Author: Chuck
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It’s Tough to Be Replaced
A post in praise of one of the best theme park productions Disney’s ever made
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One Thing I Like About Black Sunday
An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror
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Falling into Booktube
Rediscovering the intersection of art and commerce and my own overly-romanticized images of being an author
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Literacy 2025: Book 7: How to Solve Your Own Murder
A solid cozy murder mystery by Kristen Perrin about a paranoid elderly woman who provided all the clues to solve her own murder
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I am a functional adult who totally understood Moxyland
A spoiler-filled dive back into Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, to reassure myself that I got it
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One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
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Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
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I Was Wrong About the New Reeder
Silvio Rizzi’s redesign of his excellent RSS reader into a unified hub for the internet makes RSS feel relevant again
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The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it
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Literacy 2025: Book 5: Starter Villain
John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains