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Books Read in 2024

By Mary | by Mary

Happy New Year! I’m kicking off 2025 with a list of books I read in 2024. On April 7, 2024, I reported on this blog that I had read 11 books, including a binge of books by John Scalzi, after having a couple of light years of reading due to life circumstances. I typically average 20-25 books per year. So, how did I do over the course of the year? Well, I surpassed my usual…

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Olio: October 18, 2020

By Mary | by Mary

Olio: A miscellaneous collection of things (or, when I was trying to remember the definition of olio, what popped to mind was “random shit”). When I started this blog 6 years ago, I wanted a way to share miscellaneous stuff that I found interesting but with a heading I could use habitually, so I could find this stuff again. Hence, “olio.” My last olio post was in April 2016. Not sure how I lost track…

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