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November existed, evidently. And I continue to exist, admittedly more out of habit than hope.

Books read: 13

Top: The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman, Gravebooks by J. A. White (4.5/5 stars)

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December 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
October continued to up the ante on cruddiness across the board. With this buildup, I honestly dread 2025's upcoming finale months. But, hey, books are a thing...

Books Read: 11

Top Read: The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman (5/5 stars)

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November 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
September... was a month. Not liking what I see for the rest of the year, either. Hence, me hiding out in books.

Books read: 11

Top: A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (5/5 stars)

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September 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
Well, August sucked on most every conceivable level... at least I read a few decent things.

Books read: 7

Top: Daindreth's Assassin, by Elisabeth Wheatley (4.5/5 stars)

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August 31, 2025 at 4:38 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
July, and somehow things are even worse than in June. Gotta give 2025 credit for picking a theme and leaning into it hard...

Books read: 9

Top: Several 4-out-of-5-star reads, but no real standouts (see also: things are worse)...

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July 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.
July 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
June, halfway through a year that's all cloud and no silver lining. All the more incentive to hide out in books...

Books read: 8

Top: The Dying of the Light, by Derek Landy (4.5/5 stars)

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July 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
May was not an improvement on April.

Books read: 10

Top: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), Confessions of an Imaginary Friend (Michelle Cuevas), Last Stand of Dead Men & Armageddon Outta Here (Derek Landy) (4.5/5 stars)

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June 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
I'm so tired of too many things.
May 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
April will end with me finding out how long I have before my job relocates out from under me. Can 2025 just... stop for five seconds?

Books read: 11

Top: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (4.5/5 stars)

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April 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
March wasn't much of an improvement over February. If there's a future that isn't dystopian, I'm not seein' it.

Total books read: 11

Top: The Bakery Dragon, by Devin Elle Kurtz, and Kingdom of the Wicked, by Derek Landy (4.5/5 stars)

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March 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
Of all the unspoken assumptions we all thought held down civilization, but are finding out were just sugar plum dreams, one of the most subtly disturbing is that the rich folk in charge valued living luxuriously in a developed society over the simple pleasure of drinking the blood of the poor.
March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
If what I'm seeing around me these days is America, I no longer feel like an American... This one hits close to home, though if I had a feasible path out I'd seriously consider taking it. (Too poor, unskilled, and old to emigrate, unfortunately.)
johnpavlovitz.bsky.social John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · Mar 1
There are dozens, sometimes hundreds of moments in a given day when I look around and I simply don't recognize this place anymore. It all seems terrifyingly foreign. Maybe you understand what I’m talking about...

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The American Dream of Being an Expat
I confess that I'm a little lost presently.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
For a short month, February had more than its share of awful packed in, didn't it?

At least reading's still legal (for now)...

Total read: 9

Top: Death Bringer, by Derek Landy, and Ghostdrift, by Suzanne Palmer (4.5/5 stars)

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February 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
The Trump administration is just the Tulsa Massacre writ large.

A black man got elected/black Americans made some progress so the white folks next door have to burn the whole thing down to make it never have happened.
February 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
The word for this is "coup."
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · Feb 2
Musk's new department, which just seized control over payments as broad as USAID, defense, and social security, is presently livetweeting screenshots as they gleefully stop payments related to DEI, accessibility, and immigration. The account claims $1B in payments have already been cut off.
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
A day late, because the terrible month has been terrible in countless terrible ways, but here's the January book review update.

Total read: 9

Top: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, by Dan Gemeinhart (5/5 stars)

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February 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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authorsabb.bsky.social
President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them.

So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.
Today the DOE announced plans to dismiss 11 outstanding complaints against book bans, and to eliminate the position of Book Ban Coordinator at the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). This distortion of the intended work of the OCR--the protection of civil rights and students' freedoms in our nation's schools--is negligent, grossly un-American, and in direct conflict with freedom of speech, a bedrock right enshrined in the Constitution. Authors Against Book Bans unequivocally stands against all such attempts at censorship and discrimination. We stand with families, students and educators across the country who exercise free speech every time they open a book, and with the 71% of Americans who are opposed to book bans. Book bans do not protect children; history teaches us that they are a terrifying step toward tyranny.
January 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
tbweber.bsky.social
Just over a month after entering hospice, my father - retired drafter, lifelong SF fan, one-time winner of the 1960 fan Hugo as part of the Nameless Ones, all-around wonderful man - passed away peacefully at home.

This is a terrible day in a terrible month in a terrible year.
January 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
For the last couple of years, library workers have been begging and pleading for attention on this. If you think this won't happen in your community, guess what, it will. You *have* to get involved. Now. Don't wait until the ban is in place.
slj.com School Library Journal @slj.com · Jan 25
With a press release titled “U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax,” the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (DOE OCR) has dismissed all complaints of book banning that it had been investigating.
U.S. Dept. of Education Dismisses Book Ban Complaints, Rescinds Agreement in Civil Rights Violations in Forsyth County Book Removals
PEN America and EveryLibrary respond to the action taken by the Trump administration, which called the book bans
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January 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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New comic is up: Your New Order Has Arrived www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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January 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
Once more, lines blur between satire and reality. Pretty sure he'll try this, 50/50 odds he gets away with it if he does....
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 22
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
tbweber.bsky.social
1 month ago yesterday, we signed my elderly father up for home hospice.

In the past couple days, his decline has steepened.

Between this and treasonous Nazis torching everything remotely good & hopeful in my country, forgive me if my response to "stay calm" and "don't worry" is a literal scream.
January 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
If your political opposition are Nazis and the bipartisanship is only one-way, then all you’re doing is collaborating with Nazis. Shouldn’t be a bragging point! You worms.
January 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM