#reading-log — Public Fediverse posts
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I read all the manga last month, so my reading log has some volume for the first time in awhile! Hurray! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
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I read all the manga last month, so my reading log has some volume for the first time in awhile! Hurray! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
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My mini-reviews of Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman and Killing Eve: Medusa are up at my blog, The Recliner:
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My mini-reviews of Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman and Killing Eve: Medusa are up at my blog, The Recliner:
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My previous post might have had a bad link...
My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Leoni Swann's Three Bags Full, Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, and Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard.
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My previous post might have had a bad link...
My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Leoni Swann's Three Bags Full, Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, and Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard.
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My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Three Bags Full, Five Little Pigs, and Black River Orchard.
https://the-recliner.ghost.io/ghost/#/posts/analytics/69f7bd8b3c8ac10001364469
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My Books of April review roundup is up at The Recliner. I look at Three Bags Full, Five Little Pigs, and Black River Orchard.
https://the-recliner.ghost.io/ghost/#/posts/analytics/69f7bd8b3c8ac10001364469
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I have a book review to write as well, but for now I've finished my #ReadingLog for April. I'm mostly doing them for myself, but it's still always nice to get a few comments from people who enjoy knowing what I've read--it really does make the process more fun and adds a bit of socialization to the mix.
Hope you enjoy it!
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I have a book review to write as well, but for now I've finished my #ReadingLog for April. I'm mostly doing them for myself, but it's still always nice to get a few comments from people who enjoy knowing what I've read--it really does make the process more fun and adds a bit of socialization to the mix.
Hope you enjoy it!
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This is very late, but I wrote it at least! That's something at least!
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This is very late, but I wrote it at least! That's something at least!
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#reading update:
Just finished: Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou
(enjoyed this one a lot!)Currently reading: System Collapse by Martha Wells (7th murderbot book -- clearly, a series I'm here for)
Next read: The Stardust Grail - Yume Kitasei
What's everyone else enjoying reading??
#ReadingCommunity #ReadingLog #Reading #books #Bookstodon #book #reads
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#reading update:
Just finished: Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou
(enjoyed this one a lot!)Currently reading: System Collapse by Martha Wells (7th murderbot book -- clearly, a series I'm here for)
Next read: The Stardust Grail - Yume Kitasei
What's everyone else enjoying reading??
#ReadingCommunity #ReadingLog #Reading #books #Bookstodon #book #reads
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I'm back from my unplanned #ReadingLog hiatus! Hurray! Not that I really read anything in February, but at least I wrote about what I *did* manage to finish.
Will try again now that's March. Hoping that the warmer weather will make me feel better in a lot of ways that are conducive to reading more frequently. That really would be super.
Anyway, enjoy!
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I'm back from my unplanned #ReadingLog hiatus! Hurray! Not that I really read anything in February, but at least I wrote about what I *did* manage to finish.
Will try again now that's March. Hoping that the warmer weather will make me feel better in a lot of ways that are conducive to reading more frequently. That really would be super.
Anyway, enjoy!
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“In the villages of the Iroquois, land was owned in common and worked in common. Hunting was done together, and the catch was divided among the members of the village. Houses were considered common property and were shared by several families. The concept of private ownership of land and homes was foreign to the Iroquois.”
A People’s History of the United States by #HowardZinn
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7aa535e-143b-4be1-b9d3-a1f0b127981
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“For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.”
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 by #NealeDonaldWalsch
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2279adf7-b14d-429d-bcd6-de53ceda8e97
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Currently reading: Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski & The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
Recently finished: The Everlasting by Alix Harrow & Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Next in the queue: Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood
What's everyone else #reading???
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Currently reading: Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski & The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
Recently finished: The Everlasting by Alix Harrow & Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Next in the queue: Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood
What's everyone else #reading???
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"This is why I am continuing my travels - not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die."
Siddhartha by #HermannHessehttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/411b5f52-ed14-4916-828a-4bcd8114089c
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"To hear, one must be silent."
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) by #UrsulaKroeberLeGuin
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/453a1553-b007-47e8-bb64-ef2a55f677ee
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Sawyer’s Reading Log, 2025
This is my first Reading Log.
