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I love this guy’s old-fashioned but not incorrect use of coöperate instead of cooperate.

I thought this was going to be mostly about Abu Ghraib, but it turns out that's only the first section and it goes into other ill-advised aspects f the war on terror. Emily, this is a great follow-up to The Looming Tower if you're interested.

So far I like the movie better.

This is terrible in the best way. It's truly if the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant were distilled into a book.

I like the movie a lot, so it's about time I knocked this out.

I figured there must be a new one soon, and I was right: this came out yesterday. I'll have it done after trivia tonight.

This is great so far but feels dangerous to have on my desk at work.

I'm glad for Mi-ran but I'm worried about the sister the family left behind.

Emily has been bothering me for a couple weeks to read this, and I was not expecting it to be so readable.

On and on about how important the chapel is to the spirit of the school, what a place it plays in their tradition, and all I can think of is Jacobs, the lone Jewish boy mentioned once as just wandering around the grounds when all this is going on.

I'm glad I finally got around to this one.

Having a lot of trouble picturing this church scene, which is too bad because it’s clearly meant to be a big deal emotionally.

Really glad I started this one. It seems likes it’s going to have a very specific storyline in common with Good Times/Bad Times, so let’s see if I’m right.

This year I’ve been really trying to knock out books that have been on my to-read for ages. I think I first learned of this one somewhere around 2019 or so, and I’m glad I’m finally getting around to it; it’s fun so far.

I get that the author’s thesis is about masculinity, not geopolitics, but I need him to understand that calling Afghanistan part of the Middle East is bad enough, but multiple references to it as part of the Arab world is going to destroy his credibility with a number of readers.