This is the mfoil blog, where I write my thoughts down about military-related books and thoughts I read/have. I also write at the sfoil blog.
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This is a page I set up to write down my thoughts about the books I read, which are mostly science fiction. I do have a military background and read quite a bit of nonfiction regarding military matters, but if I ever feel the need to discuss it I’ll probably start another blog. Generally I’ve had trouble finding places to even state my thoughts about, much less discuss, what I read, so I figured I’d start putting what I think out there. The blog format has fallen out of favor over the years, but I find the social media that supplanted it to be both too ephemeral and too personal. I generally avoid reading new fiction; most of it is terrible, and while I have some respect for those who trawl the polluted ocean of freshly-published works for the odd edible catch, I lack the inclination even when I have the time. If this habit makes me a “dinosaur”, all the better to use the stodgy if not quite yet old-fashioned blog format.