Luther M. Siler

I write books. This is my Tumblr.  I don't know what Tumblr is.

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Read these four books Look, man, I'm tired. Just do what I say and don't worry about it....

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The begging campaign begins: Dear Lego You should really, really send me a review copy of the Sagrada Família set....

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Choose your own excuse Nothing to say tonight, despite claiming yesterday that I wanted to get caught up on book reviews....

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#REVIEW: Girl Dinner, by Olivie Blake I'm going to try to catch up on book reviews I should have already written this week....

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In which I am trained Because bitching about teacher training never gets old...

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Monthly Reads: May 2026 What I'm learning, looking at this, is that I should have written more book reviews this month.

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Unread Shelf: May 31, 2026

Yeah, yeah, yeah, shelves, whatever. The good news is I’ve cleared out everything I bought in 2025! Let’s pretend that’s an achievement.

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#REVIEW: From the Depths, by Emily Renk Hawthorne

I take no pleasure in this. I was sent this book by Emily Renk Hawthorne’s publicist for a review– not only was I sent this book, but also the first book in the series, in a nice hardcover edition, and when I cracked this open to read it I discovered she’d actually sent me a copy with a signed bookplate in it, which genuinely makes me feel bad about how I’m going to review the book. I’m going to…

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How does this happen

That absurdly tall, gloriously-haired kid on the right there— who is the same kid as this kid— graduated from 8th grade today. Which means that he is somehow a high school student now. Sooner than you might think, as he’s taking summer school classes right away and they start in a bit over a week. That fat bastard on the left is going to be fifty in a month. He is somehow still alive. I am…

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And another one gone

That’s twenty-two years, I think? Twenty-three? Who the hell knows. One of the things that happened at the event we went to last night was recognition of three retiring faculty members, and in fact there was a reception immediately afterward for them that we did not attend. The three had been teaching for, respectively, 29 years, 36 years, and a staggering 42 years, all at the same school. If I…

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Door number 3

I had two different possible plans for tonight’s post, and I’m putting both of them away for the time being– one of them because, well, it’s a book review and because of a family event tonight I haven’t finished the book yet (and, to be honest, I may need to ruminate on this one for a minute before writing it anyway) and the second because there is another related family event in a couple of days…

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Wheel of Time fans can't be real

Come on, guys. It’s okay. It’s your old pal Luther, here. You can admit it. This is all one giant, decades-long piss-take, right? I finished Book Eight of this nonsense last night, nearly seven hundred pages in which absolutely nothing happens until the last twenty pages and then not much happens in the climax. I am going to finish this series this year, powered by pure spite and nothing else,…

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Second verse, same as the first

Today has been more or less identical to yesterday, except with an hour or so of school stuff thrown in, the last hour of school stuff I’ll have to do on my own time for 2025-26. Thursday is my last day at work, and Friday is the last day of the school year– yes, I’m missing the last day of school for the first time in my career (forgive me if I’ve mentioned this; I don’t think I have, but who…

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Still quiet

Not a lot going on around here on this second day of my three-day weekend. Spent some time reading, put together part of a Lego set, finally started Pragmata after having it on my PS5 for weeks without touching it. I’m … an hour and a half in, maybe? Having a good time with it, but it’s way too early for any kind of review other than this is obviously going to be the biggest Dad Game I’ve played…

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Uggg

Kinda feel like butt again tonight— I’m not sure what my problem has been with Saturdays lately, but it has been a theme— and I’m just gonna lay in bed for the rest of the night, I think. Go stare at my new glasses from yesterday. I think I might hate them.

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New face, with ladder

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You tell me

How old do I look? Because, okay, I do have a Birthday of Significance coming up, in just barely over a month. I’m not entirely ready for it, to be honest. It has a good chance to be a pretty rough day. But do you know what shit happened to me today? I went to the grocery after work today, with my wife, because of course there had to be a witness along for this bullshit, to buy Many Snacks for…

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