One nice thing about writing these end-of-year lists is I get to decide if the ways I’ve used to track a medium actually work. This year, I can say I’ve been disappointed by every single book-tracking method I’ve tried. I tried using Notion, Goodreads, Fable, and Storygraph. Each one has annoyances than make them not very fun to use. For 2026, I’ve decided to return to pen and paper, specifically with a little journal I bought in Japan called “Whisky & Reading Time.” We’ll see if that works any better.
Books read in 2025
- Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
- Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves
- Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes
- Service by Sarah Gilmartin
- Good Girl by Anna Fitzpatrick
- Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
- The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas for a Better World
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
- You Didn’t Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney
- A Physical Education by Casey Johnston
- All Fours by Miranda July
- Colored Television by Danzy Senna
- Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Heart the Lover by Lily King
Manga/Graphic Novels read in 2025
- Ducks: two years in the oil sands by Kate Beaton
- Black Lagoon
- Love Bullet
- Dan Da Dan
- Freiren
- Marriage Toxin
- Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
Magazine Rack, 2025
I hear a lot of praise for free-with-library-card services Kanopy and Libby, but I don’t hear enough praise for Pressreader, an app that lets you read newspapers and magazines the same way. Here’s my current list of subscriptions. I’m not necessarily reading every single edition, but I rarely go 2-3 issues without perusing these:
- Bon Appetit
- Digital Camera World
- Dime (Japan)
- Edge
- Esquire
- Foreign Affairs
- Ginza
- ImagineFX
- National Post Canada
- New York Magazine
- PC Gamer
- Poets & Writers
- Popeye
- Prairie Fire
- Retro Gamer
- The Guardian
- The Hollywood Reporter
- The Walrus
- Toronto Life
- Toronto Star
- Wallpaper*
- Wired
- Writer’s Digest
- Writing Magazine
- WSJ Magazine
Blog Roll, 2025
This is a time capsule blogroll of sites I subscribed to via RSS in 2025, organized by loose category. I’m not necessarily looking at these every day.
📰 News:
- Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Spacing
- Alberta Views – The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
- Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
- CBC.ca
- Literary Review of Canada | A Journal of Ideas
- Our World in Data
- Semafor
- The Guardian
- NextDraft
- The Local | In-depth Toronto journalism.
- The Maple
- Toronto Life
- West End Phoenix – Community Newspaper in Toronto
- Political Wire
- The Nation
- The 19th News | An independent, nonprofit newsroom.
- The Walrus
- Dame Magazine
- Slate Magazine
- Spacing | Canadian Urbanism
📚 Magazines:
📗 Journals:
- Granta
- Lapham’s Quarterly
- Maisonneuve
- Believer Magazine
- Electric Literature
- Hazlitt
- Noema Magazine
- Paris Review
- ROOM Magazine
- Literary Hub
- Aeon
🖇️ Linked Lists:
- things magazine
- Dense Discovery
- Futility Closet
- kottke.org
- LinkMachineGo
- Phil Gyford
- swissmiss
- Today in Tabs
- Waxy.org
🪑 Design:
🎮 Games:
💾 Tech
📖 Books:
🎧 Music:
Readwise
I’ve been a Readwise subscriber for a few years now. It’s what I use to read most online text, and an increasing number of digital books. I adore its spaced repetition quotes. It’s the first app that opens on my phone in the morning.
As of this post, I have 99 rss feeds. Many of these are subscriptions to newsletters, not blogs (though really, what’s the difference?)
According to the site, I’ve made highlights to 204 articles/books this year. Considering I have 854 total highlights, I’d say I’ve used the app considerably.
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“Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions–not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?”
- Prelude to Foundation by #IsaacAsimovhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/718089f8-61ed-4dbc-af08-94311e6b626f
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“The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.”
- A People’s History of the United States by #HowardZinn
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7aa535e-143b-4be1-b9d3-a1f0b127981
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"The recognition of impermanence is the key to freedom from fear of remaining forever stuck in a situation, habit, or pattern."
