Here’s an easy trick for telling a journalist’s bias.

When the journalist is (at least vaguely) in favor of the politician, then the politician “declined” to answer the question; when the journalist is against the politician, then the politician “refused.”

I am slowly cataloguing all my books via LibraryThing. Here’s what formally joined the collection this week.

• Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. trans. Rex Warner. New York: Penguin (1972).
• Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Folio Society (2008).
• Mark Keane, ed. The Oxford Book of Upper-Voice Polyphony: A Collection of Sixteenth-Century Motets in Two to Six Parts. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021).
• Benedict Sheehan, David Armstrong, and Paul Kappanadze, eds. A Common Book of Church Hymns: Great Vespers. South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press (2024).
• C. S. Forester. Hornblower and the “Hotspur”. Boston: Back Bay Books (1990).
• François-Xavier Fauvelle. The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. trans. Troy Tice. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2018).

Total works catalogued: 221.

I am slowly cataloguing all my books via LibraryThing. Here’s what formally joined the collection this week.

• Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications (2004).
• Mark Twain. The Complete Short Stories and Famous Essays of Mark Twain. New York: P. F. Collier & Son (1928).
• Morgan Eckroth. Coffee, for Here: The Ultimate Handbook for At-Home Coffee Enthusiasts. Photographs by Eric Medsker. Illustrations by Elizabeth Chai. New York: Clarkson Potter (2026).
• Ursula K. Le Guin. Catwings. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
• Ursula K. Le Guin. Catwings Return. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
• Ursula K. Le Guin. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).
• Ursula K. Le Guin. Jane on Her Own. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2023).

Total works catalogued: 215.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

I am slowly cataloguing all my books via LibraryThing. Here’s what formally joined the collection this week.

• Andrew Lang, ed. The Blue Fairy Book. Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk. London: The Folio Society (2003).
• Tadashi Ono and Harris Salat. Japanese Soul Cooking: Ramen, Tonkatsu, Tempura, and More from the Streets and Kitchens of Tokyo and Beyond. Photographs by Todd Coleman. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press (2013).
• Sergei Hackel. Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova, 1891–1945. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (1982).
• Jeff Romanczuk. Everyone’s Autistic: A Memoir on the Spectrum. Denver, CO: Outskirts Press (2015).
• Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments. Illustrated by Dinara Mirtalipova. San Francisco: Chronicle Books (2021).
• Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales. Nelson Doubleday.
• Susanna Clarke. The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City. Illustrated by Victoria Sawdon. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2026).
• Alan Jacobs. Dorothy L. Sayers: Works and Days. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026).
• William Faulkner. A Fable. New York: Signet Classics (1968).
• William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. New York: Dell (1962).
• John Gribbin. History of Western Science, 1543–2001. London: The Folio Society (2006).
• Della Thompson, ed. Oxford Russian Minidictionary. Revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2002).

Total works catalogued: 208.