2023 Reading List
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2023 Reading List

The Gods We Can Touch Aurora Aksnes Published: | Pages:104 Description: This full-colour reproduction of Aurora’s personal notebook also features all song lyrics from the album, as a beautifully presented cloth hardback with gold foiling. With original album artwork and stunning photography too, this book is a unique and immersive treasure trove for fans. ‘This is a little book I wrote, trying to figure out the soul of my album.’ - Aurora Aksnes Liner Quotes: Aurora Ketil Mosnes Published: 2018 | Pages:93 My Rating: 5/5A neat little book for those who are fans of Aurora, but its very light on…
The Mysteries – Bill Watterson and John Kascht
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The Mysteries – Bill Watterson and John Kascht

So, like many people within a pretty large range of my age, I was, and am, a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes. I am sure Peanuts and Garfield would try to make the claim, and there is a good argument to be made for The Far Side, but Calvin and Hobbes may be the best newspaper comic there ever was. And that's not really hyperbole. It perfectly road that line between, "appealing to younger folks" through Calvin's adventures with his imaginary friend Hobbes (a stuffed cat who comes to life for Calvin), and still appealing to adults, by using…
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Code Project – Goodreads RSS to HTML (Python)

I already have my Letterboxed watches set up to syndicate here, to this blog, for archival purposes mostly. When I log a movie in Letterboxed, a plug-in catches it from the RSS feed and makes a post. This is done using a plug-in called "RSS Importer" They aren't the prettiest posts, I may look into adjusting the formatting with some CSS, but they are there. I really want to do the same for my Goodreads reading. Goodreads lists all have an RSS feed, so reason would have it that I could simply, put that feed into RSS Importer and have…
Linear Quotes: Aurora
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Linear Quotes: Aurora

Linear Quotes: Aurora by Ketil Mosnes Just for establishment up front here, I am a big fan of the musician Aurora. If we're measuring by Last.fm scrobbles, which I like to do, she has very rapidly become my top scrobbled artist, of all time. But a pretty large margin. I saw this book posted by someone in a fan group on Facebook and it seemed like a pretty interesting, and probably less known bit of Aurora memorabilia, almost no one in the group was aware of it as far as I could tell. It's also tricky to find, I had…
2022 Reading List
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2022 Reading List

Mastering The Game: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Success In Life Jon Harrison Published: 2015 | Pages:294 My Rating: 3/5 Description: Mastering The Game: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Success In Life takes a look at how the same habits and principles that lead to success when playing video games can be applied to personal and business success. Principles are ideas that are truly timeless, and remain true independent of context, culture or time period. So what are the principles embedded in the most popular video games? Surprisingly, the list strongly resembles the most in demand…