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Reading Log #13 - #17
Reading Log #13, as of June 6, 2026 RoyalRoad Reads He Who Fights With Monsters, by Shirtaloon (Travis Deverell) 1001, 1002, 1003 Library Reads Nine Goblins, by T. Kingfisher (penname), well, chapters 1 -3 Elder Race, by Ian Tchaikovsky, first 160 pages Course Readings: De anima Book 2, ch 1-2, and parts of the Introduction Reading Log #14 , as of June 7, 2026 RoyalRoad Readings: Ten…
Reading Logs #10, 11 & 12
Log #10 (June 1) RoyalRoad reads:Ten Thousand Fleets Academy, by David Niemetz (author of Guild Mage Apprentice also on RoyalRoad), 1 Pinnacle Station. This is a straight SF space opera, reminiscent (to myself, at least) to Sekai no Senki a/k/a Banner of the Stars and Crest of the Stars,and a small departure from David’s previous work.Guild Mage – Apprentice, by David Niemetz, 347 A Full…
Reading Log #8 and #9
Reading Log #8 a of 5/30/26 TCDM Bk 2 ch 35 Data Security DOM 255 Merchant vs genius (1) ; 256 Merchant vs genius (2) ; 257 Merchant vs genius (3) Reading Log as of 5/31/26 DOM 258 Keep coming back ; 259 Grand aegis array ; 260 Wyvern riding; BOC v7c63 Majestic Return CDM 2, ch 36 Strategic Investment OHAI (Book 3) 138 Gilded Cages ; 139 Polite Society ; 140 Matters of Finance ; 141 Within…
Reading Log #7
A note on RoyalRoad titles and abbreviations. The first time I mention a RoyalRoad story I write out the name in full. For every subsequent reference I give an acrostic in capital letters. Thus, Beware of Chicken becomes BOC, To Walk a Moonlit Path becomes TWAMP. I do this purely for practical purposes -it saves time. DOR 34 “Networking”DOR 135 “Operation StapleBOC v7c62 “Once More, We Sally…
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Reading Log #6
RoyalRoad reads: TWAMP 51 “Walking Around Moon Gazing Peak”DOR 134 “Shake-Up”UC v13 60 “The Lesson, Part 2”CDM Book 2, ch 31 “Intake Process” ; ch 32 “Call Center” ; ch 33 “Security Review” Doomed Intellect Reads; more Aristotle, and translator introductions, and some St. Thomas Aquians. I may or may not get around to reading Sokolowski’s Introduction to Phenomenology until tomorrow, as my…
Reading Log #5
Today’s reading includes some chapters that I meant to add to a reading log for last night, but fell asleep before I could perform that action. Also, I am in the process of cleaning up my backlog of 15 draft posts which include piles and philes, some of which will become new categories of Pile. RoyalRoad reads: [last night] Of Hunters and Immortals by Shadowwing (penname) vol 3, “137 Biragawa”.…
Phile #6 The Great Adler's Greater Idea
As I presented in Phile #5 (which, now that I think about it, needs to be thoroughly revisited in terms of goals and life circumstances and what has actually been posted on this blog) this is my long-delayed first Wednesday summary of my 2017 reading progress. My goal for these summaries is terseness of style, but that is a goal, not a present reality. So please bear with me. I begin my…
Reading Log #4
RoyalRoad webfictions read: Center for Dungeon Management: Invasive Species Intervention (book 2 of the series, chapters 29 “Career Planning” and chapter 30, “Territory”. So, CDM follows the life and dungeon access management and crawling activities of Dorion Gray Carmino , a new inductee into dungeon management bureaucracy, American Style. This is a world where dungeons exist, and the government…
Reading Log #3
Tonight I engage in the ancient and worshipful act of Copypasta! From my Doomed Intellect Blog: Tonight, I am reading, or will have read, Aristotle, De Anima (On The Soul) Book 1, chapters 4 and 5, which constitutes the required reading for Week 5 of PHH 651 Aristotle under Dr Finely at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. If I have time, I will begin to read the requisite lectures from St.…
Reading Log #2
Today’s reading has been sparse and not very deep. This morning saw me turn to the first of the Hymns of Divine Love of St Simeon the New Theologian , about the place of the Spirit in the believer, and how only the Spirit leads us to God and heaven, I listened to portions of lectures for my Aristotle and Phenomenology courses, covering week 3 and the beginning of week 4 on last 2 ,chapters of Bk…
Introducing a Reading Log
It has been seven years since I last posted anything on this blog, and more than that since I posted any substantial reviews, or bring myself to post anything on any of my blogs whether substantial or trivial. These have been seven lonely, intellectually isolated years, silent years, years I am not proud of. An absence from which I can adduce very little about the state of my understanding, or…
Reading in the New Year.
The best way to get back on track with writing reviews is to actually finish reading the books to review. I have decided to keep a running weekly commentary on what I am currently reading in an effort to jumpstart this process.
I closed out 2018 with Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, preceded by Hunters of Dune and Sandworm…
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Pile #16 on "Sheba" by Nicholas Clapp
Pile #16 on “Sheba” by Nicholas Clapp
Sheba : through the desert in search of the legendary queen / Nicholas Clapp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001. viii, 372 p. ill. : maps, figures. Includes Bibliographic References and Index
It is always exciting to read tales that explore history and archaeology of biblical events. One thing to keep in mind however, is that rarely are such tales a cut-and-dried affirmation or rejection of…
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Six Books [Phile]
n.b. So I’m jumping the gun a bit about not posting anew until August. But this article is good stuff. It might also provide a new source of reading -and posting- material for this and other blogs. Thank you Paris Review!
This marvelous post “Six Books We Could and Should All Write” by Anthony Madrid, -via The Parish Review came my way the other day thanks to the magic of new tab algorithms…
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Meta-Phile #7 Journaling with the Mind in the Heart
Meta-Phile #7 Journaling with the Mind in the Heart
A New Year bring renewed commitments, renewed hopes, renewed ambitions, and in this case, a renewed blog with a new rationale for posting -that my reading may be entertaining, informing, and transforming. I plan to bring this about through the power of self-education. So without further ado, let me introduce you to:
The Education of a Reader or, The Wordy Nature of Michael’s Mind: Ruminations…
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Meta-Pile #6 Cleaning the Plate, 13 Weeks at a Time
Meta-Pile #5a Cleaning the Plate, 13 Weeks at a Time
Of late, I have found myself bogged down among a plethora of books from two separate libraries, as well as volumes from my personal collections, while simultaneously pulled in 5 or 6 directions intellectually speaking (on top of the rest of my life happenings). This has been the result of half-hearted intentions on my part to prepare for further graduate work in history, humanities, and…
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