Best Things of 2025
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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 (1991), 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); 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. Sufficient reason in itself for a trip to France.
- Leather backpacks such as the ones made by Marius for sale in St. Malo. A briefcase replacement.
- 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 (2024). 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, 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 one, 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. The simple nettle soup was the best.
- Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
--- Also rans.
- 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.
- Sleeping in airplanes sitting up.
- French roadside "aires".
