Yesterday I published a post titled My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was basically half of my annual end-of-year posts on my Goodreads reading efforts for each year. It focused on my 2024 Reading Challenge (I surpassed my goal of 200 books by reading 408 last year.) but I still have to post the …
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Every year I write an end-of-year post about my annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and the report titled My Year in Books. I think I've been doing this since about 2012 or 2013. This year was the first time I didn't, even though I had participated as I have every year. And frankly it's been bugging the hell out …
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The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …
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Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Drew DanielMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A serious work about a serious work. Er, the book was impressively done on this still-controversial TG experiment that, like the band that influenced so many that came after. Many attribute the founding of the industrial rock movement to Throbbing Gristle …
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History and Genealogy of the Page Family From the Year 1257 to the Present: With Brief History and Genealogy of the Allied Families Nash and Peck by Charles Nash Page My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was incredibly disappointing and nearly a total waste of my time, though not entirely which I why I …
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