Tag: Reading

15 posts

The Last Question; A Short Review

A short review of Isaac Asimov's The Last Question: the story that has lived rent free in my head for years.


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marko.tech
marko.tech
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Jun 24, 2026

Me too rat! 🐀

Not gonna lie, I think it would be very fun to get a variety of paintbrushes and masturbate with them! And for science, I would need to know if a No.4 camel-hair paintbrush would also make me emit a series of subsonic squeaks!


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Valerie Rayne
valerierayne.pckt.blog
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Apr 1, 2026
I'm Clearly Germaine... 📖

I'm Clearly Germaine... 📖

I've been working on checking off books that have been on my to-be-read list for years. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller is being a seriously challenging read - not as bad as Fanny Hill but still pretty hard! This paragraph had me laughing out loud and I literally had to read it out loud to The Boyfriend so someone could laugh with me. I also very much enjoyed when he was describing the prostitute Germaine and felt like if I were a 1930s prostitute, I'd be just like her - in the words of a moder...


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Valerie Rayne
valerierayne.pckt.blog
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Mar 30, 2026

The Hobbit - Chapter 3

A very short rest indeed.

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Jan 28, 2026

The Hobbit - Chapter 2

Dungeons, dragons later.

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Jan 28, 2026

The Hobbit - Chapter 1

Getting back into books at long last.

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Jan 28, 2026
Ghost 6.0 Ships with ActivityPub Support

Ghost 6.0 Ships with ActivityPub Support

Ghost, the popular open source competitor to WordPress and Substack, offers a new release with ActivityPub support.


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We Distribute
wedistribute.org
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Aug 5, 2025

Macbeth (1623, 2025)

Reading Macbeth, and then seeing Macbeth. This isn't a theatre, I'm allowed to call it Macbeth.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Apr 23, 2025

Now: 3 - 9 March 2025

Confronting my own dumbness, and also confronting my susceptibility to the Algorithm.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Mar 9, 2025

Now: 6 - 12 January 2025

Our one Cold Week of the year saw me finishing my book and watching too much YouTube. At least I'm running consistently again.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Jan 12, 2025

Now

A visit to a bothy, listening to heavy music, finishing a tv series, a 5k PR, housework.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Jan 5, 2025

Norwegian literature

I'm going to read some Norwegian books!


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Dec 5, 2023

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

A book report on a short horror story for Halloween.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Oct 31, 2023

Weeknotes 7 August

Quiet one round our end.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Aug 13, 2023

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Started reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys, one day at at time.


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Charles Harries
charlesharri.es
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Jan 3, 2023