📚 Finished Reading: The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded by Michael D. Watkins
I liked this Libro.fm audiobook enough that I bought a hardback version, as well. I’ll post more detailed notes after I go through it a second time.
📚 Just caught-up with a couple (back-dated) book completion posts. (All recent ones are on my reading page.)
📚 Finished Reading: The Mysteries by John Kascht, Bill Watterson
Recommended
Not at all what I was expecting from the return of Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), but highly appreciated nonetheless. This will be a book I will need to re-read every once in a while, and I expect I’ll notice something new each time.
🏉 watching the ARG v ENG bronze match while we listen to Inspector Gamache 📚
These Argentina jerseys remind me of my favorite #USMNT jersey of the last couple decades.⚽️
📚💪 Doing my 5k walk fundraiser on my lunch break today, and getting to the library is halfway. Perfect!
📚 Finished Reading: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I’d heard many good things about this book, but I’m afraid it was soured by the narrator we listened to, who did a poor job reading (let alone performing) the book. I thought the horror element was well done, as was the critique of colonialism et. al.
So many people have recommended Mexican Gothic and…it makes me wonder how much the audio performer can ruin a book. 📚
I’m thinking when I start an audiobook and it’s not good, that I should try again in different format.
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I like the variety of pre-church activity this morning in our house.
I’m listening to HolyName - Fall on Your Knees and their live heavy taizé set.
Spouse is listening to Emily P. Freeman/Next Right Thing, charming inspiresting devotional.
Both reading At Home in Exile by Russell Jeung
We made a departure from #PeoplePoweredProvisions today, but made the most of it.
📚 Half-Price Books trip on the way home from church.
📚 Is there something like Calibre ebooks (for ebook management) that isn’t such a hot mess?
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Me: “want to listen to our book, like an Ettin?”
Spouse: “yes”
(we both wore one earbud.)
🕊️📚 Double-preordering this Advent book from the incredible Shannon Walker Dycus: The Holy in the Night - Herald Press. You should too!
📚 Finished Reading: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
Seemed like a solid idea, but just ended up feeling silly. (And not in a good Monty Python way.)
📚 Finished The Far Reaches short stories.
Sci-fi to open the mind.
I recommend the stories by: James S. A. Corey, Ann Leckie, John Scalzi.
Unfortunately only available on Amazon.
📚 New high on the readwise.io leaderboard.
📚 Finished Reading: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
If you read Song of Ice and Fire and thought “this is good, but I wish George R. R. Martin had a plan”, then this is the series for you.
📚 Finished Reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang
Recommended
Language, philosophy, secret societies!
May suffer slightly from backporting more recent conceptual framings, but that just makes me want to go finish Dawn of Everything. So still a win.