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  • 2022: A Year in Books

    After a few years of not reading as much as I used to — combined with some not-so-great record-keeping for the books I DID read — I think it’s safe to say that I’m back, baby. Growing up, I was… Continue reading

  • Books and Thoughts and Thoughts and Books

    After a few years of not hitting my reading goals (due to reading a ton of fanfic, too much choice, and forgetting to update Goodreads), I delighted myself by hitting my goal of 60 books read in 2022 back in… Continue reading

  • Some Good Things

    The breakfast sandwich I made on a ciabatta roll earlier today (technically it was a lunch sandwich, if we’re going by timing, but it was a breakfast sandwich in its essence). Reading the excellent The Seep by Chana Porter, which… Continue reading

  • Best-Laid Plans, and So On

    I’m starting to think that I’m doomed, when it comes to planning what I’m going to write. This probably should have been obvious to me, given that I’m pretty bad at outlining, and yet! Here I am, surprised at how… Continue reading

  • And again.

    Every so often, I come back to blogging — having never gotten over the loss of Google Reader (which is, I write somewhat facetiously, where we started to go wrong as a civilization) — though I never stay for long,… Continue reading