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Back. Again. Blogging about the books of 2018.

So, I just spent the last hour or so archiving a bunch of old posts. I’m sort of feeling like a cleaner slate this time around. Though, I’m already second-guessing myself and might put some of the old reviews back up. I always think you need context and history. We’ll see.

In 2011, I read 75 books and I blogged reviews about most of them. I wrote about my feelings reading them and what I…

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Us, waiting for Thanksgiving dinner.

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

President Theodore Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star, May 1918

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British folk-rocker Frank Turner announces a new documentary titled 'Get Better', playing in theaters with a live performance and Q&A.

British folk-rocker Frank Turner has just announced a new documentary titled Get Better which will premiere in London and local theaters on December 13th, including a live solo set and Q&A. Watch the trailer now at State-Lines.com!

June, 1999: Harry Potter trio graduates from Hogwarts. September 4, 1998: Google is founded. September 5, 1998: Hermione Granger kills herself after spending 7 years of doing nonstop research in library books for her friends.

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