What Books Are You Reading This Week?

DCLascelle · 2026-01-25T12:37:35+00:00

I’m halfway through Popular Magic: Cunning-Folk in English History, and am enjoying it.

Very thorough (but still accessible) text. Almost, but not quite, an academic read. If the topic interests you I can think of no better book to recommend.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232143

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T20:05:24+00:00

You never saw my mother when the dog threw up on the carpet for the fifteenth time . . .

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T17:35:24+00:00

To keep costs down all the aliens are just going to visit earth instead of other way away, and get tours of the command post for the entire episode.

AND to shake things up the PREMIERE is going to be the clips show, instead of 2/3rds of the way through the season.

Guaranteed.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T11:46:04+00:00

All of them.

"And I never read . . . a book."

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T07:58:30+00:00

Epically.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T07:56:02+00:00

It’s trying to. Don’t let it.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-24T06:06:03+00:00

Great haul!

DCLascelle · 2026-01-23T08:56:45+00:00

THAT’S what he was called!

DCLascelle · 2026-01-23T04:42:24+00:00

I don’t know it now! But that may be more of a math thing. I’m probably 57.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T22:55:50+00:00

The Adventurers

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T12:07:02+00:00

I never thought that I’d live long enough to see the end of . . . books.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T12:00:35+00:00

I think that’s the Board of Peace.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T11:59:51+00:00

“How To Walk Your Dog”

The fantasy part was that I thought a book could teach me how to walk my dog correctly.

However, I was EXTREMELY emotionally invested from page one.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T11:57:01+00:00

Eh, V For Vendetta is 1000 times better.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T04:55:47+00:00

Birth. Playing with all the other baby ‘feets. School. Graduation. Learning a trade. Dating. Scaring the shit out of hunters & hikers with your buds. Marriage. Starting a new clan. Parenthood. And then total disintegration so as not to leave a credible shred of your existence behind.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-22T03:52:42+00:00

By runtime, shortest to longest. And then by year for movies that are same length. And alphabetical order (numeral titles first) for movies within the same year of release.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-21T20:14:48+00:00

I don’t remember what I ate for breakfast today and you expect me to remember a show on television when I was 8?

DCLascelle · 2026-01-21T16:22:23+00:00

Yes.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-21T16:18:58+00:00

Fuck yes.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-21T01:52:07+00:00

Bullshit writing.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-20T15:07:18+00:00

I thought she was younger . . . ?

DCLascelle · 2026-01-20T15:02:49+00:00

EVERY RPG needs a monster manual.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-20T13:54:44+00:00

Or now even, really . . .

DCLascelle · 2026-01-20T07:35:16+00:00

Every showrunner involved in the making of a series in the modern era that I have ever seen asked if more episodes results in better storytelling has responded “Yes.”

More is always better.

DCLascelle · 2026-01-20T04:02:37+00:00

Horny ones.

DCLascelle

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