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2026.01.05
Below please find my bespoke reading log for the current year. You can also visit my past year-specific reading logs:
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2026.01.04
I'm reading Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang again. [ ↻ 25% ] 📚
Reading with my son at bedtime some nights. (Only once in a while because most nights my bedtime is earlier than his now.)
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2026.01.04
I've been listening to LOWER by Benjamin Booker. 🎵
This is a really solid collection of songs, quite liking it.
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2026.01.04
I stopped reading Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America - with Kate Nelson and Kristen Donnelly by Sean Sherman. [ Did Not Finish ] 📚
Need to return to library, but placing on hold again to continue reading later.
This is a cookbook to read all the way through, as much about history and culture and how foodways tie everything together as it is a gathering of recipes
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2026.01.02
I'm playing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. [ ?% ] 🎮
My son received this for Christmas, I decided to try it tonight. Probably will play some more in the future.
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2026.01.02
This is a catalog of minor regrets.
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2026.01.02
ART
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PUNK
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JOY1
strong strokes of white paint on the back of the person’s long coat
walking down 1100 East toward Sugarhouse
drizzly dark January afternoon
cold but not as cold as it maybe should be
(4:03:18 PM - Salt Lake City (40.728079, -111.859654))
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2026.01.02
I'm reading What It Is by Lynda Barry. [ 34% ] 📚
Might try some of the activities in this and/or in Syllabus, but for now I’m just reading through the “essay questions” (blue-paged section.)
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2026.01.01
I want to learn how to take honest photographs with my phone.1 Until then, I just have quick snapshots that I feel inclined to share for some reason.2
This was my walking destination and writing spot yesterday morning.
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2025.12.31
I read On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. 📚
More notes and thoughts on this book and Vuong perhaps forthcoming…