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: Tokyo Ueno Station: Notes & Highlights ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel by Yu Miri ๐Ÿ“š

For a relatively short book, this took โ€ฆ

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No how against this conversation
Of fingers and tongues, this
Rent party above the โ€ฆ

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Luxury, then, is a way of
being ignorant, comfortably
An approach to the open market
of least โ€ฆ

: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca: Highlights

Finished reading: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca ๐Ÿ“š

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we do not receive a short life, but we โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Boy Who Would Be King by Ryan Holiday ๐Ÿ“š

Read this with one of my young sons.

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Finished reading: The Skimming Stone A short story about courage by Dominic Wilcox ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Path of a Doer A Simple Tale of How to Get Things Done by David Hieatt ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson ๐Ÿ“š

Another timely read and โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Address Unknown: A Novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor ๐Ÿ“š

Another in my unplanned โ€ฆ

: The Burnout Society: Notes & Highlights ๐Ÿ“š

Finished reading: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han ๐Ÿ“š

I waited too long after ready to fully โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Moral Equivalent of War by William James ๐Ÿ“š

History is a bath of blood. The โ€ฆ

: Civil Disobedience: Another Timely Read

Finished reading: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ๐Ÿ“š

What would be the consequences of โ€ฆ

: War Is A Racket: A Timely Read

Finished reading: War is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler ๐Ÿ“š

A racket is best described, I โ€ฆ

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The gas too high to fill the tank
One year cost more than did the car
Bus fare so high I gotta walk โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Peace Is This Moment by Thich Nhat Hanh ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Light Fantastic (Discworld, 2) by Terry Pratchett ๐Ÿ“š

Forgot how fun Discworld โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Greenglass House by Kate Milford ๐Ÿ“š

This was a fun read with my daughter. Well โ€ฆ

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one drop of blues turning a paper clip
into three wings and a bone into revolt

from You Know by โ€ฆ

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The distinguishing mark of Man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.โ€™

- โ€ฆ

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Finished (re)reading: Animal Farm by George Orwell ๐Ÿ“š

Revisited this book. Not (just) due to the โ€ฆ

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The line in my earlier post is from the Borges essay The Wall and The Books, which feels like very โ€ฆ

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Burning books and erecting fortifications is a common task of princes

from Labyrinths by Jorge โ€ฆ

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Iโ€™ve tried starting Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges multiple times now and keep getting stopped by โ€ฆ

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To arise one smoking spring
& find oneโ€™s youth has taken off
for greener parts.

from Look for โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Work by Thich Nhat Hanh ๐Ÿ“š

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poetry, which is also a kind of glitch in what we know.

-Patricia Lockwood

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Some people go their whole lives
without ever writing a single poem.

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You’re a nowhere man โ€ฆ

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Complexity from Death Poems by Thomas Ligotti ๐Ÿ“š

Whatever events may lead
to the last moment,
the โ€ฆ

: Highlights from A Month in the Country

As I said in my initial post, “not much happens” in A Month in the Country by J.L. โ€ฆ

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I donโ€™t usually blog about the books I read with my kids, but I love this line from The Teeny-Weeny โ€ฆ

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Premature from Death Poems by Thomas Ligotti ๐Ÿ“š

When it’s all over,
they sometimes say things โ€ฆ

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haiku from A Future Waterfall by Banสผya Natsuishi ๐Ÿ“š

My haiku:
a little cedar
nine hundred โ€ฆ

: Highlights from 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi ๐Ÿ“š

Theory is almost never practice.

It is โ€ฆ

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Finished Listening: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage ๐Ÿ“š

Finally dipped my toe into โ€ฆ

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Safety in Numbers from Death Poems by Thomas Ligotti ๐Ÿ“š

There are plenty more people
than there โ€ฆ

: Notes On & Highlights From A Christmas Carol

This was the first time I’d truly read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ๐Ÿ“š. I know the โ€ฆ

