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Ryan_in_Oregon
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New England born, veteran, hiker, angler, adult onset hunter. Books, coffee, cured meats & music. Homicide, missing person and cold cases. SSE / forensics. Just another ghost walking the hills.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This book is incredible. The first chapter was about as dark as detective fiction gets, and this chapter had me laughing so hard I got a stitch in my side so bad I had to stop reading.
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Glitter Dome. This cooks
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Well, things escalated fast in Germania then
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Next read and it’s off to a hell of a start
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I would very much like to thank @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social for the “Crimes of the Century” reading list. More on the way.
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Another theme that is loud and clear in Bede is that everyone better be using the right calendar, and calculating the date of Easter the same. I’m 180 pages in, and there have been several England-wide and international disputes on this.
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Bishop Chad again.

“This was in the 720s, before SSRIs” / RFK jr voice
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This passage is just unintentionally hilarious in modern usage “… and Chad”
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is the cost of war. Don’t look away.
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My current reading has me switching between these three, and the tonal shifts are abrupt
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Diving in
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The sweatshirt in question
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Next up in my winter with the Anglo-Saxons
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Goethe, “Faust”
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies and hypothesis, can’t define these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery, flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me, Battle-scarred Shogun, explosion when my pen hits tremendous
Ultra-violet shine blind forensics
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The Phoenix, Anonymous, 10th Century England
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This middle-earth, the world for men
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM