Author: Chuck
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Literacy 2025: Book 19: Victorian Psycho
Virginia Feito’s excellent satirical novel about a governess working for a not terribly impressive family
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Two Things I Like About Poker Face Season 2
The second season of Poker Face is leaning more heavily into the comedy, but its willingness to experiment is its strength. Spoilers for the first 4 episodes.
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Literacy 2025: Book 18: Close to Death
Anthony Horowitz digs into the past cases of his detective partner Daniel Hawthorne
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Ask For It By Name
In honor of Poker Face, two tunes tangentially related by the fact that I can never remember their titles
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Two Great Tastes (One More Thing I Love About Final Destination: Bloodlines)
Bloodlines not only nails the Final Destination formula, but also manages to give it some weight. Lots of spoilers.
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One Thing I Love About Final Destination: Bloodlines
Most horror movies lose their spark when the characters start figuring out the rules. The 6th Final Destination movie makes it part of the fun.
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Literacy 2025: Book 17: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Volume One)
Emil Ferris’s masterpiece about a young werewolf growing up in 1960s Chicago
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One Thing I Like About Asteroid City
Even though I don’t get Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, I can still tell that Tilda Swinton did
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Everyone Knows The Water Is Warm Enough
Two barely tangentially-related tunes in honor of Wendy Melvoin
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Literacy 2025: Book 16: The Twisted Ones
T Kingfisher’s folk horror novel about a woman discovering the ancient things that live in the woods around her grandmother’s house
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Magic What We Do (Rewatching Sinners)
More thoughts about Sinners after a second viewing, including plenty of stuff I missed. Lots of spoilers.
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More Blue Prince, or, Home on the RNG
More thoughts about Blue Prince and my photo library full of clues that will never be used