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My 2025 in books

Do RecruitA Future WaterfallThis Beautiful DayConvenience Store WomanA Month in the CountryMorning and EveningDaily SonnetsDeath PoemsThe Wood at Midwinter3 Days, 9 Months, 27 YearsA Drop of CorruptionEncounterSiegeRisenThe HuntedBuilding a Successful Micro-AgencyThe Pit And The BoxFalling DownNothingThe Blacktongue ThiefAdam and Eve in ParadiseStrange PicturesThe Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic TalesThis Inevitable RuinThe Eye of the Bedlam BrideThe Butcher's MasqueradeThe Tainted CupThe Gate of the Feral GodsThe Dungeon Anarchist's CookbookCarl's Doomsday ScenarioAutomatic NoodlePiranesiSmall Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)Dungeon Crawler CarlThe Longing for LessOxymoronicaEx LibrisHalcyon DriftThe River Has RootsAll Systems RedTrain DreamsJonathan Livingston SeagullChess StoryThe 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United StatesFosterTentacleThe Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Masters of AtlantisThe MournerThe OutfitThe Man with the Getaway FaceThe HunterVanishing GamesExcellent Advice for LivingBowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands UnknownMooncopThe Book of MagicThe Mountain in the SeaBaltimore Omnibus Volume 2Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1Wynd Book Three: The Throne in the SkyWynd Book Two: The Secret of the WingsFrozen HellWynd Vol. 1Crush & LoboZawa + The Belly of the BeastZatanna: Bring Down The HouseI Kill GiantsGhostmanDead Boy Detectives Vol. 2: Ghost SnowDead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy TerrorsWeThe Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 5The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 4The Eyes of the CatAnkle SnatcherThe Colour Of MagicMiao DaoThe Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other PoemsGet Jiro!Megalex - Megalex Vol. 1 - 3 - Digital OmnibusThe Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 3The Final Girl Support GroupSeven Brief Lessons on PhysicsThe Fragile Threads of PowerTremors of the Buried Moon, Vol. 1Militant ModernismA Self-Help Guide for CopywritersWhen I Arrived at the CastleUltimate X-Men Vol. 1Twisted RomanceThe Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Volume 2Notes from the UndergroundIn Praise of ShadowsSnow BonesPale Colors in a Tall Field100M Offers Made EasyLocke Lamora and the Bottled SerpentThereโ€™s a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your BedHannah-BeastThe Sleep Tight MotelUnorthodoxyA Christmas CarolExposed WishesFailed States

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Finished reading: The Life of Violet by Virginia Woolf ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: This Beautiful Day by Fred Rogers ๐Ÿ“š

A wonderful daily reader (an underrated โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Vine That Ate the South by J. D. Wilkes ๐Ÿ“š

This was a rollicking romp through โ€ฆ

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Despite its drawbacks,
death can come in handy.
Sometimes it may even seem
all the world lives on โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata ๐Ÿ“š

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In order to get things done
it’s essential to have pain
without it, nothing could be

from De โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr ๐Ÿ“š

A story where not much happens, but more โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse ๐Ÿ“š

Writing that feels as if reading the โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Daily Sonnets by Laynie Browne ๐Ÿ“š

I think of my (now latent) poetry practice as โ€ฆ

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George Saunders on good art from โ€œproblematicโ€ artists.

A good read in a time when we are expected โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Death Poems by Thomas Ligotti ๐Ÿ“š

A collection of what it says on the cover by a โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke ๐Ÿ“š

A lovely Christmastime read from the โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang ๐Ÿ“

Economic sci-fi, the genre I didnโ€™t know I โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi ๐Ÿ“š

Fun time travel tale

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Finished reading: The Three Stigmata of Peter Thiel by Brendan C. Byrne ๐Ÿ“

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Finished reading: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett ๐Ÿ“š

Builds wonderfully on the first โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Theyโ€™re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson ๐Ÿ“

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Finished reading: Encounter by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

He understood now that love was sacrifice. It โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Siege by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

One doesnโ€™t chase fish in a boat; one drops โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Risen by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Hunted by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Building a Successful Micro-Agency by Gil Gildner ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Pit And The Box by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Falling Down by Guillermo Del Toro ๐Ÿ“š

It can all end in a moment. Take for โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Nothing by Nicholas Day ๐Ÿ“š

Got to introduce my oldest to John Cage through this โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman ๐Ÿ“š

Really got into this one. Put the โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eรงa de Queirรณs ๐Ÿ“š

A 19th century short alternate take โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Strange Pictures by Uketsu ๐Ÿ“š

Thread by thread into a rope.

2 highlights:

Adults โ€ฆ

: Highlights from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series

This series is so much fun.

