Incredibly so.

What is Bread and Jam for Hello, Frances!?

#9 Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children by Michael Newton. The very thought is mindboggling - children either abandoned to the wild or otherwise kept from all human contact in their formative years, but still survived. Kaspar Hauser probably the best known. Really fascinating.

Who is Bobtuse Dylan?

Montaigne, Erasmus, Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, and The Anatomy of Melancholy

And then #8, Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. A Christmas gift from my older teenage son, it was much more engaging than I thought it would be. Really interesting how language - not just English - is being changed by the way websites work and filter/promote/censor particular things.

#7 Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. Finally finished Morris's three-volume bio of Teddy. Just an absolutely fascinating guy, really progressive on some issues and really regressive on others, even in his time. Finished this the other day but forgot to add here.

Stevie Nicks?

Do you know what the time frame on those "total apprehensions" is? Because if that's in a year, all this is basically theater.

#6 Enshittitification by Cory Doctorow. Spot on, as usual, for Doctorow. I listened to an audiobook & would not necessarily recommend it. It is read by the author, & he sometimes comes across as smug when he doesn't really need to. I find reading footnotes during the narration to be off-putting.

Thanks for the reminder.