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# <li value="4"> Leather backpacks such as this [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] one from St. Malo. It will replace my beloved briefcase. | # <li value="4"> Leather backpacks such as this [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] one from St. Malo. It will replace my beloved briefcase. | ||
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# <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany. Like Hay on Wye, this is a bookstore town. | # <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany. Like Hay on Wye, this is a bookstore town. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:25, 30 November 2025
See also Best Things of 2024 and Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023 and Best Articles 2021 and Top Ten Articles of 2025.
- The Deceiver, by Frederick Forsyth, author of the even better Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. I haven't yet come across a bad book of his.
- Weimar, a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! Frederick the Great: Crisis(7 Years War, 2020); Virgin Queen (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921(solitaire).
- French food-- cheap restaurants, fancy restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops,fishmongers, butchers. Reason enough for a trip to France.
- Leather backpacks such as this Marius one from St. Malo. It will replace my beloved briefcase.
- Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto your fingers.
- Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany. Like Hay on Wye, this is a bookstore town.
- Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham. How big-name evangelical organizations have been cleverly corrupted by leftwing money. It's shocking how easy this was.
- Africa: Biography of a Continent, John Reader (1998). From geology to prehistory to 2000 or so, with lots of science as well as history .
- Perfect Rigour, Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
- Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful cathedral, but it has historical connections to all periods.
- Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
- Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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- The Office
- The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
- https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ Classical and Koine Greek lexicon
- Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
- Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
- The New Board of Trustees
- Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
- French roadside "aires"
