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You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Let’s Talk About It

Posted on May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 by Paul Woodford

“Let’s Talk About It,” published in 2021, is in the crosshairs of book banners.

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Posted in Banned Books, Books, Personal, ReviewsTagged BannedBookReview, LetsTalkAboutIt, YCRT, YouCantReadThat1 Comment on You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Let’s Talk About It

The Persistence of (False) Memory (Updated)

Posted on April 28, 2023April 30, 2023 by Paul Woodford

I don’t know how you all feel about re-watching things on TV, but we do a lot of it.

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SA In the Shiggy

Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 by Paul Woodford

This morning I looked up shiggy in the Urban Dictionary. Turns out I was pretty close.

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Posted in Consumerism, Critters, Flying, Hash House Harriers, Local Color, Personal, Photoblogging, Products, Social Media, WordsTagged #BigSeikoLittleDick, MyLinguisticMission, SituationalAwareness, StrappingItOnLeave a Comment on SA In the Shiggy

Full Blast to … Crickets

Posted on April 22, 2023April 22, 2023 by Paul Woodford

The difference I speak of is the level of noise in our house, which has gone from Fast & Furious in Dolby Surround Sound to distant birds chirping in trees on the far side of an alpine meadow.

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You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: We Are the Ants

Posted on April 15, 2023April 15, 2023 by Paul Woodford

“We Are the Ants” came to my attention via a news item from Texas, where a parent is demanding it be removed from a high school library.

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Scam O’Clock High

Posted on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 by Paul Woodford

I can’t figure out the scam, but there must be money in it or they wouldn’t be doing it.

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A Touch of Red

Posted on April 1, 2023April 14, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Well, it was my mail-order bride now, to keep and to care for.

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Paul’s Book Reviews

Posted on March 26, 2023March 26, 2023 by Paul Woodford

Six short book reviews: fiction, espionage, thriller, nonfiction, science fiction, mystery

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