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I swear NYT headlines will give you brain cancer. If I knew someone who hedged everything to this degree I'd end up strangling them
September 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I swear NYT headlines will give you brain cancer. If I knew someone who hedged everything to this degree I'd end up strangling them
Really gross framing of the Supreme Court's shitty decision. The alternative, when a Republican supermajority discriminates against you is to what? Somehow it is always the liberal's fault for conservative abuses.
June 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Really gross framing of the Supreme Court's shitty decision. The alternative, when a Republican supermajority discriminates against you is to what? Somehow it is always the liberal's fault for conservative abuses.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Oh man, this is very likely going to be my favorite book I read this year. I loved all the characters. I am dangerously close to making this my whole personality. Nearly 900 pages and I wanted more by the end. One of the best American epics written.
Oh man, this is very likely going to be my favorite book I read this year. I loved all the characters. I am dangerously close to making this my whole personality. Nearly 900 pages and I wanted more by the end. One of the best American epics written.
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Oh man, this is very likely going to be my favorite book I read this year. I loved all the characters. I am dangerously close to making this my whole personality. Nearly 900 pages and I wanted more by the end. One of the best American epics written.
Oh man, this is very likely going to be my favorite book I read this year. I loved all the characters. I am dangerously close to making this my whole personality. Nearly 900 pages and I wanted more by the end. One of the best American epics written.
I am behind on some books I finished. The Underground Village by Kang Kyŏng-ae
These are bleak stories. I took a break half way through and put it down for a month before finishing on a trip. Lots of death, illness, poverty. . .
These are bleak stories. I took a break half way through and put it down for a month before finishing on a trip. Lots of death, illness, poverty. . .
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I am behind on some books I finished. The Underground Village by Kang Kyŏng-ae
These are bleak stories. I took a break half way through and put it down for a month before finishing on a trip. Lots of death, illness, poverty. . .
These are bleak stories. I took a break half way through and put it down for a month before finishing on a trip. Lots of death, illness, poverty. . .
March 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Got my first roll of film back and had a few pics I liked. Need a lot more practice with the Pentax ME.
#photography #35mm #filmphotography#filmisnotdead
#photography #35mm #filmphotography#filmisnotdead
March 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Got my first roll of film back and had a few pics I liked. Need a lot more practice with the Pentax ME.
#photography #35mm #filmphotography#filmisnotdead
#photography #35mm #filmphotography#filmisnotdead
Seems very bad. It's like hiring a moron to read your search results and tell you what they mean
March 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seems very bad. It's like hiring a moron to read your search results and tell you what they mean
2666 by Roberto Bolano. A dense, impossibly challenging novel. You could spend all year looking for meaning in the stories within stories.
“senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous explosion, we find communion.”
“senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous explosion, we find communion.”
February 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
2666 by Roberto Bolano. A dense, impossibly challenging novel. You could spend all year looking for meaning in the stories within stories.
“senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous explosion, we find communion.”
“senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous explosion, we find communion.”
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Read these early in February and they were truly shocking. The ending of "Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression" was probably the meanest I've ever seen an author be towards its protagonist. I shouted, and had to reread it. 💙📚
Read these early in February and they were truly shocking. The ending of "Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression" was probably the meanest I've ever seen an author be towards its protagonist. I shouted, and had to reread it. 💙📚
February 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Read these early in February and they were truly shocking. The ending of "Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression" was probably the meanest I've ever seen an author be towards its protagonist. I shouted, and had to reread it. 💙📚
Read these early in February and they were truly shocking. The ending of "Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression" was probably the meanest I've ever seen an author be towards its protagonist. I shouted, and had to reread it. 💙📚
Crying in H Mart was really touching. It's the best kind of memoir in that it's extremely clear eyed and honest and add to it some of the best food writing. The final chapter of her playing a concert in Seoul really got to me. 📚💙
February 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Crying in H Mart was really touching. It's the best kind of memoir in that it's extremely clear eyed and honest and add to it some of the best food writing. The final chapter of her playing a concert in Seoul really got to me. 📚💙
Today's book haul from The King's English Bookshop. Easily the best bookstore in SLC
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February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today's book haul from The King's English Bookshop. Easily the best bookstore in SLC
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Started Antisocial by Andrew Marantz and it feels like 5 years too late. Even if all these alt-right, proud boys, and techno-utopians didn't have such vile opinions, they'd still be such huge losers. I don't know how any reporter spends more than five minutes with them
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Started Antisocial by Andrew Marantz and it feels like 5 years too late. Even if all these alt-right, proud boys, and techno-utopians didn't have such vile opinions, they'd still be such huge losers. I don't know how any reporter spends more than five minutes with them
Fire Weather by John Vaillant - Amazing. Important. Its part late 90's disaster film, part environmental science, part history, and part manifesto. Combine those with chapter intro quotes be George Saunders, Borges, Ovid, and Melville (1/4)
January 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Fire Weather by John Vaillant - Amazing. Important. Its part late 90's disaster film, part environmental science, part history, and part manifesto. Combine those with chapter intro quotes be George Saunders, Borges, Ovid, and Melville (1/4)
This is a great book about the early Los Angeles criminal history. I really enjoyed it.
