Thursday, November 05, 2026

The Brothers Grimm: Failed Attempt 1


There was an ungrammatical sentence in this that I didn't catch before.  It was right near the end "although some of the stories were told are very old".
So, I decided to fix the sentence, and re-record it.

Successful attempt HERE:


Suggested Use:
Step 1: Look at the vocabulary. Check any words that you don’t know in your dictionary.
Step 2: Listen to the video. (Listen only.  Don’t look at the reading yet).
Step  3: Practice the Vocabulary on Quizlet https://quizlet.com/_51osk1
Step 4: Watch the video again.  This time look at the reading. Read and listen at the same time.
Step 5: Practice the vocabulary again: https://quizlet.com/_51osk1
Step 6: Listen one last time.  The last time, don’t look at the reading.


Vocabulary:
able, add, adult, although, area, beauty, besides, born, collect, collection, complain, consider, country, countryside, creature, cruel, culture, dwarf, edition, educated, education, effort, elder, enjoy, entertain, exactly, exist, expensive, extra, European, eventually, fairy, fairy tale, final, finally, folk, folklore, follow, generation, German, Germanic, graduation, grow, history, hood, however, intend, invite, join, kingdom, land, law, library, literature, lost, magic, magical, mostly, neighbor, nowadays, ordinary, parent, poor, popular, prison, professor, program, project, public, publish, refer, represent, respect, retell, riding, robber, save, several, sick, snow, storyteller, storytelling, suitable, tale, television, themselves, thief, traditional, uneducated, unfortunately, unimportant, university, village, violent, whole, worried


Wednesday, November 04, 2026

Today's links

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel: Book Review




I finished the end of this video, and I still hadn't talked about half the stuff in my notes.  But I'm going to call it good here.  There's so much ridiculous stuff in this book that I couldn't possibly talk about everything anyway.

Links to stuff mentioned:

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

Monday, November 02, 2026

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: Book Review


Links to stuff mentioned:
From Reddit: My 1987 young readers' edition of H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine" has a chapter that doesn't exist in any other version of the novel: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/rxa5ms/my_1987_young_readers_edition_of_h_g_wells_the/

This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

Wow, this Anderson Cooper interview of Haley Stevens is an absolute disaster.  It's clear she is not cut out for this level of politics.  


Based on this second video (embedded in a tweet), it looks like Chuck Schumer is also responsible for this whole mess

Sunday, November 01, 2026

The Shazam Archives Volume 1 by C. C. Beck: Book Review









A new video by Shaun out.  I always tell myself I'm not going to watch the whole thing, and then I always do.  There is something so soothing about listening to him calmly demolish bigots with logic.  I wouldn't have the patience to do this myself, but I'm glad he does.  Somebody's got to do it.
Shazam / Captain Marvel: Introducing a New Reading Project




As mentioned in the video, this reading project has both a long term and a short term phase.  In the long term, I plan to continually gradually reading Captain Marvel comics indefinitely (interspersed with my other comic book reading projects).  In the short term, however, I have a specific stack of books on my shelves that I got from the library that I mean to finish off in the next few weeks.  This blog post will serve as my started post for that specific stack.

Superman / Shazam: First Thunder,
Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil,
The Power of Shazam: Book One: In the Beginning,
The Power of Shazam: Book Two: The Worm Turns,
The Trials of Shazam: The Complete Series

And also, on order from the library but not yet arrived,
Shazam! : a Celebration of 75 Years,
Shazam! : the New Beginning,
Shazam! Power of Hope