2025 august reading roundup
sometimes if your phone is far enough away you can feel your brain being grateful as you read
Topic
reading
A collection of 20 issues
2025 june reading roundup
tl;dr 13 books, mostly short, blame the merge games
links to other people's short stories 01
The backstory: Pocket is closing, right? and you can one click export a csv of your stuff, great, well done them, I guess. Naturally I imported that csv to Readwise Reader without looking at the file itself and some chugging later realised it was not a csv of my 55
2025 may reading roundup
tl;dr 14 books, oddly none of them 5 stars
2025 april reading roundup
tl;dr: 19 books, 4 of them five-star
w15: sunday review
forgot to post sunday. was I a) scrolling too hard or b) not aware it was sunday because time has no meaning to the retired?
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things i intended to do and did:
* planted the hazel (in lawn, between pear and plum, always pleased at how much topsoil we
2025 march reading roundup
generated by thestorygraph where my username is also hooksforeverything
Last time i did one of these i ground out amazon referral links to the ones I recommended. imagine me thinking I was hustling. I didn't pay a penny for any of these and nor should you. I am
w11: sunday review
things I intended to do and did:
* delete Reddit account and block the domain;
* check the contents of the go bags;
* some admin for another person that was useful to them and took HOURS but uninteresting to you;
* attend second course tutorial (see 'things I did not enjoy'
blackberries, Virginia, & Anne
It's Michaelmas. Today the devil spits on the blackberries, and I could cut the hedge. I'm reading Virginia, I'm reading Anne, I'm listening to Beth, I'm listening to Polly. The bookmark I found for Anne is a postcard printed with
Philosophy for opting out
When we turn to ancient Chinese society, we find two "philosophical" traditions playing complementary parts-Confucianism and Taoism. Generally speaking, the former concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other words, preoccupies itself with conventional