- What Makes You Not a Buddhist by #DzongsarJamyangKhyentse
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e633d7e3-71b6-4f15-b96d-21c5a60d01c3
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“It seems that the majority of men are suggestible, half awake children, willing to surrender their will to anyone who speaks with a voice that is threatening or sweet enough to sway them.”
- The Heart of Man - Its Genius for Good and Evil by #ErichFromm
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f5340da6-0774-4340-9486-d8f0d67f13c4
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at.”
Wisdom for the Way by #BruceLee
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4302a9e8-c392-4692-ac98-45c02b78216d
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at.”
Wisdom for the Way by #BruceLee
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4302a9e8-c392-4692-ac98-45c02b78216d
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📖 reading log: confessions of a concierge by bonnie g. smith
Book Info Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century Franceby Bonnie G. Smith (1985) Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, History LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/1238610/ Acquired from: Capitol Hill Books, Denver, Colorado, USA ($6.50) [see also: Indie Bookstore Visit Log] Started reading: November 6, 2025 Finished reading: TBD Reading Notes: Copyright page says the following: The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability […]https://blog.pixietails.club/2025/11/07/reading-log-confessions-of-a-concierge-by-bonnie-g-smith/
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📖 reading log: my love affair with england by susan allen toth
Book Info My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir by Susan Allen Toth (1992) Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/56906/ Acquired from: Capitol Hill Books, Denver, Colorado, USA ($7.50) [see also: Indie Bookstore Visit Log] Started reading: October 31, 2025 Finished reading: November 4, 2025 Review I picked this up because I nearly bought it from a UBS in Milwaukee a few months ago. It caught my eye again, mostly because I'm planning to go to England for a few months next year AND I adore pre-internet travel memoirs, so I decided to get it! It's a very charming book which focuses mostly on the bits of England that the author enjoyed, mixed in with some memoir-type stuff about her personal life and how it intersected with her visits to England and how that affected her time there. I enjoyed reading about the specific things she likes, as you can tell she REALLY likes them-- but not to the point where it sounds like ass-kissing. I also liked that she said specifically she only likes visiting and doesn't want to move there; often I find that actually living somewhere is way different than being a visitor, often to the location's detriment because now you have to deal with things like sorting trash and paying electricity bills, when really what you want to do is wander around looking at old buildings and eating bacon sandwiches. Having been to England myself several times I recognized a lot of the stuff she was talking about, and that was fun, too. Overall I really enjoyed this book! Reading Notes Page 9: I do not blame the English. If they keep to themselves, I also keep to myself. At home in America, I guard my privacy, cherishing the easy and congenial company of my husband or quiet time alone. When I am in England, I need even more meditative space. Since I travel quite intensely, looking and listening and walking hard, at night I am ready to stop. I have to absorb what I experience and gather my energies for the next day. I want to sink into bed with a book, not traipse down to the pub to talk about politics or football. So I do not usually make social overtures. Same!! […]https://blog.pixietails.club/2025/11/05/reading-log-my-love-affair-with-england-by-susan-allen-toth/
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Which app do you use to track the books you’re currently reading and the ones you’ve already finished? #apps #ReadingLog
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Which app do you use to track the books you’re currently reading and the ones you’ve already finished? #apps #ReadingLog
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one 20 year old photo printer and one (probably) 20 year old sticker maker, and now I have some covers to put in my reading log (^_^) #amReading #readingLog #DIY #stickers
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one 20 year old photo printer and one (probably) 20 year old sticker maker, and now I have some covers to put in my reading log (^_^) #amReading #readingLog #DIY #stickers
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reading log: enemy feminisms by sophie lewis
Book Info Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (2025) Genre: Nonfiction LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/32671363/ Acquired from: Library (ebook) Started reading: October 8, 2025 Finished reading: TBD Reading Notes 0%: Started reading this to give my brain a little workout and so far it's working! This is also the first ebook I'm doing a reading log for, and I haven't decided how to mark down the annotation locations. Based on how my KOreader Sync plugin downloads things (eg without percentages), looks like it's gonna be grouped under chapter titles. […]https://blog.pixietails.club/2025/10/10/reading-log-enemy-feminisms-by-sophie-lewis/
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Health continues to be a battle, but I wrote up my September #ReadingLog despite it all. I only read four books, so it didn't exactly take that long, but I digress. I really hope I find more joy in October. This person needs a break.
