topic: reading
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2019
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Nov
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18
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Writing Requires Reading—JOURNAL
…as my November-writing adventures make clear!
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Dec
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10
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31
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Recursion—LIBRARY
Blake Crouch’s latest thriller is—delightfully—about something.
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Dark Matter—LIBRARY
I could not put this book down. Also, it was kind of creepy.
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Adieu to 2019—JOURNAL
A year of rest and recovery, for which I’m profoundly grateful.
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2020
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Jan
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12
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Tell Me Your Priors!—LIBRARY
A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.
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23
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Tiamat’s Wrath—LIBRARY
The things only the eighth book in a series can do.
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Feb
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13
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Adding a Reading List Page—LIBRARY
A central place to see what I’ve read and what I’ve said about it!
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Mar
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15
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Jurassic Park—LIBRARY
A book that knows it is both a sci-fi thriller and sociotechnological commentary.
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21
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The Lost World—LIBRARY
Not quite as spectacular as the first entry… but still a lot of fun.
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May
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31
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Reading Habits—JOURNAL
How exactly do I go about reading, and what do I read these days?
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Jun
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Jul
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24
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On Ending “This Week I Learned”—JOURNAL
At least for now, I don’t have time for this particular bit of blogging. And that’s okay.
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Aug
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13
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Polemic is Hard—LIBRARY
One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.
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29
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Can You Recommend a Book on This?—JOURNAL
Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?
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Nov
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28
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore—LIBRARY
Robin Sloan’s debut novel was just astonishing.
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Dec
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31
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Wrapping Up 2020 and Starting 2021—JOURNAL
Goodbye, good riddance, won’t look back fondly on this one.
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2021
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Jun
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01
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Miscellaneous Updates—JOURNAL
Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.
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07
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Reread Books!—LIBRARY
Fiction, nonfiction, steak, popcorn: find books you love and reread them.
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Dec
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24
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2021 End-of-Year Thoughts —JOURNAL
Another year behind, another reflection on what happened (and what didn’t!) in this latest circuit of the sun.
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2022
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Jan
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02
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Tentative 2022 Reading List—LIBRARY
The books I would like to get through this year.
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12
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Don’t Sprint the First Mile of a Half Marathon—JOURNAL
On establishing a sustainable pace at the start of a new year.
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Sep
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21
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The Man from the Future—LIBRARY
An interesting study in the life of a profoundly influential man.
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Dec
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29
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2022 in Review: Reading —JOURNAL
I read a lot less than I wanted, but I still made my goal of 22 books in the year. I’ll take it!
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2023
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Dec
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That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!