Bryce Moore
@brycemoore.bsky.social
Author and librarian, extraordinaire
Some weeks are crazier than others. This week? It's been a bit of a doozy, 7 hours of Zoom meetings today, and then I should be kind of sort of done with it? brycemoore.com/blog/its-bee...
It’s Been a Week
Sorry there hasn’t been much coming out of me in terms of posts this week. It’s been . . . a pretty long week. It started off with a minor crisis over the weekend that culminated in a f…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some weeks are crazier than others. This week? It's been a bit of a doozy, 7 hours of Zoom meetings today, and then I should be kind of sort of done with it? brycemoore.com/blog/its-bee...
A quick report on my trip to Boston to watch the BYU/UConn game. brycemoore.com/blog/adventu...
Adventures in Boston
BYU was going to play basketball against UConn over the weekend at TD Garden (the same place the Celtics play). UConn’s a perennially good basketball team, and this year is supposed to be a g…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A quick report on my trip to Boston to watch the BYU/UConn game. brycemoore.com/blog/adventu...
If you're not watching Physical: Asia, and you like competition shows or sports, I think you're really missing out. brycemoore.com/blog/another...
Another Plug for Physical 100
Two and a half years ago, I wrote a review for Physical 100, a South Korean game show where they pit 100 different athletes against each other in a quest to “find the perfect body.” Tha…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you're not watching Physical: Asia, and you like competition shows or sports, I think you're really missing out. brycemoore.com/blog/another...
A practical way AI saved me $250+ this week. brycemoore.com/blog/fightin...
Fighting Back against United
A few weeks ago, I scheduled a one way ticket from Salt Lake to Portland that was going to connect through Newark. Pretty straightforward. Nothing really noteworthy. Except then I got a brief email…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A practical way AI saved me $250+ this week. brycemoore.com/blog/fightin...
Don't forget to vote! brycemoore.com/blog/how-im-...
How I’m Voting Today
Hard to believe it’s only been a year since the last election (it feels more like 5), but here we are again. Today’s vote in my neck of the woods in Maine is much more limited: only two…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Don't forget to vote! brycemoore.com/blog/how-im-...
Haunted Mansion (2023) was no Pirates of the Caribbean, but it was entertaining and had some 10+ friendly scares, which was just what I was looking for. brycemoore.com/blog/movie-r...
Movie Review: The Haunted Mansion (2023)
Daniela was gone for the evening on Monday, so Denisa and I were looking for something to watch with Michaela. She’s been branching out into things that are a bit more intense (emphasis on &#…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Haunted Mansion (2023) was no Pirates of the Caribbean, but it was entertaining and had some 10+ friendly scares, which was just what I was looking for. brycemoore.com/blog/movie-r...
I was flattered to see PERFECT PLACE TO DIE on this list. gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
Top YA Killer Thrillers: Must-Read Books For Halloween 2025: There’s A Killer On The Loose - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Dive into our spine-chilling list of YA killer thrillers for Halloween 2025. Discover your next read with supernatural slashers and human monsters. Get the list!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I was flattered to see PERFECT PLACE TO DIE on this list. gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
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🩸 THIS HALLOWEEN, DON'T JUST GET SPOOKY... GET STALKED. 🩸
Looking for a heart-pounding read this Halloween? 🎃 Our list of top YA killer thrillers is here, featuring slashers, supernatural stalkers, and the most terrifying killers of all: humans.
#YABooks #BookRecs
gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
Looking for a heart-pounding read this Halloween? 🎃 Our list of top YA killer thrillers is here, featuring slashers, supernatural stalkers, and the most terrifying killers of all: humans.
#YABooks #BookRecs
gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
Top YA Killer Thrillers: Must-Read Books For Halloween 2025: There’s A Killer On The Loose - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Dive into our spine-chilling list of YA killer thrillers for Halloween 2025. Discover your next read with supernatural slashers and human monsters. Get the list!
gnofhorror.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🩸 THIS HALLOWEEN, DON'T JUST GET SPOOKY... GET STALKED. 🩸
Looking for a heart-pounding read this Halloween? 🎃 Our list of top YA killer thrillers is here, featuring slashers, supernatural stalkers, and the most terrifying killers of all: humans.
#YABooks #BookRecs
gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
Looking for a heart-pounding read this Halloween? 🎃 Our list of top YA killer thrillers is here, featuring slashers, supernatural stalkers, and the most terrifying killers of all: humans.
