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title: "Oops, forgot to write"
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date: 2020-10-15
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description: ""
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I haven't written anything for like a week (2 weeks? A month? Who knows
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anymore) because I got myself all busy with _reading_. I feel it a noble
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enough sacrifice. Today, however, I have a bit of a headache, and writing
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offers a lot more flexibility as far as thinking and letting your eyes wander.
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Also, apparently I busted by website-generator thing around the time of my last
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post, so several pages were screwed-up for a bit, but they should be good now!
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Anyway, what better to write about than the crap I've been reading. I thought
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about making these all affiliate links (not through Amazon though, god), but
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**1.** It takes work to work sign up and **B.** It
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just ain't that serious. Maybe some day. Anyhow:
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## Books
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### The Witches Are Coming - Lindy West
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A good "cultural critique" without any academic stuffiness. Or anything even
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remotely resembling stuffiness. It has a very modern writing style -- West is
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obviously a scholar of the internet -- and it's pretty hilarious for it.
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### Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
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The amusing stories of a TV writer. A light, fun read. Though there was one
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joke about an old African schoolmate that wasn't _great_. C'mon, Mindy,
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you're funny without that.
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### Tomatoland - Barry Estabrook
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A jaunt down the capitalist hell-hole that tomato farming apparently is (more
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than everything else). I appreciate that it didn't pull too many punches.
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Occasionally a smidge sympathetic to some that don't deserve it, but still left
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me wanting to switch to a farmers' market.
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### The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
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Interesting concept. Reminded me a lot of Hitchhiker's Guide, but with less
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whimsy.
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I don't know. Theoretically, I like Vonnegut, but the treatment of
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women in this is... not good.
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### The Princess Bride - William Goldman
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Having only seen the wonderful movie adaptation, it's weird to read the book
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now. It's great, but -- blasphemy -- I don't think it has much of anything over
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the movie.
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### Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
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A young Nigerian woman's journey to America, and the accompanying shattered
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illusions about the land of the free. Not much I can say here that hasn't
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already been said, but it tells a good story with absolutely terrific prose.
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### Almost Perfect - W.E. Pete Peterson
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A brief history of a now-defunct word-processor. It chronicles the story of a
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business built from scratch by a bunch of whiteys, and the author with his
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ridiculous name is a self-professed Glenn Beck fan these days (grimace emoji).
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That said, if you're an awful, awful, nerd like me, and amused by that
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old-school computer scene (these guys made millions before GUIs were things
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people had) then it might be interesting.
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That's all for now. Join me next week, when I'll be ranking the 10 cheap-o
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Donna Andrews murder-mysteries I've read.
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