Books
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On Reading my Own Work
Of course, if you had to read the same thing over and over, you would get sick of it, but sometimes it still surprises me how much I don’t want to edit my work, particularly when I get to the… Continue reading
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Book Review — A Song for the Dying
Book Review for A Song for the Dying, by Stuart MacBride ★★★ Review note: this is a sequel to another book of the series I have but haven’t read yet. I didn’t realise they were part of a series and ended… Continue reading
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Reading Poetry
These days, I really need to be in the mood to read poetry. When I was a bit younger, mid-high school, it was something I did a lot more often. Not nearly as often as reading prose, but enough that… Continue reading
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Book Review — Room
Book Review for Room, by Emma Donoghue ★★★★★ What I thought it would be going in: I wasn’t sure what to expect. I think I was going in understanding what the book was going to be about, but the perspective… Continue reading
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Book Review — The Road
Book Review for The Road, by Cormac McCarthy ★★★ What I thought it would be going in: I wasn’t actually sure what I was going to be reading because around the time there were so many apocalypse/dystopia stories about zombies… Continue reading
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Reading Writers on Writing
Recently, I’ve read mostly (and spoken to some) about the experiences of other writers and their perspectives on some things. I feel that writers are generally eager to help out other writers, and we really own the medium we have… Continue reading
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I Now Have a Goodreads.
I also set up a challenge. It’s a bit of a large challenge … but I’m allowed to count manga. Maybe Goodreads will hold me accountable to my reading goals. And once I get my reading nook … ahhh, to… Continue reading
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Reading Now Compared to Then
My tastes in reading haven’t changed dramatically since I was younger, but they have evolved. Because I Said So Before entering university (the second time … and not even then really), I wouldn’t read what I didn’t want to unless… Continue reading
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The Comfortable Reading Spot
When I sit down to read, I usually plan on sinking into the book for a while, and so I don’t really read in situations where I’m going to need to break away from the book, like on the bus.… Continue reading
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Reading List 2020 – is now Reading List 2021
I have the same two books next to my bed that I think I was reading when I moved back upstairs once covid started to die down in my state. By that, I mean that I’ve barely scraped through my… Continue reading
Hopfield is Writing 