changes

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

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

105 / 415

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Turtle Island

This is a really solid collection of songs, quite liking it.

Production just a little edgy and experimental, not overly produced. Love the way the vocals on so many tracks seem almost whispered, but are up front in the mix. “POMPEII STATUES” is the track that came up in the shuffle and has been in my head constantly this weekend.

Another 2025 album I added to my library a long time ago but never really gave attention. I’m giving it attention now.

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

Benjamin Booker AMA : r/indieheads

Standalone post link: Listening Log: LOWER

Reading with my son at bedtime some nights. (Only once in a while because most nights my bedtime is earlier than his now.)

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Babel

I don’t think I can hear a new SAULT album without listening to it a couple of times and then needing to go back through everything they’ve ever done, or nearly everything.

Here’s my SAULT discography playlist in Apple Music.
Here’s the SAULT Bandcamp page .

I think the album 9 needs to be found via youtube bootleg or similar. I did that one time but forgot the details as to why.

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Complete Discography of SAULT (from newest to oldest)

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

Standalone post link: Watching Log: Stranger Things 1

I suggested this title for a PD book club at work and they actually took me up on it!

I’m in kind of a weirdo role in my organization and so it is rare that PD offerings, book clubs, and similar activities align with my actual work and interests, so this was a refreshing change. And the other book we are reading - 5 Kinds of Nonfiction - to be logged here once I start reading it - is also of interest and applicable, not just for my work but maybe even for my secret personal goals of someday actually writing for young people.

So far this is really helpful. I’m learning some things but also getting reassurance that I have an understanding of this already and have made some good collection development decisions with manga (probably thanks to having already read around some of these authors' manga review websites.) In the past few months I’ve also been sampling a lot of manga that middle school students have requested for Sora or that I came across and think might be good to add to Sora. I should start writing reviews and sharing them on our reviews website (granitemedia.org) and/or here, because librarian and educator reviews of manga are sparse.

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

75/200

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Manga Goes to School

Another book I’m happy to read for a PD book club at work.

(See also Manga Goes to School)

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

60/160

Standalone post link: Reading Log: 5 Kinds of Nonfiction

Genre: creation story, mythopoetic science writing, psychedelic illuminated manuscript, nature, life, ecology, Earth, picture book for teens and adults…

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

![[20260119_forgottenteachers-cover.png]]

Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Forgotten Teachers

(Drafted handwritten a review this morning that I will likely finish and post on granitemedia.org and/or here. It’s been ridiculously long since I actually wrote and shared reviews, need to just do it.)

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

![[20260121_coverart_kingoftheneuroverse.png]]

Standalone post link: Reading Log: King of the Neuro Verse

“…what the meaning of this border line that’s been forced into my mind…everybody talk about it like it’s the greatest line that humans could ever draw…”
– Lonnie Holley, from “A Border is Just a Space Between Two Lines”

Related quote I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
– David Graeber, who I apparently need to read.

Album recommended by Benjamin Booker, who I’ve also been listening to a lot and has a song on the album.

I bought a digital copy, with proceeds going to American Gateways and Casa Marianella, and also donated to the following this morning:

Immigrant Rapid Response Fund of the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota

Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

Past Log Updates

DATE :

Resources

Standalone post link: Listening Log: Passages - Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers