"BookTok Made Me Read It!"
A 2023 reading retrospective.
Read MoreEntertainment For the End Times: The Best Stuff I Read, Watched, and Listened To in 2021
Here are the best things I read, watched, and listened to in a vain attempt to stave off my ever-growing sense of existential dread and detachment from reality. Enjoy them all now before it’s too late.
Read MoreSome Cannibals, a Businessman and a Witch Walk Into a Room, Or: My Year in Books
Last year, in an attempt to do a little digital detox, I made a goal to read a book a month. Unlike previous goals such as “don’t eat cookies literally every day,” reading was easy to stick with—so I’ve kept up the tradition and almost doubled my books read count in 2019. Here are the books that graced my nightstand this year (and which ones I’d urge you to read too).
Read MoreA Book-of-the-Month Club to Cure Your Existential Dread, Or: The Best Books I Read in 2018
At the end of 2017, I realized I was often falling asleep with a terrible sense of anxiety as I worried about the devastating, soon-to-be-felt effects of climate change, the uncertain future of women’s and minorites’ rights in Trump’s America, and why only 20-some people had liked my latest Instagram post even though it’d been up for half a day. It’s a terrible time to be alive.
Reducing screen time seemed like the only reasonable course of action, so I made a goal to read at least one new book a month in 2018. Turns out I’m still a nerd, and I ended up easily burning through at least two books a month. Here’s what’s been sitting on the nightstand (or coffee table, or toilet tank).
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