Thursday, November 05, 2026

Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder Deluxe Edition by Judd Winick and Joshua Middleton: Book Review







Shazam! / Captain Marvel Index

Comic Books
Movies

Playlist HERE: 

Victober Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag #victober (Better Late Than Never!)


The Victober Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt was created by Marissa ‪@BlatantlyBookish‬ 
The idea is we look on our shelves for books to fit the 10 prompts.

I was tagged by Jim  @jimsbooksreadingandstuff  

Tag Prompts 

1. Tome Topper: Find the most massive, thickest, heaviest Victorian book on your shelves. (It’s up to you if you want to go by page count or simply by how much space it takes up on your shelves). 


2. The Mourning Veil: Find a book bound in a dark, drab, somber color reminiscent of Victorian mourning attire (ideally something black, but gray, deep purple, or a very deep blue will suffice).

3. The Queen’s Cipher: Find a book where the first letter of the title begins with the letter V (for Victoria) or A (for Albert). Bonus points if the author's initials match.

4. The Madding Crowd: Find a cover showing a dense crowd, a busy street scene, or a group of three or more people.

5. The Illustrated Edition: Find a book containing interior illustrations, woodcuts, or decorative internal elements.

6. The East India Company:  Find a book that you acquired abroad, on vacation or when you weren't near home.

7. The Language of Flowers: Find a volume that features flowers, leaves, or botanical illustrations on the cover or spine.

8. The Penny Dreadful: Find either the cheapest looking and/or the most macabre looking book cover. 

9. The Dandy's Aesthetic: Find a book with gold lettering, ornate decorations, or a strikingly vibrant colored spine.

10. The Curiosity Shop: Find an item sitting on the bookshelves that is not a book (a crystal, a vintage trinket, a feather, or a unique bookmark).

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