From Dungeon Crawler Carl ๐Ÿ“š

You always want to know why. Why canโ€™t you โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic Tales by โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett ๐Ÿ“š

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Watched: Wednesday S2E2, The Devil You Woe ๐Ÿฟ

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Watched: Wednesday S2E1, Here We Woe Again ๐Ÿฟ

Spooky szn is back!

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Finished reading: The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

This series is so much fun. And โ€ฆ

: Highlights from Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan ๐Ÿ“š

A short but impactful book. A โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿœ

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Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman ๐Ÿ“š

Well this was a whole lot of fun.

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Finished reading: The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Oxymoronica by Dr. Mardy Grothe ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Ex Libris by Matt Madden ๐Ÿ“š

Enjoyed this one. Very much my style of type and โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Halcyon Drift by Brian M. Stableford ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach ๐Ÿ“š

Read this book

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Finished reading: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Do Recruit by Khalilah Olokunola ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Foster by Claire Keegan ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Tentacle by Rita Indiana ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carrรฉ ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights from Wranglers' Canyon/Crash Walker

Wranglers’ Canyon/Crash Walker by Andy Seven ๐Ÿ“š

from Wranglers’ Canyon

How can one โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Wranglers’ Canyon/Crash Walker by Andy Seven ๐Ÿ“š

A punk novel twofer that โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis ๐Ÿ“š

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Seems like a good time for the Sublime-minded to revisit this article from The Ringer: The Sun Gods โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Mourner by Richard Stark ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Outfit by Richard Stark ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Man with the Getaway Face by Richard Stark ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Hunter by Richard Stark ๐Ÿ“š

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Badgerโ€™s Law: โ€œAny website with the word โ€˜Truthโ€™ in the URL has none in the posted content.โ€ (see โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs ๐Ÿ“š

The sequel to Ghostman.

Loved both these books. โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Dead Manโ€™s Switch by Robin Sloan ๐Ÿ“

the invention of the AI model was the โ€ฆ

: A Curated Collection of Quotes from Excellent Advice for Living

Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly ๐Ÿ“š

Books like these feel a bit like divination engines. โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights from The Devilโ€™s Whatever (in The Book of Magic)

Andy Duncanโ€™s story in The Book of Magic, edited by Gardner Dozois, had some great lines. ๐Ÿ“š โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown by Mike Mignola ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Mooncop by Tom Gauld ๐Ÿ“š

Feels like there might be a metaphor for current times in โ€ฆ

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Finished reading (2 stories in): The Book of Magic by George R. R. Martin ๐Ÿ“š

Got this from the โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler ๐Ÿ“š

Recommended

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Finished reading: Baltimore Omnibus Volume 2 by Mike Mignola ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 by Mike Mignola ๐Ÿ“š

I love Mike Mignola

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Finished reading: Wynd Book Three: The Throne in the Sky by James Tynion IV ๐Ÿ“š

This series has โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Wynd Book Two: The Secret of the Wings by James Tynion IV ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr. ๐Ÿ“š

If you shoot it through the heart, and it โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Wynd Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV ๐Ÿ“š

Magic ๐Ÿช„

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Finished reading: Crush & Lobo by Mariko Tamaki ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Zawa + The Belly of the Beast by Michael Dialynas ๐Ÿ“š

Another fun read. This one โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Spider-Man & Venom by Gurihiru ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Zatanna: Bring Down The House by Mariko Tamaki ๐Ÿ“š

This was a lot of fun. And the โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: PIZZAโ€ฆ? (Spring 20:25) from Secret Restaurant Press ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ““ (IG, ebay)

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Finished reading: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 2: Ghost Snow by Toby Litt ๐Ÿ“š

DOVES are just pigeons โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors by Toby Litt ๐Ÿ“š

late posting this โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Failed States haiku by Peter Jastermsky ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Exposed Wishes haiku chapbook by Billy Antonio ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 5 by Eiji Otsuka ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 4 by Eiji Otsuka ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Eyes of the Cat by Moebius ๐Ÿ“š

Moebius is amazing โœ๏ธ

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Finished reading: Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix ๐Ÿ“š

Classic Grady, it’s a fun one.

