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WBH Digest 2024-06-12: They Come Out at Night

WBH Digest 2024-06-12: They Come Out at Night

There have been a bunch of interesting books either released or looking to raise crowdfunding recently that I wish to highlight. Hopefully you can find something interesting out of all the authors I keep tabs on. I keep hearing that Shagduk is a book worth reading, and here is the

Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Dune: Part Two Movie Review

Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two movie adaption of the second half of Frank Herbert's Dune is very good. Verging on greatness. Villeneuve successfully captured key thematic elements of Dune in a way that is likely to resonate with audiences now. I say this for two simple

Bright movie mini-review

Bright movie mini-review

Will Smith's 2017 movie Bright was an early example of a big disparity between audience scores and professional reviewers, although in this case the audience only found it "okay", while often now the phenomenon produces outsized positive audience scores just to be contrary. I watched this

Follow up on the state of the book market

I was reading the DMR Books blog post REVIEW: Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs by John Taliaferro, and I stumbled on this gem. It is another fascinating data point on the state of the book market. Like many Americans, ERB had read the pulps, especially the bestselling

Encanto: Good but not Great

A movie review I read today helped me put my finger on why exactly I felt that Disney’s Encanto was good, but not great. First, John C. Wright’s review identified Encanto as an allegory. Let’s delve into that a bit. If you look up a definition of

Linkfest 2022-03-04: Peter the Aleut

A great Twitter thread from the author of the Grey Goose Chronicles Substack, on Russian Orthodox missions in Alaska. I thought the story of Saint Peter the Aleut was a bit out of character for the Franciscan missions in California, and sure enough down thread Stone Age Herbalist agrees with

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Movie Review

I took my wife out on a date night to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and I was entirely pleased with the movie. It honored the spirit of the original Ghostbusters [Amazon link], and since that is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, I liked this one too. It had