January 2012
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Jan 16th
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“…action scenes are often like sex scenes — they are just hanging there, an...”
– Maggie Stiefvater writing five things about the book The Lock Artist.
Jan 15th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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The final count for books read in 2011: 24 of 40. Fewer than 2010 by 5! Tsk. I will try again for 2012 (3rd time lucky, right?) without choosing books ahead of time; my hope is to not end up with a months-long lull again. In 2010, the second half of the year saw very little reading and 2011 had almost a full quarter of …nothing. My books-to-read shelf is, no surprise, still jam-packed. Perhaps...
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“…I’d much rather be someone who tries and fails then someone who makes fun of...”
– Hellbox. Damage. Smelt. Recast.: On Writing (50,000 words in 30 days, this year) Word.  
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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November 2011
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Nov 29th
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Nov 24th
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 17th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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“Notice how you know where you are in the book by the distribution of weight in...”
– Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design In the however-many articles I’ve read about reading, books, ebooks, and reading devices, I don’t think this point has ever been made, not this well, anyway. Love it.
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 8th
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“…the authentic creak of the Victorian stage boards and the gaslit melodrama.”
– Robin Buss, introduction to The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Nov 8th
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Nov 2nd
October 2011
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Oct 28th
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“…and like people who read as the day fails, they didn’t see that...”
– Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 164)
Oct 23rd
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“Key pointed his burned bread at where the old yellow road grader reclined in the...”
– Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 54) Maybe only a single color is named in that sentence (two if you’re fussy about sage) but the whole image is so lush and it wants to feel like a run-on but it isn’t but damn if it doesn’t match the Idaho landscape setting. So good.
Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 5th
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September 2011
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ListenYowza. That is damn near Burial-like. I dig it....
Sep 30th
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“The [Pitilessly Resentful Sophomore] would turn her blinding light on the canon...”
– -Sars, “Beautiful Fools” Dying. laughing. Because: oh college. Also good, “…this sort of dispositional sourness posing as feminism”. !
Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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Listen“Seamonkey” - Moderat Wait for the...
Sep 28th
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fromme-toyou: Pentax 35mm & Kodak Tri-X 400 This.
Sep 27th
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Sep 24th