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Monthly Archive December, 2023

Quick Review: Ziua Victoriei (Victory Day)

This is a collection of short stories with fantasy elements that generally take place during the current invasion of Ukraine. The one exception, in terms of setting, is the first one, which is still presented from the point of view of a Ukrainian, but takes place in an alternate, dystopian reality, where Russia seems to […]

Three Good Runs, Colectiv and an Annoying Reboot

On October 30, I got up when the alarm rang, at 2 PM, but it was hard to sleep after 9:30 AM. I saw 9:29 AM when I went to pee and heard workers shouting at each other, and while I initially managed to quickly get back to sleep, it was only 9:51 AM when […]

New Finds – LVI

This is quite certainly this year’s last post in this series, and it’s the 11th, so I won’t get to 2021’s record of 14, but I did also have one that included five bands, which was also the case in 2021. This one will just include three, and it’s once again rushed, which should unfortunately […]

Bucharest Marathon 2023 and the Following Run

Since I couldn’t get myself to write about the actual run in the previous personal post, I’m forcing myself to do so in this one by including the next run in it and writing that part first, so I will need to edit the post and complete this part as well over the coming days. […]

Quick Review: Deteriorare Garantata (Guaranteed Deterioration)

Note: There doesn’t seem to be an English edition, so I listed the Romanian title above and then translated it to English. The original French title is “Bon Pour La Casse: Les déraisons de l’obsolescence programmée”. The small size of this book makes it clear that it doesn’t go in depth, but it does a […]