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Tim Null is 33% done with Cover Her Face

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:07:22 -0700

Tim Null is 68% done with Dance for the Dead

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:47:02 -0700

Here we go!

Tim Null is 46% done with Smilla's Sense of Snow

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:06:03 -0700

Gonna set this book aside for awhile so my brain cells can regroup, and I can listen to Mark Sandman sing his song titled Patience.

Tim Null is 32% done with To Make Men Free

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:37:46 -0700

"Lincoln's policy of helping every man work his way up had been jettisoned by his own party after only twelve years." (p. 152)

Tim Null is 10% done with To Make Men Free

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:49:16 -0700

"By 1859,... Republicans like Lincoln were ready to adopt the idea that the government should actively promote individual economic advancement." (p. 40)

Tim Null is 4% done with Smilla's Sense of Snow

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:57:46 -0700

Quote: "We all have our phobias, " I say.

Ah-ha! The crux of the matter revealed on page 23.

Tim Null is 33% done with Vanishing Act

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:33:06 -0700

Tim Null is 33% done with Vanishing Act

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:33:06 -0700

Tim Null is 3% done with To Make Men Free

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:03:29 -0700

This gonna take a while. So far, I've read the introduction three times. I didn't reread it because I didn't understand it. I reread it because I wanted to savor it.

Tim Null is 11% done with The Man Who Sold America

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:31:41 -0700

Tim Null is 42% done with Why We're Polarized

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:30:45 -0700

Tim Null is 25% done with Why We're Polarized

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:05:11 -0700

"Demythologizing our past is necessary if we are to clearly understand our present." (p. 23)

Tim Null is 50% done with The Outsider

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:24:13 -0700

Holly Gibney showed up on page 284. Halfway to page 560.

Tim Null is 14% done with Autocracy, Inc.

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:04:45 -0800

"..., almost no one spoke about the political impact on Western democracies. Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead."

Tim Null is 17% done with Offshore

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:01:25 -0800

"...Elon Musk is a billionaire only because of the massive taxpayer-funded subsidies he has received." -Brooke Harrington in Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the new Colonialism

Tim Null is 43% done with The Sirens' Call

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:47:36 -0800

"This is the story of Donald Trump's life: wanting recognition, instead getting attention, and then becoming addicted to attention itself, because he can't quite understand the difference,..." (p. 112)

Tim Null is 48% done with The Sentence

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:05:44 -0800

Quote from page 178:
'What to do?'
'The opposite of whatever orangey does,' said Pollux.

Tim Null is 44% done with Wandering Stars

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:18:37 -0800

Tim Null is 35% done with The System

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:07:09 -0800

Oligarchy has come to America.

Tim Null is 18% done with White Tears/Brown Scars

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:24:19 -0800

The intro is full of provocative and true statements; e.g., "...I am not disparaging sex work but highlighting the negative perception of sex work and even sex itself as a hallmark feature of Western society..."

Tim Null is 20% done with The Nation That Never Was

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:14:30 -0800

Rather than being the heirs of the founders, we're the descendents of the slaves and the abolitionists.

Tim Null is on page 20 of 256 of The Nation That Never Was

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:12:28 -0800

Rather than being the heirs of the founders, we're the descendents of the slaves and the abolitionists.

Tim Null is 41% done with Colored Television

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 13:37:53 -0800

Oddly relevant to a day and age when a large portion of the population fears that the nation may actually become a melting pot.

Tim Null is 24% done with Colored Television

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:59:01 -0800

It took this long for something to happen in the story that I cared about.

Tim Null is 4% done with Stories

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:20:25 -0800

Gawd, the first story was gawd awful!
I'm old. Life is short. I'm out of here.
Goodbye, Doris, goodbye.

Tim Null is 64% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:09:38 -0800

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale!" 🐋

Tim Null is 42% done with A Manual for Cleaning Wom

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:46:50 -0800

I suspect this collection of short stories will be the standard by which I measure all others, because so far I've liked them all. Here's an assortment of stories to give you a taste: 'Her First Detox', 'Emergency Room Notebook, 1977', 'Carpe Diem', 'Electric Car, El Paso' and 'Sex Appeal'.

Tim Null is 15% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:57:09 -0800

"[Captain Bildad, a Quaker and native of Nantucket,] had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another."

Tim Null is 11% done with James

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:33:29 -0800

Chapter 3 reminded me of a Joni Mitchell song.

Tim Null is 35% done with Tyranny of the Minority

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:18:15 -0800

Chapter 4 reminded me why I hate Reagan so much, and I'm not the kind of person who hates people easily.