#reading-log — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reading-log, aggregated by home.social.
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An Essential Reading Log for the Mindful Reader
We've got the best reading log for staying accountable to goals ranging from how much you spent on books to whether you're reading diversely.
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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 Neale Donald Walschhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2279adf7-b14d-429d-bcd6-de53ceda8e97
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“For all the gold & silver stolen and shipped to Spain didn't make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.”
“A People’s History of the US”
by Howard Zinnhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7aa535e-143b-4be1-b9d3-a1f0b1279816
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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 Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentsehttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e633d7e3-71b6-4f15-b96d-21c5a60d01c3
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“The right has turned a movement based on compassion and love into a mean, self-worshiping tax-free clique. The intolerance of right-wing Christianity is what’s driving young people away from religion. It’s not because our youth are controlled by Satan, although the fundamentalists might be.”
Separation of Church and Hate
by John Fugelsanghttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4302a9e8-c392-4692-ac98-45c02b78216d
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"It is only through the exercise of the greatest freedom that the greatest growth is achieved—or even possible. If all you are doing is following someone else's rules, then you have not grown, you have obeyed."
“Conversations with God, Books 2 & 3: An Uncommon Dialogue”
by Neale Donald Walschhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a50d7315-ff58-42af-a5e3-d5268d2b5541
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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 Howard Zinnhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b7aa535e-143b-4be1-b9d3-a1f0b1279816
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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 Neale Donald Walschhttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2279adf7-b14d-429d-bcd6-de53ceda8e97
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“And remember—if your church isn’t telling you to love your enemies but keeps telling you who your enemies are, you’re not really in a church.”
“Separation of Church and Hate”
by John Fugelsanghttps://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4302a9e8-c392-4692-ac98-45c02b78216d
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I wrote a #ReadingLog for all the stuff I read in June. I haven't had much time lately, so the short list trend continues, but it's an interesting collection of different things, so could be interesting for others to check out.
I think July is going to go harder as my mood shifts. I'm already seeing an interesting trend emerge four days in.
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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 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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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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#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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“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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"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