#YABooks #BookRecs
gnofhorror.com/ya-killer-th...
Could it be that twenty years from now, people start to complain about Halloween music being played in Walmart starting in August? brycemoore.com/blog/wheres-...
Where’s the Halloween Music?
Here at the library, we started playing music in the Coffee Bar around a year or so ago. The university has a subscription to Sirius (though it doesn’t have all the channels), and it made sen…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Could it be that twenty years from now, people start to complain about Halloween music being played in Walmart starting in August? brycemoore.com/blog/wheres-...
I miss the old days, when a horrific event or decision by the government came around only once in a while, and I had the time to really try to keep up with it all. On the plus side, at least I got to use a good CS Lewis excerpt from The Last Battle today. brycemoore.com/blog/some-cu...
Some Current Thoughts on Life
It’s been a bit since I wrote anything about politics or the state of the world in general. That’s definitely not because I don’t have strong feelings about all of it. It’s …
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October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I miss the old days, when a horrific event or decision by the government came around only once in a while, and I had the time to really try to keep up with it all. On the plus side, at least I got to use a good CS Lewis excerpt from The Last Battle today. brycemoore.com/blog/some-cu...
Reading Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy (the books that were as close to a sequel to Star Wars as fans were to get for years) is more fun now than when I first read them. No, they don't match any of the stuff other than the original trilogy, but so what? brycemoore.com/blog/revisit...
Revisiting the Thrawn Trilogy
Back in Ye Olden Days, before the Star Wars prequels came out, the way to experience Star Wars outside of the original trilogy was through books. There were a whole slew of officially licensed Star…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reading Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy (the books that were as close to a sequel to Star Wars as fans were to get for years) is more fun now than when I first read them. No, they don't match any of the stuff other than the original trilogy, but so what? brycemoore.com/blog/revisit...
Just when you think you're doing a good job staying current with the latest AI developments, you realize there's something that happened months ago that you totally missed. brycemoore.com/blog/learnin...
Learning with AI
Advances in generative AI happen so often these days that even if you do your best to keep up with what’s out there, you still might find yourself in the dark when it comes to a new offering. Some …
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October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just when you think you're doing a good job staying current with the latest AI developments, you realize there's something that happened months ago that you totally missed. brycemoore.com/blog/learnin...
It turns out if you make the calorie counting easier, it's more likely to be successful, at least for me. brycemoore.com/blog/losing-...
Losing Weight with AI
I’ve posted off and on over the last year or so about my sporadic efforts to lose weight again. My good habits of yore had really slipped lately, and each vacation I took, I came home with an…
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October 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It turns out if you make the calorie counting easier, it's more likely to be successful, at least for me. brycemoore.com/blog/losing-...
A quick report on our trip to Eastport over the extended weekend. brycemoore.com/blog/a-trip-...
A Trip to Eastport
UMF has a Fall Break over Indigenous Peoples Weekend, and we took the opportunity to take the girls out to Eastport for a beach house vacation. We typically try to get to the beach a day or two eac…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A quick report on our trip to Eastport over the extended weekend. brycemoore.com/blog/a-trip-...
What exactly do you have to do as a writer to finally feel like you've "made it"? brycemoore.com/blog/when-ha...
When Have You “Arrived” as an Author?
I’ve been writing every day now for more than twenty years. And in that span of time, I’ve constantly found myself setting lines in the sand that felt like they would prove that I had f…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What exactly do you have to do as a writer to finally feel like you've "made it"? brycemoore.com/blog/when-ha...
I gave The Expanse another shot, and I'm really glad I did. Great sci-fi show. brycemoore.com/blog/tv-seri...
TV Series Review: The Expanse
I started watching The Expanse a few years ago. I’d heard good things about it, and I enjoyed the first season a fair bit. However, midway through the second season, I started to get frustrat…
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October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I gave The Expanse another shot, and I'm really glad I did. Great sci-fi show. brycemoore.com/blog/tv-seri...
This new (to me) hymn yesterday was just what I needed during General Conference. I just had to know more about it. Once I did, I thought you might like to know more about it too. brycemoore.com/blog/a-new-t...
A New (to me) Hymn: Jesus is the Way
I haven’t posted all week since my brief post about feeling so down after the attack on the Latter-day Saint church last Sunday. I kept wanting to, but no matter what I thought about posting,…
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October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This new (to me) hymn yesterday was just what I needed during General Conference. I just had to know more about it. Once I did, I thought you might like to know more about it too. brycemoore.com/blog/a-new-t...
