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I have selected the first batch of what I call my “front porch” reads. I usually try to spend an hour or so every day in the spring, summer, & fall (weather permitting) with a book & a beverage or two. Baseball, mining history, memoir, biography, & translated poetry. Good stuff.

Looking forward to some late nights since this arrived today. @univnebpress.bsky.social never disappoints.

Every book I’ve read by @rboomhower.bsky.social has been excellent. This one is sure to continue this level of praise.

Truer words

Outstanding, Ray! I look forward to reading this.

My lawyer will hear of this, IHOP!

Spent some time on the trails this morning with my eldest daughter. It was great to connect with her, nature, and my own thoughts for a few hours.

New Edition of ‘Redwall’ Celebrates 40 Years of Brian Jacques’s Classic buff.ly/mEJDr9z

This is a great article, and it's also an excuse to share the very similar path I took back to baseball cards www.sbnation.com/2015/5/26/84...

Read world-widely 🌎📚🚀

Either I'm getting better at finding them or there are a LOT more reviews of #SFinTranslation now than even a year ago (I suspect it's the latter): www.sfintranslation.com?p=17353

Science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, weird, in translation from around the world 🤖👾👽👻📚🌍🌎🌏 www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=45... www.uwp.co.uk/book/specula... sfintranslation.com #SFinTranslation

This week on the DTP podcast, award-winning biographer Megan Marshall talked to Kate about how she helps readers see the world through her subjects' eyes, how she structured her books, and her recent turn to essays. www.draftingthepast.com/megan-marsha... 🗃️ #booksky @biographersintl.bsky.social

I love it when people think they’d be able to legitimately ball with a player like Buechler. Guys like Buechler are closer to name-your-favorite-player’s skill set than we are to his. I love the idea of dropping more names!

Kerry Wood, Behind-The-Back Eephus 😮

Dang near perfect card

Helluva card

I have about 12,000 of these…

This book is breaking me. Incredible in its narrative design and language.

I’m excited to finally get to Shann Ray’s novel WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY. This book has patiently waited on my shelf for me. Everything I’ve read about it suggests that it is going to be a superb read. Published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

Thank you @sophieklahr.bsky.social for your words and images. This collection of poems invites the reader to be part of a journey that neither begins nor ends and just is as the miles of road pass by. Truly beautiful. Published by @univnebpress.bsky.social.

Hiking in out mini-Montana, the Hautes Alpes. @gwoltjer.bsky.social

I’m learning a lot about myself while reading this memoir. At some point, I may share these revelations…

The garden provided

This book looks so freaking fantastic

#booksky #books 6553 The Wrong Box / Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (Pan 1966) fiendish/farcical entertainment movie tie-in edition as the late-Victorian potential beneficiaries of a tontine compete to finish each other off and increase their share of the pot. The movie's unwatchable

Absolutely incredible photographs collected herein. And what an enjoyable read this was.

@every-topps-card.bsky.social I need a Jeff Ballard pack!

@every-topps-card.bsky.social pack!

@every-topps-card.bsky.social I need a pack

Koufax pack!

@every-topps-card.bsky.social I need a Duane Ward pack

@1988toppspodcast.bsky.social you might consider doing an episode on Duane Ward.

My day has started off quite well. Sometimes you just gotta spoil yourself.

"I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music." Hunter S. Thompson, born on this day in 1937

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream." Iris Murdoch, born on this day in 1919

I have dozens of this card. For some reason I really liked this card.

Some of my favorite street art in my community.

Awesome night for Shakespeare in the Park!

This episode hit me in the nostalgic feels. I remember when playing sandlot games I would call out “I’m Walt Weiss!” as other players called out the names of more popular players. I can’t remember why I had such an affinity for him, but this episode validates my 8 yr old player choices. 😂

Up next: this offering from @timlebbon.bsky.social…

“…the universe forms in carnivores.” Dang, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social!

You lunkhead!

Every pheasant runs like it's frantically saying "shit shit shit" to itself.

I'm not saying Microsoft and Sony are colluding to do away with physical discs. I have no evidence of that. I'm just saying, from my entirely outside perspective, this whole thing smacks of collusion.

It's the 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 of our campaign! Support so far has been wonderful. With an incredible slate of authors inspired by some truly terrifying photographs this antho is going to be unforgettable. But we need a few more supporters to make it happen! Can you help? www.kickstarter.com/projects/902...

Prescient

Tolkien nerd