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This is a really cool visual style

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Finished reading: The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett ๐Ÿ“š

This was fun

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โ€œWe ask for a change to come, and then when that change do come, we act like we donโ€™t give a damn โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Miao Dao by Joyce Carol Oates ๐Ÿ“š

The bully is always the one who has been hurt. โ€ฆ

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Watched Eno last night ๐Ÿฟ

My kind of subject, film, and aesthetic.

I hope this is the beginning of โ€ฆ

: Notes & Highlights on Megalex ๐Ÿ“š

Megalex by Alejandro Jodorowsky ๐Ÿ“š

Not as much fun as The Incal, but still classic Jodorowsky.

My โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Get Jiro! by Anthony Bourdain ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Megalex - Megalex Vol. 1 - 3 - Digital Omnibus by Alejandro Jodorowsky ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Sleep Tight Motel by Lisa Unger ๐Ÿ“š

Itโ€™s solid and heavy in my hand, a โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Hannah-Beast by Jennifer McMahon ๐Ÿ“š

But the stories were just that: stories. โ€ฆ

: Notes & Highlights from Reap3r ๐Ÿ“š A whole lot of snippets I highlighted while reading Eliot Peper’s Reap3r.

: Notes & Highlights From Militant Modernism ๐Ÿ“š

Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley ๐Ÿ“š

This is like the mirror of William Gibson’s quote, โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Thereโ€™s a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed by Edgar Cantero ๐Ÿ“š

There was no โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Writer and The Witch by Robin Sloan ๐Ÿ“

Turns out this is the second time I read โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 3 by Eiji Otsuka ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Skin Deep by Flo Woolley ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Selected Scenes from the Ecologies of the Labyrinth by Scott Lynch ๐Ÿ“

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Finished reading: The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab ๐Ÿ“š

Really enjoyed this one.

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Finished reading: Harriet Amber in the Conan Arcade by Robin Sloan ๐Ÿ“

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Finished reading: Tremors of the Buried Moon, Vol. 1 by J.C. Rogers ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley ๐Ÿ“š

: Notes & Highlights from Notes from the Underground ๐Ÿ“š

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ๐Ÿ“š

Each time I picked this up it took a bit to get โ€ฆ

: Notes & Highlights From The Belan Deck ๐Ÿ“š

The Belan Deck by Matt Bucher ๐Ÿ“š

I found this book via Austin Kleon. It’s a fun read that will โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters by Dan B Nelken ๐Ÿ“š

Highly recommended read for โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: In The Stacks (Maisieโ€™s Tune) by Robin Sloan ๐Ÿ“

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Finished reading: Kaiju Agonistes by Scott Lynch ๐Ÿ“

Fun read

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Finished reading: Ultimate X-Men Vol. 1 by Peach Momoko ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Twisted Romance by Alex de Campi ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Volume 2 by Eiji Otsuka ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent Part II by Scott Lynch in Grimdark #41 ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Elyse Flayme and the final flood by Robin Sloan ๐Ÿ“

We cannot undo these curses โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights from In Praise of Shadows ๐Ÿ“š

I finished reading In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki recently, which means itโ€™s highlights โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: At The Tombstone by Dimiar Anakiev ๐Ÿ““

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Finished reading: In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki ๐Ÿ“š

I was all set to say this is a โ€ฆ

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Just listened: Bill Frisell live at The Joint in 1986 ๐ŸŽต

I love weirdo guitar music, of โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Snow Bones by Masaya Saito ๐Ÿ“š

I love haiku collections that expand the form. Here, โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished listening: Stephan Wolfram on AI on The Reason Interview podcast ๐ŸŽง

Really enjoyed this โ€ฆ

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Finished listening: The Strange Case by Derek Kolstad ๐ŸŽง

A post-Bourne reimagining of the source โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Daily Laws by Robert Greene ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: 365 Days of Meditations from Diogenes the Cynic and Aristippus the Cyrenaic by โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Belan Deck by Matt Bucher ๐Ÿ“š

My notes & highlights.

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Finished reading: Reap3r by Eliot Peper ๐Ÿ“š

Another great Peper novel, really loving these.

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Business and money are the only two obscene topics left in American poetry.

