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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 30, 2025 07:42 PM)
I was actually planning to rewatch An American Tail soon based on the poster being featured in the new season of Stranger Things lol. I remember loving A Wrinkle in Time as a kid! I read some of L'Engle's nonfiction a bit over a year ago.
How is the It show? I figure I'll binge it once the season wraps up.
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IsraHell — 4 months ago(November 30, 2025 07:56 PM)
So far, I'm loving it. In the moment, I'd say the first episode takes a little while to get going, but the first vilume overall looks like it mught be better than last season. That could just be recency bias.
I remember having more positive views of the Star Wars sequels when I saw them in the theater, but souring on then later on after the excitement died down.
I doubt that'll be the case here, but who knows.
Be careful. Spoilers are hard to avoid.
I think I read Wrinkle of Time as a kid, but it's been so long. Definitely want a refresher.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 04, 2025 03:42 AM)
Finished my re-read of
The Thief of Always
, which remains my favorite Clive Barker book. It's a mystery why Hollywood hasn't seen fit to give us a film version.
Now reading this, about an obscure historical trend I'm completely unaware of.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 13, 2025 03:59 AM)
Just finished this one:
Larson is, as always, a tremendous writer. Primarily taking place in 1933 and '34, the book focuses on US ambassador William Dodd and his daughter Martha and offers a fascinating glimpse at the growing power of Nazism and how a status quo approach was ineffective in dealing with it. Very pertinent!
Now starting:
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 14, 2025 01:10 AM)
Snowed in here, so I've already finished
The Intruder
. It was an entertaining enough thriller, although it relies a bit too heavily on improbable coincidences. I'm not sure it belongs on all of the year-end lists I've seen it on, but I'm definitely open to reading more of her work the next time I'm looking for something in that vein.
Now beginning another one by Erik Larson
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merry christmas — 3 months ago(December 14, 2025 01:37 AM)
War of the Copper Kings. It's about copper mining in Montana and Anaconda Copper. It begins with a seemingly mostly unrelated chapter about a Henry Plummer and his gang who have somehow never had their story turned into a movie.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 14, 2025 01:44 AM)
Interesting! I've read quite a bit on the coal mining history in Appalachia, but not much on the copper mines out west. I've had the book
Big Trouble
by J. Anthony Lukas on my reading list for years, which is apparently about the assassination of a governor of Idaho where the Western Federation of Miners was implicated. Only reason I haven't gotten around to it is the damn thing is nearly 900 pages long
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merry christmas — 3 months ago(December 15, 2025 04:47 PM)
I just looked it up, J. Anthony Lukas killed himself before finishing the book. His agent said he was dissatisfied with the book, but it almost won a Pulitzer. There's so much labor history in the United States that is mostly forgotten now.
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sheetsadam1 — 3 months ago(December 23, 2025 06:50 PM)
Finished
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
. It's ok, basically a travel book about cemeteries on four continents. Worth reading for those with an interest in the topic or fans of Enríquez's fiction. Her fiction is much better though.
Up next, of course I had to read this one when I learned of it And it's actually getting decent reviews as well.
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sheetsadam1 — 2 months ago(January 22, 2026 07:42 PM)
So this comes out in September… by one of my favorite crime novelists! Apparently there's a series where some big-name crime writers are tackling Marvel characters. There's already a Jessica Jones one and a Daredevil coming out in March.
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It was a major motion picture in 1947, all due respect to del Toro.