Incredibly discouraged today. Not really much to say beyond that. brycemoore.com/blog/too-muc...
Too Much Hate
I don’t have much to say today in the wake of the shooting at the Latter-day Saint congregation in Michigan. It’s incredibly upsetting to have it at all, but to have it happen to member…
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September 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Incredibly discouraged today. Not really much to say beyond that. brycemoore.com/blog/too-muc...
Friends don't let friends write AI slop and claim it as their own. They also don't send slop to friends and force them to read it. brycemoore.com/blog/dealing...
Dealing with AI Slop
I came across an article this morning that talked about how many people were suddenly having to deal with “AI Slop.” Essentially, this is the result of someone using AI to get a job don…
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September 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Friends don't let friends write AI slop and claim it as their own. They also don't send slop to friends and force them to read it. brycemoore.com/blog/dealing...
These days with technology, if you wait a few months (or at times, even a few weeks), you can feel out of date as soon as you try to do something again. brycemoore.com/blog/staying...
Staying Current with AI
There was a time not too long ago when, once you learned how to do something, you could feel fairly confident you’d still know how to do it a few months later. I’m not talking about lea…
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September 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These days with technology, if you wait a few months (or at times, even a few weeks), you can feel out of date as soon as you try to do something again. brycemoore.com/blog/staying...
In honor of Robert Redford's passing, here are my top 4 Redford movies. All of them very worth rewatching, and definitely must-sees in my book, if you've missed out on them so far. brycemoore.com/blog/the-fou...
The Four Robert Redford Movies that Made Him One of My Favorite Actors
I was sad to hear of Robert Redford’s passing yesterday. Growing up, he was one of my favorite actors, mainly because he starred in a few of my favorite movies. They’re films that still…
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September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In honor of Robert Redford's passing, here are my top 4 Redford movies. All of them very worth rewatching, and definitely must-sees in my book, if you've missed out on them so far. brycemoore.com/blog/the-fou...
If everything that happens in the world only serves to convince someone more that they are 100% right and others are 100% wrong, I hope they might come to understand at some point that they're part of the problem brycemoore.com/blog/towards...
Towards Unity
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination last week, I’ve been watching the dialogue on all sides of the political spectrum. And the more I watch, one thought has risen to the surface for…
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September 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If everything that happens in the world only serves to convince someone more that they are 100% right and others are 100% wrong, I hope they might come to understand at some point that they're part of the problem brycemoore.com/blog/towards...
There's always middle ground. We should be encouraging that space to flourish, not trying to turn it into Flanders Fields. brycemoore.com/blog/avoidin...
Avoiding the Fool’s Choice in Today’s Political Environment
A few months ago, I attended a two-day training on the book Crucial Conversations. It was a helpful look at the way we can approach difficult discussions in a way that’s constructive for all …
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September 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
There's always middle ground. We should be encouraging that space to flourish, not trying to turn it into Flanders Fields. brycemoore.com/blog/avoidin...
Some extensive thoughts from me today on how I actively use generative AI as a writer. As with most things in life, it can easily be explained with a clip from Singin in the Rain. brycemoore.com/blog/how-i-u...
How I Use AI as a Writer
Generative AI is still a (very) hot button topic in the writing world. Most authors I’ve heard from seem to range from being quite averse to the technology to actively hating it with a fiery …
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September 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Some extensive thoughts from me today on how I actively use generative AI as a writer. As with most things in life, it can easily be explained with a clip from Singin in the Rain. brycemoore.com/blog/how-i-u...
Daniela asked for an Audrey Hepburn movie and got an Alec Guinness one instead. (But Hepburn's in it for 10 seconds!) The Lavender Hill Mob continues to be a real treat. brycemoore.com/blog/movie-r...
Movie Review: The Lavender Hill Mob
On Saturday evening, Daniela wanted to watch a movie and suggested an Audrey Hepburn film. I got to work poking around to see if there were Hepburn movies I hadn’t seen in a while. (She’…
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September 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Daniela asked for an Audrey Hepburn movie and got an Alec Guinness one instead. (But Hepburn's in it for 10 seconds!) The Lavender Hill Mob continues to be a real treat. brycemoore.com/blog/movie-r...