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Profiles in hopping
Here’s a grasshopper hanging out near our front door, catching some sun and casting a sharp shadow. I believe it’s a Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis).
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Northern Lights by Anna Katarina Boberg
I just happened upon this incredible painting while perusing some comic book related blogs, specifically Sevasblog: things I like (which is not comics related, but which I found by clicking on one of the bloggers who followed a comics-blog I was checking out!). I was unfamiliar with this artist and am so pleased to have…
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Tartuffe by Moliere
Book jot from January 2022: I just finished reading Tartuffe (1664) by Moliere, translated by John Wood and David Coward. It is the first thing I’ve read by him. I’m used to reading theatrical tragedies and a comedy was refreshingly unexpected. The play revolves around a religious hypocrite and his manipulative influence over a man…
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Hercules Unbound!
I recently finished reading Hercules Unbound, a 12 issue series of comics published by DC from 1975 to 1977. This title started off very strong, with writing by Gerry Conway, pencils by José Luis García-López, and inks by Wally Wood. That is an incredible team! This was some of García-López’s first work with DC. He…
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A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
I recently finished reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) by Thomas Hardy. It was his third published book and one of many “Wessex” novels he wrote, Wessex being his imagined region of England. I have heard Hardy’s writing referred to as an acquired taste…I’m not sure if this is true, but I find his…
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Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter (Dragonlance Preludes #1)
I just finished reading Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter. It is a Dragonlance fantasy novel and the first in the Preludes series. These books are set in the five years before the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I loved the Chronicles as a kid and…
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Monarch caterpillar
On a walk around midday today, we came across a couple of monarch caterpillars eating milkweed.
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White Fang by Jack London
I just finished reading White Fang (1906), a novel by Jack London. The story of White Fang’s life begins in the northern territories of Canada during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. Born to Old One Eye, a wolf, and Kiche, a wolf-dog, White Fang’s world slowly expands from the cave of his birth to…