Tag: reading
By embracing multiple formats, I can read more books
Also, physical limitations helped me learn how NOT to be a format snob.
Fall Reading Plans
I've been itching for the start of fall for a while now. And dreaming that the lessening of the light and the drop in the temperature will somehow make me read more.
Recently in August '26
August is now coming to an end and, with it, the summer. This has been an unusually hot summer in the Netherlands, and I'm quite happy we're now approaching colder times. This month wasn't as eventful as I thought it was, but let's recap.
Media Tracking in the ATmosphere
Books, movies, TV and games - so any medias!
Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
Plus a song I wrote, based on one of his stories
Writing for Pleasure
She told me to write so I started writing. Sometimes we need a little bit of encouragement from the people we love to do something for ourselves. Writing has been a thing that I have struggled to do of my own volition for most of my life. Why would I write for myself? It makes...
Falling in love with reading
Over the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion on social media about the decline in literacy. People are quick to find something to blame: smartphones (short-form video content in particular), video games, etc. I don't want to join the chorus of those voices. Instead, I want to share how I fell in love with reading in my late twenties, because until I was 28, I barely read.
Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May
At this rate, maybe I can finish this project someday after all?
We talk about consuming books, as though reading …
We talk about consuming books, as though reading were a kind of nutritional exercise: pages in, knowledge out. But the best reading has never felt like consumption to me. It feels more like entering into correspondence with another consciousness across space and time. A conversation where one voice has the strange advantage of having thought...
Recently in July '26
July was a month full of unexpected events, milestones, and just busyness in general. It's crazy that we're way past the half of 2026, and that we'll be soon -- depending on how you look at "soon" -- embarking into the autumn.
My Favourite Books of 2025
First posted on Blogger 31/12/25
How I Discover Books - by Julie Damerell
Here's a list from @mellendamerell to help get you started
2026 Reading Challenge 📚
I don't usually set myself reading goals or challenge myself to read. However, I got a library card and started using Popfeed to track all my media consumption and jumped onto their 2026 Reading Challenge. I wanted to set a realistic goal for myself. I don't have a ton of time or concentration to read. I tend to read almost entirely in the bath because it's the only place I get quiet and it has the best lighting in my house. There aren't endless opportunities for me to read. Plus, 13 is my favor...
42 books in 15 months
My audiobook reading list since April 2025
Demystifying Reading
Is reading always constructive?
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I Bought a Kurt Vonnegut Collection Because It Reminds Me of My Dead Best Friend
My best friend passed away four years ago this summer. I'd known him since fifth grade. Before he passed we were working on a podcast and a possible book. I still can't watch any videos of him.
Why I have trouble culling my book library
From the archives of Will Write For Chocolate
On lending books: Do YOU still do it?
From the archives of Will Write For Chocolate
#oneaday Day 751: Read/write access
There are a lot of things I don't like about myself, but one of the things that I have always been rather pleased with is my willingness to engage with the English language. A lot of this stems from being encouraged well at an early age, both by my parents and at school, but also...
Book Reading: Henry David Thoreau - Economy
Henry David Thoreau:Walden & On The Duty of Civil Disobedience
Book Reading: Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau:Walden & On The Duty of Civil Disobedience
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.
.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs
TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.
Robotic Arms for the Reading Mind
In which I build a tool to read with me, rather than for me: pdf-gantry, the difference between an arm and an oracle, and the discipline of not asking.
A Little Lit Roulette
I've selected the last couple of books from my shelf at random, and turns out I prefer it
Anna Karenina and Tools that Disappear
On building a morphological highlighter for Anna Karenina, and the implications of cheap, singular software.
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!
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...
Imagining Sam Pickwick as the Writer of Sketches By Boz
A small flight of fancy
Origin Story
Why are you doing this?
Douglas Adams on AI, Before There Was AI
A passage from one of the author’s comic novels of the 1980s clarifies a key user flaw of our AI present
The Hobbit - Chapter 3
A very short rest indeed.
The Hobbit - Chapter 2
Dungeons, dragons later.
The Hobbit - Chapter 1
Getting back into books at long last.
Engaging with the text
Starting a new practice and next iteration of active reading; blazing a path from my digital garden to my physical tsundoku
Trying to like Reading again
I miss being a bookworm
Page-Turner Tunes: Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children”
The first entry in a series on my favorite albums for locking in while reading
At Present Pace ...
A year's-end reminder that the race is long but only against myself
When is a book TOO big?
In terms of sheer size, I’ve finally found my limit with one of my latest reads
Read What You Want
Engagement-based media has worried the concept of performative reading into a trend, and too many are falling for it