Decided to not worry about Libby, because it's tied up in that nonsense licensing where they're only allowed to distribute one digital copy at a time.

(October 7, 2025 at 1:27 pm)Paraselene Wrote:

(October 7, 2025 at 5:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Finished The Fellowship of the Ring, moving on to The Two Towers.

Like Christopher Lee, I re-read LOTR once a year. I don't know if Lee did this, but I always start on 22 September.

Boru

I met a woman a long time ago who did the same thing while I was reading it for the first time. She reread it every year. I've tried rereading it, I've got the physical copies in a drawer, but I've never been able to follow through.

Yeah, it’s popular, it’s just not for everyone. Kind of like Stephen King in that sense. I’ve only ever made it through one of his books.

Boru

Reading Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, currently on the chapter "The Road to Isengard".

Also just picked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_Th...t_Handbook

(October 9, 2025 at 7:56 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Reading Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, currently on the chapter "The Road to Isengard".

Also just picked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_Th...t_Handbook

I've always found Saruman to be a prime example of FAFO.

Boru

I haven't done Audible books most of this year. Amazon has a budget pair of decent JBL headphones on sale, and I had plenty of Amazon credit, so I ordered a pair, thinking I'd see if headphones and errands could become a regular habit. I've got plenty of books on Audible that I certainly don't need any. However, Chirp has bundles of nonfiction books on sale right now. The sale ends in a few days, so I've got time to ponder their offerings.

I've been reading the new comic book by R. Crumb, and at his old age he's been going off the deep end.

Case in point:



Some pages don't even have drawings but are just his manifestos of how government agencies are working against him & us. How people still naively believe in doctors and medical science while they're trying to kill us and make big bucks selling us phony medications.

He's afraid he'll get cancelled and face "career destruction" if he speaks his opinion, like on vaccines:



But I won't cancel you. I still like you even if you quote Joe Rogan's podcast and believe in nonsense. As an artist, he's giving us himself: "This is who I am now. This is my brain after the age of 80, after my wife of many years has died, after many LSD trips, Catholic schools, and whatnot."