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Gentle reader, I have done it: I have read all the Ben Wolf books I already own before I go to Davenport, Iowa, for the cybersecurity convention where he has had a booth for the last couple of years (2024 and 2025). I have previously read: The Ghost Mine The Ghost Pact The Ghost Plague […]
I’m counting this book, which I picked up in Davenport, Iowa, in 2024, as my first book read for 2026 even though I finished it on December 30, 2025. As I mentioned, I flip that particular calendar sometime the week after Christmas, and these days, finishing a book right before the turning of the year […]
Well, this book (which I just bought in October) is kind of a Christmas book. I mean, it stars Santa Claus, and he’s trying to save Christmas, so…. Okay, here’s the deal: Santa Claus’ marriage is in trouble because he looked at a Victoria’s Secret catalog a couple of decades ago. On Christmas Eve, as […]
I picked this book up after reading The Turquoise Lament because I have a twee goal of reading all of the Ben Wolf books I own if not this year then before I find myself in Davenport, Iowa, again. When I read his Tech Ghost series, most recently The Ghost Pact and The Ghost Plague, […]
I bought these books in Iowa in October (I read the first of the series, The Ghost Mine, last year). And I said of the first: I had been reading a book about text games for a while when I started this book, so I perhaps too easily compared the first part of the book […]
I bought this book in Davenport, Iowa, last month, and the author signed it for me. He was the only author at a cybersecurity convention, and his table took the whole end of the single cul-de-sac of the vendor area. He has a lot of books available, including three in this series, and several other […]
Ah, gentle reader, I just bought this book from the author at Rublecon, where “just” in this sentence means July 2024. So I have owned it longer than the Ben Wolf books, and I finished the Ben Wolf accumulated over two different trips to Davenport, Iowa, first. But that might be because of my experiences […]
Of all the sets of authors’ books which I would complete in 2025, the smart money would be on the Ben Wolf books I bought in 2024 and 2025 especially as I have stated my goal to read them in case I am again in Davenport, Iowa, in October. But it turns out I have […]
Unlike The Last Christmas Show, this is a Christmas novel, one I bought in September 2024 to spread among my stacks so when the season rolled around I would be able to find a Christmas novel to read as is my wont. This short book (181 pages, but the print surface of them is small) […]
So I stumbled upon a YouTube video called Why Isn’t China Collapsing? (spoiler alert: the video does not actually offer an answer), and the podcaster vtuber Mr. Beast meets Zeihan knockoff host, erm, hosts an “expert” on China (I put quotation marks on it because I’m not sure anyone is an expert on anything these […]
Wow. I bought this little paperback eleven years ago. I don’t even remember the church where the garage sale was held–it’s probably turned over a couple times since then as it’s a large space on the end of a building with a Subway and fusion Chinese restaurant in it. I’m not sure if it’s a […]
Well, this weekend I took the tour of state capitals, driving through three but really visiting none, on the way to CornCon in Davenport, Iowa, and then a quick stop in the Milwaukee area to drop in in family too briefly. As I did last year, I stopped by the Source book shop on 3rd […]
As I mentioned, I was in Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend. As it happened, the Source Book Store was only a block and a half from our hotel (and a block from the conference center), so I stopped in there. It’s 5000 square feet of books across several floors in an old building. The proprietor, […]
As is my wont, I am cutting off my “annual reading” in this, the week after Christmas, and am starting anew the count. I won’t pick up anything too long this week since the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge starts in January. But I am picking out books and stacking them up for that time period, […]
So, to sum up, here is what I have read this year: The Making of the Old Testament edited by Enid B. Mellor All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Death in Dittmer James R. Wilder Blood Relatives Ed McBain Treasure in Hell’s Canyon Bill Gulick Karate-dō Nyūmon Gichin Funakoshi Generation B Music […]