Neamhspleachas
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The blog is a collection of all things I find interesting, ranging from politics to sex and whatever other shiny objects attract my attention. The title means “independent” in Gaelic. I’m Molly Rene, an American of Irish extraction currently living in the Netherlands. I’m a writer and editor who spends my free time listening to NPR while baking cookies and drinking beer.
Neamhspleachas
3w ago
Here is the round-up of everything that I read in October: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin |Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval†Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes Four Psychos by Kristy CunningSlow Bullets by Alastair ReynoldsThe Blighted Stars by Megan E. O’KeefeMake Me Sin by J.T. GeissingerLiars Like Us by ..read more
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1M ago
The leaves are changing color, the weather is finally cooling off and I have less than three months to go on my 2023 reading challenge. My aim for the year was to cut down on my physical TBR stack. That means both reading the physical books I had and, also, not buying more. With less ..read more
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1M ago
Talking to your ex and posting hot photos of yourself on IG is cheating now, apparently. This Daily Beast article about “microcheating” was making the rounds on Twitter last week. I spotted it with the remark “the straights are not okay.” The article doesn’t coin the term “microcheating.” The term predates this particular article. Forbes ..read more
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2M ago
A Man Kneeling and Placing a Laurel Branch Upon a Pile of Burning Books – Marco Dente – The Met I am in a perpetual state of trying to wrap things up. Two years ago, I tried to get my TBR shelf on Goodreads down to fewer than 50. It’s at 191 and it’s been ..read more
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2M ago
I said I would start this year by reading the books I got for my advent calendar last year. And I have finally finished. Actually, I finished ages ago but had other things going and forgot to write this post. I am slightly obsessed with advent calendars. For the past few years, I have gotten ..read more
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2M ago
Back in the heyday of blogs, it was A Thing to list the other blogs and websites that you read. Perhaps as a section in the sidebar. Perhaps as an entirely separate page. It could be a Top 8 of sorts for the blogging set. But mostly it was a useful resource for finding other ..read more
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3M ago
I saw Jack Edwards do a video on his favorite book titles, many of which were titles I also enjoyed. I am a big impulse book shopper and will grab books based on the title and/or cover alone. Frequently. It’s a problem. A few Edwards mentions as favs – Breast and Eggs, I Fear My ..read more
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3M ago
I couldn’t decide what to read so I made my husband pick. Typically, I finish a book and I just pick up another one. I don’t have much in the way of a plan about what to read. This year I’ve been trying to read down my physical TBR list. That is a sort of ..read more
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4M ago
I am staring down three weeks of travel with extremely limited suitcase space. Unlike on some of my other recent trips, I’m flying. So I can’t bring a huge stack of physical books. But I am still desperately trying to pare down the giant stack of unread books in my house. What’s a girl to ..read more
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4M ago
I always read a lot on vacation. It is, for me, the most significant part of a vacation. I read twelve in total, though I started two others that I’m still working on. I took ten books with me to Amsterdam but didn’t read two (one I didn’t start at all, the other I am ..read more