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Jan 28Liked by Graham Seibert

After reading your blog, I've checked many referenced books. Many challenges then arrive but it's helpful to expand my viewpoints. Time always is a limiting factor but even at 80+ I remain curious about how people think.

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At 80+ what do we have? By my arithmetic, recently presented here, a one in two hundred chance of seeing another twenty years. We have our descendants. and what's left of our culture.

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Jan 23Liked by Graham Seibert

Thank you. This is helpful. I recall finding a couple of your reviews when perusing books to buy. Will examine this in depth and tell you which ones I came across.

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Thanks.

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Jan 23Liked by Graham Seibert

Love the cartoon. I confess that I haven't read any of your reviews. I enjoy your postings on Substack and read them regularly, so I can't really explain why I ignore your reviews.

Perhaps you might tell us a little about them? Are they long? Are they mainly reviews of non-fiction books? Are the books you reviewed popular and well known? Good reading? Do you have any criteria for deciding whether to review a book, or not? Why would you bother reviewing a dud?

Are they written in your enjoyable raconteur style? Are they pedantic? Why do you show us so many reviews? Why did you write them at all?

It seems to me that it might be interesting to learn the answers to the above questions? It could take a column or two. And it could lead to a number of us reading your better reviews. Give it some thought.

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They are mostly of non-fiction. Climate, Covid, AIDS, technology. Evolution is a major focus. This video on human evolution sums it up. The books are my source for what I present.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LTpFUY5Gw8&t=1544s

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