Started: Vision & The Scarlet Witch: The Saga Of Wanda And Vision

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Started: Lockjaw: Avengers Assemble 

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Starting: Avengers Epic Collection Volume 23: Fear the Reaper 

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Starting: Green Lantern: A Celebration of 75 Years

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Started: The History of Rome, Volume I: The Republic by Mike Duncan  (This book is the printed transcripts of the first part of Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast, which I listened to and reviewed in 2021.  But this is my first time reading them in written form.  Does this count as a reread then?)

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Started: Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan

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Starting: The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 18: 1957-1959

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Starting: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin    This is a reread.  I originally read it in high school.

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Started: The New Teen Titans Volume 10 by Marv Wolfman

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Started: Grayson Volume 1: Agents of Spyral 

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Started: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck     This is a reread.  Like most Americans, I originally read this book in high school.  (Actually the teacher read it aloud to us, so I guess I should say I listened to it.)  I've mentioned this book before on this blog here and here.

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Started: Countdown to Final Crisis Volume Two

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Started: Oldest Stories Podcast

For various reasons, I'm changing my system for podcasts.  Instead of listening to each podcast through 3 or 4 times, I'm going to try listening to each podcast only twice before reviewing it.

The reasons are as follows:

1) This will allow me to get through more podcasts.  In the past, I've not been able to review a lot of podcasts since it takes me forever to get all the way through them.  (For example, I've been stuck on Mike Duncan's body of work since 2020, instead of branching out to other podcasts.) 

2) I don't enjoy listening to podcasts 3 or 4 times through.  The first time through I love.  The second time through I like it.  But by the third time through, I'm beginning to get tired of it.

3) Related to the above point, I get less benefit from the 3rd and 4th listening.  I pick up a few things that I missed on the first and second listening, but by the 3rd listening, there are diminishing returns.

4) The idea behind listening to a podcast 3 or 4 times is to try to absorb everything.  (Sometimes when I listen to podcasts, my mind wanders and I miss stuff.  So I want to listen to it lots of times so by the end, I've absorbed everything.)  But I've noticed that often times, my mind will wander off at the same point in the podcast each time, even if I listen to it 3 times.  (There are some sections that I just have trouble absorbing, for whatever reason.)  

Now, this will mean that perhaps moving forward I'll have absorbed each podcast a little less thoroughly than if I had listened to it 3 or 4 times, so you'll have to count that in when you listen to my subsequent reviews, but I think I'm willing to take that trade-off.

I'll keep track of my progress down below.

1st Listening

June 25, 2025--Episode 12 – Anunnaki 3 Enlil Lord of Wind

June 27, 2025--Episode 16 – Lagash 2 Reform and Corruption in Lagash

June 28, 2025--OS 17 - Sargon Rising

June 29, 2025--OS 19 - Sargon at War

June 30--OS 20 Sargon, the Next Generation

July 1--OS 22 - Slanderous Legends of Naram-Sin

July 2--OS 23 - The Fall of Akkad

July 3--OS 24 - The Rebirth of Sumer

July 4--OS 27 - The Study of Sumer and Ancient Aliens

July 5--OS 28 - The Chamorros of Saipan

July 6--OS 29 - The Enuma Elish

July 7--OS 33 - A Time of Ritual and Law

July 8--OS 39 - The Merchants and Families of Assyria

July 9--OS 41 - Shamshi-Adad and the Upper Mesopotamian Empire

July 10--Bonus 1 - The Slaying of Illuyanka

July 11--OS 50 - Hammurabi's Code of Laws

July 12--OS 51 - The New Order

July 13--OS 52 - Theogony of Dunnu and the Education of Scribes

July 14--Bonus 3 - Lament for Ur

July 15--OS 61 - The Conqueror's Triumph and Death

July 16--OS 66 Enter the Arena

July 17--OS 70 - Mighty Monsters of Mitanni

July 18--OS 73 - Corruption in Nuzi

July 20--OS 74 - A New Dawn for Babylon

July 21--OS 77 - Idrimi's Adventure and Tudhaliya's Invasion

July 22--OS 82 - Suppiluliuma Irritates Egypt

July 23--OS 86 The Battle of Kadesh

July 24--OS 91 A Muddy Mesopotamian Mess

July 25--OS 95 Hattusili Secures His Legacy

July 26--OS 96 Fall of the Hittite Empire

July 28--Elamite 4 - Elamite Religion

July 29--Canaan 3 - The City of Ugarit

July 30--Canaan 8 - The Feast of Baal

July 31--Industry 2 - The Stuff of Life

August 1--An Overview of Bronze Age Mesopotamia

August 2--OS 98 - Nabu-Kudurri-Usur

August 3--OS 99 - The Legend of Nebuchadnezzar

August 4--OS 100 - The Babylonian Theodicy

August 5--OS 102 - A Bit More About Tiglath Pileser

August 6--OS 103 - The Babylonian Aristotle, Esagil-Kin-Apli

August 9--OS 105 Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad

August 11--OS 109 - Israel's Numbers Problem

August 12--OS 112 - Israel's Conquest and Integration in Canaan

August 13--OS 114 - Israel's Judges and Defeats

August 14--OS 115 - The Place of Faith in Biblical History

August 16--OS 117 - Israel's First King

August 18--OS 121 - Israel's Favorite King

August 19--OS 123 - Israel's Great High Priest

August 20--OS 125 - Israel's Divided Kingdoms

August 21--OS 127 - Isreal's First Historical King

August 22--OS 129 - Israelite and Phonecian Prosperity

August 23--OS 130 Israel Runs Out of Names

August 24--Oldest Stories is Now a Book!

August 25--OS 132 Judah Ascends

August 26--The Book of Job in a Near Eastern Context

August 27--Isaiah 55

August 28--OS 134 - Poverty Pessimism, and Comedy in Ancient Mesopotamia

August 29--OS 135 - Middle Class Demons of Mesopotamia

September 1--OS 136 - The Fifty Shades of Marduk

September 2--OS 137 - The Oldest Dreams

September 3--OS 139- An Iron King for an Iron Age

September 4--OS 141- the Unintended Aramization of Assyria

September 5--OS 143 - Assurnasirpal Has Too Much Energy

September 8--Bonus: The Early History of New Eastern Cavalry

September 9--OS 148 - Shalmaneser Takes the Throne

September 10--OS 150 - The Battle of Qarqar

September 11--OS 152 - The Smothered Spark of Babylon's Dark Age

September 12--OS 154 - The Assyrian Civil War: Magnate Edition

Starting: Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition) by Jana J. Echevarria, MaryEllen J. Vogt, Deborah J. Short

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Starting: Complete Spanish Step-By-Step by Barbara Bregstein [Premium Second Edition]

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* quizlet

Update: I found a playlist which is useful for supplemental audio.  That playlist is HERE.

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Started: Essential Vietnamese Grammar by Tri C. Tran

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Quizlet Folder HERE

* Chapter 1

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FYI: One of my reading projects for the summer is to finish off the Bone series.  Because these books are so short, I've decided I'm not going to make individual Started posts for them, at least not for the remaining books in the series. 

Starting: The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 17: 1956-1957

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Started: The New Teen Titans Volume Nine by Marv Wolfman and George Perez

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Started: Bone: Tall Tales by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski

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