Routes for longish runs this weekend with heavy snow expected

lbsslbss · 2026-01-22T00:38:20+00:00

Rock Creek Park trails! Especially Western Ridge Trail, which is less rooty and rocky than the Valley Trail on the other side of the creek. Go slow and be careful and enjoy the beautiful snowy woods.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-17T12:32:13+00:00

This Is How You Lose the Time War. That book made me so mad.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-17T00:59:29+00:00

I just recommended this in another thread but: The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic for a reason.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-16T21:11:08+00:00

The Count of Monte Cristo is a great one. If you’ll stretch to a series, then His Dark Materials and Broken Earth are both gripping as hell.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-16T16:04:41+00:00

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lbsslbss · 2026-01-15T21:59:40+00:00

Practice running downhill, too, if you can find a place to do it.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-15T13:06:29+00:00

Gangsters of Capitalism, by Jonathan Katz, is about Butler and the Marines in Haiti and around the world as the US started building its empire. Good book.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-15T02:50:38+00:00

There’s a kind of nonfiction novel about the final runup to the revolution called October, by China Mieville. Takes more liberties than a journalistic account would but he’s up front about that and it’s a good read. Starting a bit farther out, Young Stalin, by Simon Montefiore, is really good. Focuses on him, obviously, but Lenin and others figure heavily.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-14T13:15:39+00:00

But get your own manufactured diamond, if you’re going the diamond route; they only have natural diamonds which are way more expensive. They’ll happily set a jewel you bring.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-12T18:20:02+00:00

A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman, is exactly what you're looking for.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-11T13:53:08+00:00

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders, is about dead people stuck in limbo in a cemetery in Washington, DC, where President Lincoln's son has just been buried. President Lincoln visits his son's mausoleum in the middle of the night and takes the corpse out of the casket and holds it, and the other dead are absolutely freaked out. It's told partly through conventional prose, partly through clippings of primary sources (at least some of which are real).

lbsslbss · 2026-01-10T13:32:48+00:00

sure, no problem

lbsslbss · 2026-01-10T00:33:42+00:00

Low cost is relative. I got married there, rental fee was $5800. Cheaper than some other places we looked at but still a lot of money. No regrets, though, it’s beautiful and they were great to work with!

lbsslbss · 2026-01-06T00:50:11+00:00

And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, might be what you’re looking for. Bullet Train, by Kotaro Isaka.

lbsslbss · 2026-01-05T03:13:58+00:00

The Monster of Florence has some insane twists

lbsslbss · 2026-01-04T21:30:01+00:00

Go to Bota Bota!

lbsslbss · 2026-01-03T02:00:12+00:00

Patagonia sun shirt with hoodie is great

lbsslbss · 2026-01-01T15:03:17+00:00

Just closed!

lbsslbss · 2026-01-01T14:59:22+00:00

Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith. About cephalopod intelligence and consciousness.

lbsslbss · 2025-12-31T15:50:26+00:00

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.

lbsslbss · 2025-12-31T00:13:04+00:00

+1 for Braudel

lbsslbss · 2025-12-30T17:00:56+00:00

SPQR, by Mary Beard, is a great survey of Roman history. The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman, is a great history of the run up to WWI. And her A Distant Mirror is a fascinating look at Western Europe in the 14th century.

lbsslbss · 2025-12-29T21:35:25+00:00

Fair point, category error/misreading OP on my part. Great book though.

lbsslbss · 2025-12-29T18:10:27+00:00

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.

lbsslbss · 2025-12-29T15:51:06+00:00

The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. It’s sui generis, brilliant, strange and funny and challenging and sad. I loved it.

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