| I realized I'd read almost all the stories before. I can't see myself ever doing a deep dive on Blackwood the same way I've done with Lovecraft. It's one thing to encounter Lovecraft's hallucinatory purple prose; it's another to have to wade through ...more | |
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| Finally dipping into horror manga after decades. This one was a little too out of control for me, with way too many ideas crammed into one volume. I guess I’m not a fan when people “develop special powers,” but it’s satisfying body horror nonetheless ...more | |
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| I rather like her short fiction, and to see Moshfegh's electric talent stretched across the length of a novel is something of a highwire act. It's pitiless and bleak and outrageous and queasily funny. ...more | |
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