-Dana Gioia

: Notes & Highlights from Don't Believe Everything You Think ๐Ÿ“š

Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) by Joseph Nguyen ๐Ÿ“š

If you’ve โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) by Joseph Nguyen ๐Ÿ“š

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For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Wonder Woman Vol. 2 by Tom King ๐Ÿ“š

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Poetry tends to abolish time and present experience as dense and compressed.  Prose is โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Outlaw by Tom King ๐Ÿ“š

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Shelved: Mind’s Eye by Douglas E. Richards ๐Ÿ“š

I got bogged down by exposition and had to put โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Foundry by Eliot Peper ๐Ÿ“š

This one was a lot of fun.

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Finished playing: Monument Valley 2 ๐ŸŽฎ

Soothing puzzling, if you find Escher soothing.

: Highlights from Gift from the Sea ๐Ÿ“š

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh ๐Ÿ“š

Found this book via Ryan Holiday and it reminded me of โ€ฆ

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Finished playing: Monument Valley ๐ŸŽฎ

Lovely game, visually and sonically.

Totem!

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Finished reading: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished playing: Paper Trail ๐ŸŽฎ

Played on iOS via Netflix Games

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I love that the regularly referenced newspaper in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is called The National โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 1 by Eiji Otsuka ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights from Jekyll & Hyde; & A "Review"

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson ๐Ÿ“š

My โ€ฆ

: Quotes for the Moment: November 10, 2024

I have a few daily reads booksโ€”the kind that has a different entry for each day of the year with โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Batman Noir: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights from We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ๐Ÿ“š

All the Blackwood women had taken the food โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Little Mermaid, In Passing by Angela Slatter in Grimdark #40 ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent by Scott Lynch in Grimdark #40 ๐Ÿ““๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ๐Ÿ“š ๐ŸŽƒ

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Finished Listening: The Crucible by Arthur Miller ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽง ๐ŸŽƒ ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ

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This is my kind of game show.

: Highlights from Eerie East Anglia ๐Ÿ“š

Eerie East Anglia by Edward Parnell

Few people can resist the temptation to try a little amateur โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer ร–zlรผ ๐Ÿ“š

In the old days, you could see through โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: between satellites by Dave Read ๐Ÿ““

autumn bullets a duck without encryption

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Finished reading: Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil ๐Ÿ“š

Monsters donโ€™t incarnate. They regress.

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Finished reading: The Taco Stand at the Edge of the Woods by Katherine Montalto ๐Ÿ““

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Finished reading: Outgrowth by Sonia Feldman ๐Ÿ“

When Iโ€™m working with the flowers, a window in my โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Macbeth by William Shakespeare ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Orpheus in the Underpass by Gabriel Rosenstock ๐Ÿ“š

no smell of earth
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Finished reading: Says The Rose by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz ๐Ÿ“š

pounding on the echo chamber door my no to โ€ฆ

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Finally watched Nosferatu ๐Ÿฟ

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Finished reading: Leaves in the Wind by Foster Jewell ๐Ÿ“š

Nearing the mountains โ€“
yesterday, and still โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: As Is by Elmedin Kadric ๐Ÿ“š

Haiku / minimal poetry chapbook

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Three Ghost Stories: 1944โ€“48 by Bhanu Kapil ๐Ÿ‘ป

At the intersection of poetry and short story

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Finished reading: The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Haunted Castles by Ray Russell ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽƒ

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Finished reading: The Witches by Roald Dahl ๐Ÿ“š ๐ŸŽƒ

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Finished reading: Bird Snow On Hard Tracks : After Nelson Ball by Stuart Ross ๐Ÿ“š

Owls hear a field โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Do Grow by Alice Holden ๐Ÿ“š

: Highlights & A Reading List from Bloodchild and Other Stories

by Octavia E. Butler ๐Ÿ“š

Did childhood habits die hardโ€”or not die at all?