January 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This is a great book about the early Los Angeles criminal history. I really enjoyed it.
(2) The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
This was a long and good look at some of the insanity that is going on within the evangelical world. Trumpism has taken over the pews across the country and the author argues that it is a form of idolatry where they are worshipping the USA
This was a long and good look at some of the insanity that is going on within the evangelical world. Trumpism has taken over the pews across the country and the author argues that it is a form of idolatry where they are worshipping the USA
January 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
(2) The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
This was a long and good look at some of the insanity that is going on within the evangelical world. Trumpism has taken over the pews across the country and the author argues that it is a form of idolatry where they are worshipping the USA
This was a long and good look at some of the insanity that is going on within the evangelical world. Trumpism has taken over the pews across the country and the author argues that it is a form of idolatry where they are worshipping the USA
(01) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - My first Hemingway novel was a pleasant surprise. The prose at the beginning worried me as a couple of times I felt bored, but the characters and dialogue kept in it. I'm glad too. I was surprised at how funny it was!
January 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(01) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - My first Hemingway novel was a pleasant surprise. The prose at the beginning worried me as a couple of times I felt bored, but the characters and dialogue kept in it. I'm glad too. I was surprised at how funny it was!
I read less nonfiction than fiction by a fairly wide margin, but all of these were great books. I had heard about Suppose a Sentence from @backlisted.bsky.social and it changed how I'm reading. The third book in the Copenhagen Trilogy, "Addiction" was the most unabashed view of opioid addiction
December 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I read less nonfiction than fiction by a fairly wide margin, but all of these were great books. I had heard about Suppose a Sentence from @backlisted.bsky.social and it changed how I'm reading. The third book in the Copenhagen Trilogy, "Addiction" was the most unabashed view of opioid addiction
My favorite fiction this year was dominated by translated books. Barbara Isn't Dying by Alina Bronsky surprised me the most as it was a spontaneous bookstore pickup but it was so charming. The Land Breakers by John Ehle was probably my absolute favorite as I'm sucker for farming novels.
December 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM
My favorite fiction this year was dominated by translated books. Barbara Isn't Dying by Alina Bronsky surprised me the most as it was a spontaneous bookstore pickup but it was so charming. The Land Breakers by John Ehle was probably my absolute favorite as I'm sucker for farming novels.
This is the first year I read more than one book a week, and finished with 55 for the year. These were my favorites though and I highly recommend all of them. Several were from @backlisted.bsky.social and quite a few were award winners.
December 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM
This is the first year I read more than one book a week, and finished with 55 for the year. These were my favorites though and I highly recommend all of them. Several were from @backlisted.bsky.social and quite a few were award winners.
Finished this Christmas afternoon, and while it's a terrible Christmas read, it is moving. A dystopian fascist Ireland through the eyes of a mother trying to shepherd her family through, with a husband who has been disappeared by the new secret police.
December 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Finished this Christmas afternoon, and while it's a terrible Christmas read, it is moving. A dystopian fascist Ireland through the eyes of a mother trying to shepherd her family through, with a husband who has been disappeared by the new secret police.
Started Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino a few days ago, and wasn't sure I was going to vibe with it. I was slow gaining steam but I'm picking it up exponentially longer each time. Really loving it!
December 17, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Started Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino a few days ago, and wasn't sure I was going to vibe with it. I was slow gaining steam but I'm picking it up exponentially longer each time. Really loving it!
Short read whose style reminded me of a deadpan anime like Mob Psycho. The stories here are meant to emulate urban legends and rumors told by children but the lack of complexity became boring at times. Translated into very plain spoken sentences which weren't fun to read.
December 12, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Short read whose style reminded me of a deadpan anime like Mob Psycho. The stories here are meant to emulate urban legends and rumors told by children but the lack of complexity became boring at times. Translated into very plain spoken sentences which weren't fun to read.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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