Finished reading: The Dark Tower II by Stephen King 📚

Currently reading: The Dark Tower II by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry 📚

Currently reading: Scholarly Pursuits by Robin S. Blackwood 📚

I just received my digital copy of Scholarly Pursuits collected by Robin S. Blackwood. I’ll probably wait to read it until I receive my physical copy in the mail. Very excited! 📚

Finished reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

What a beautiful book. How Ozeki handles grief, mental illness, and growth, is astonishing.

Started reading: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 📚

Finished reading: Crank by Ellen Hopkins 📚

Read this because it was fairly widely banned.

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. A vital work. With American fascism in full swing, you can’t afford to miss it. At 120 small pages, and under eight bucks for a hard copy, there’s no excuse. 📚 🇺🇸 ✊

I’ve been reading less books this year. The overwhelm of our crumbling democracy inside the United States has been devastating, which I’ve used as an excuse to feed my screen addiction.

I’m making a conscious effort to take a step or two back from internet consumption, and read more physical books. Amidst a wealth of inspiration from On Tyranny, this quote is present for me right now.

Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey the thing you think everyone else is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Thought matters. Your thoughts change, for the better, I think, when they’re slower. As painful as changing any addictive habit can be, I’m trying to slow down and read. 📚 🇺🇸

Started reading: Polysecure by Jessica Fern 📚

Started reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

Currently reading: Will Not Attend by Adam Resnick 📚

Finished reading: The secret rules of the terminal by Julia Evans 📚

I’ve been using the terminal almost every day for around fifteen years. I’m curious and I read about CLI things. I learned a lot reading this zine. Stellar work as always.

Finished reading: The History of Sketch Comedy by Keegan-Michael Key 📚

Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚

Fun read, but funny to think that back in 2011 a near future techno dystopian novel didn’t guess that the technology itself might suck shit.

Started reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 📚

Started reading: The History of Sketch Comedy by Keegan-Michael Key 📚

Finished reading: Monsters by Claire Dederer 📚

So much to ruminate on, to feel through. Dederer is both cogent and emotionally honest, clear eyed, resilient, and heartbroken. Fantastic.

Started reading: Monsters by Claire Dederer 📚

Finished reading: John Waters by James Egan 📚

Finished reading: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 📚

Started reading: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 📚

Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang 📚

What an incredible book.

Started reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang 📚