Thatโ€™s the trouble with โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Bits and Bobs by Ryan Stearne ๐Ÿ“š

displaced essence of work. An artifact of the โ€ฆ

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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ๐Ÿ“š

Mushi-shi ๐Ÿ“บ

Bloodchild by Octavia โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Noise by Jordan Davis ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Eerie East Anglia by Edward Parnell ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Eerie East Anglia by Edward Parnell ๐Ÿ“š

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Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isnโ€™t watching. Heโ€™s singing and dancing. Heโ€™s โ€ฆ

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A beautiful idea from Tyler Cowen:

At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Queen of the Abyss by Mike Ashley ๐Ÿ“š

Highlights

from The Sculptorโ€™s Angel by Marie โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Evil Roots by D. Butcher ๐Ÿ“š

Who knew botanical gothic was a genre, let alone my โ€ฆ

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I’m not entirely sure what my thoughts are on this book. I enjoyed the craft of the writing โ€ฆ

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The towers of the cathedral were a fistful of magic flames in the light of the setting sun. โ€ฆ

: Highlights from Baby, I Don't Care

Like reading one side of a series of conversations from a Great Gatsby party guest. A great book of โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Y/N by Esther Yi ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: One Minute Nonsense by Anthony De Mello ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Trip Trap by Jack Kerouac ๐Ÿ“š

read in a cabin in the woods

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Finished reading: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Miรฉville ๐Ÿ“š

What An Opening Line โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves ๐Ÿ“š

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Currently reading: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves ๐Ÿ“š

Canโ€™t wait to get into this.

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It seems the louder one yells about free speech, the more they mean

freedom of my speech

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freedom โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: American Flagg! by Howard V. Chaykin ๐Ÿ“š

Found via Disquiet, feels timely.

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Finished reading: Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler ๐Ÿ“š

A glimpse โ€ฆ

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Art is the thing nobody asked you to do.

-Babak Ganjei

I love this quote I found via Danโ€™s Daily โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Plainchant by Eamon Grennan ๐Ÿ“š

and gone, gone again as on a raw electric current โ€ฆ

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Iโ€™m starting Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler today becauseโ€”as โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel ๐Ÿ“š

Barbados

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Finished reading: Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Bear by Andrew Krivak ๐Ÿ“š

Like if The Road was written by a nature poet.

Some โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: A Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished perusing: High on Life by David J. P. Phillips ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Hunters in the Snow by D. M. Thomas ๐Ÿ“š

To my intense surprise and dismay I didnโ€™t โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Mister Yam by Yeng Tan ๐Ÿ“š

What are humans if not a collection of short stories? โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Tokyo Decadence by R. Murakami ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Mid-Earth Removals Limited by R.S.A. Garcia ๐Ÿ‰

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Finished reading: Lost Animals Geoff Manaugh ๐Ÿ‘ป

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Finished reading: How to Say No by Diogenes ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth ๐Ÿ“š

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Agree with this

I donโ€™t think weโ€™re in an economy now, especially in the United States, of โ€œoh, โ€ฆ

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Young consumers love brands that are cool

Since constantly innovating is at the core of whatโ€™s โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill ๐Ÿ“š

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I have a theory that haiku is the perfect written art form for our time, so this podcast about the โ€ฆ

: The Ballad of the Sad Cafรฉ by Carson McCullers ๐Ÿ“š

From The Ballad of the Sad Cafรฉ by Carson McCullers ๐Ÿ“š

Highlights

With all things which could be โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: HOLE. by HIROKO. OYAMADA ๐Ÿ“š

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The most important building material we have is love

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Finished reading: The Ballad of the Sad Cafรฉ by Carson McCullers ๐Ÿ“š

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an ability previously thought to be unique to humans.

Something we should get more comfortable โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: The Wager by David Grann ๐Ÿ“š

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This site is fun.

Screenshot of A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon showing a few different drawings of the gods

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Finished reading: Head Lopper Vol. 2: Crimson Tower by Andrew Maclean ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Head Lopper Volume 1: The Island Or a Plague of Beasts by Andrew Ross MacLean ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: The Last Horse: Prologue by Aaron Tucker ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 8: Rake at the Gates of Hell by Garth Ennis ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 7: Tainted Love by Garth Ennis ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 6: Bloodlines by Garth Ennis ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Agostino by Alberto Moravia ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Prayers to the Nature Spirits by Julia Cameron ๐Ÿ“š

God of Coyote, God of Fox, โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Demon Wars by Peach Momoko ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 5: Dangerous Habits (New Edition) by Jamie โ€ฆ

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Finished reading: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Big Boy Leaves Home from Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 by Haruki Murakami ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished dabbling: Mind Management, Not Time Management by David Kadavy ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Demon Days Treasury Edition by Peach Momoko ๐Ÿ“š

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Finished reading: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson ๐Ÿ“š