At least my eye continues to heal and my super expensive birthday test did in fact show what the doctor thought it would, which means I probably have non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and not RA. Practically speaking this doesn't change much, but my medications will probably be adjusted to something more suitable for that after my eye has healed more. Doctor didn't want to do it today to avoid causing additional stress to my body and negatively affecting my eye recovery--good call honestly.
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Health continues to be a battle, but I wrote up my September #ReadingLog despite it all. I only read four books, so it didn't exactly take that long, but I digress. I really hope I find more joy in October. This person needs a break.
At least my eye continues to heal and my super expensive birthday test did in fact show what the doctor thought it would, which means I probably have non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and not RA. Practically speaking this doesn't change much, but my medications will probably be adjusted to something more suitable for that after my eye has healed more. Doctor didn't want to do it today to avoid causing additional stress to my body and negatively affecting my eye recovery--good call honestly.
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Reading didn't really happen this month, so it only took me like 15 minutes to write up my reading log for August! Thank COVID for it being on time I guess. Happy that I've finished something on time, but I would like to not repeat this experience again. The neurological side effects are really awful. Existence is so boring when you can concentrate on nothing but Instagram reels.
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Reading didn't really happen this month, so it only took me like 15 minutes to write up my reading log for August! Thank COVID for it being on time I guess. Happy that I've finished something on time, but I would like to not repeat this experience again. The neurological side effects are really awful. Existence is so boring when you can concentrate on nothing but Instagram reels.
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📖 reading log: here begins the dark sea
Book Info
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World by Meredith Francesca Small (2023)
Genre: Nonfiction, History
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/work/29433561/book/293129903
Acquired from: Little Free Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Started reading: August 21, 2025
Finished reading: TBD
Bookmark: Powell’s, “Never Lose Your Place”
Reading Log
Page 0: This font size is so small! I thought I’d be able to speed through this book because it didn’t look that big, but with this font size it’s actually probably very long whoops
I do love maps! I’m trying to train myself to use a paper map when I’m out sightseeing, but it’s a bit cumbersome compared to just pulling out your phone. And you’re obviously a tourist if you’re looking at a map (paper, street sign style) which can be a problem in some places. Anyway I’m excited for this book!
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https://blog.pixietails.club/2025/08/21/read-here-begins-the-dark-sea/
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The summer holidays in Japan have started and even though that means I lose out on a whole week of pay because I have an hourly job and almost no paid holidays, it doesn't mean that I had time to write my reading log for July! Hurray!
Please enjoy my summary of all of the review copies that I read last month, as well as my salty commentary on Japanese cozy books with cat covers despite a very clear lack of cats in the book itself.
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My #ReadingLog for June is here at last! Actually, I finished it shortly after the review I wrote on the weekend (the author complimented me on it!!!), but posting them both around the same time felt weird.
It's fairly late, but better late than never!
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I managed to get my reading log out in a timely manner this month. Enjoy!
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I finally wrote my April #ReadingLog! It's another long one, so I hope you enjoy it! I think a lot of the books in April focused on gender and adjacent topics. May is turning out to be the same, so it's clearly something that's weighing on my mind in a pretty significant way lately.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's interesting to see in my reading trends.
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I've decided that the accumulation of reviews of on-line serializations I've done for Mastodon now constitutes a sufficient body of work that it deserves its own web site. Also, posterity, just in case....
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I remembered and forgot several times over the course of the day that I needed to write my reading log for February. Was given a final reminder by logging on and seeing somebody else's reading log for the month!! So here it is, dictated to my phone and edited by my sore fingers. I'm starting to get the hang of this speech to text thing though, so it didn't actually take as long to do as I thought it would.
That's always something to be happy about!
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I managed to pull myself away from organizing my whole entire music library long enough to write my monthly #ReadingLog! I had to add a new category this month, so hopefully the layout is still simple enough to read.