2024 ┋ 2025 ┋ faves ┋ storygraph➚ ┋ librarything➚ ┋ raindrop➚

The books, short stories, articles, and blog posts of the year. For books, I post reviews on my StoryGraph and LibraryThing. My Goodreads still exists but it's abandoned. For blogs, I tend to use Mire RSS Reader to read new posts and Raindrop for creating a postroll. ┋ key

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✦⸻ reading

• Las ciudades invisibles by Ítalo Calvino
• Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

✦⸻ concluded

List goes in reverse order; the first is the most recent read.

• fiction ⠀・⠀ Maskerade by Terry Pratchett ▸ second to last book in the Discworld' witches series. not my cup of tea tbh, but always a joy to read Nanny and Granny. 3/5
• weblog ⠀・⠀ what making websites means to me by emma ▸ this is such a beautiful, earnest piece of writing, and it connects so well the importance of self-expression to web-building.
• weblog ⠀・⠀ Don't call it a Substack by Anil Dash ▸ It's your writing, not your Substack. Amazing take on bringing legitimacy to horrible ppl via other ppl's writings.
• comics ⠀・⠀ Ballad for Black Cassandra by Olivia Stephens ✪ ▸ absolutely stunning. The author is also selling it via itch.io and gumroad.
• weblog ⠀・⠀ Active rest by Herman ▸ I came to the same conclusion a while back: "The best form of relaxation isn't consumption, it's creation".
• weblog ⠀・⠀ The Trouble with Using Nostalgia for Comfort ▸ I didn't need this slap in the face today, but alas. Guilty as charged.
• weblog ⠀・⠀ You're a blogger, not an essayist by Barry Hess ▸ what an important read to make when you're on a blog slump.
• fiction ⠀・⠀ Ancestor Heart by Naomi Day ▸ interesting read about ancestrality and hurt.
• article ⠀・⠀ This Page is Designed to Last by Jeff Huang ✪ ▸ I think I'm going through a phase.
• article ⠀・⠀ File over app by Steph Ango ✪ ▸ about longevity of the virtual information.
• article ⠀・⠀ There's no escape from Facebook, even if you don't use it by Geoffrey A. Fowler ▸ explains how Facebook works beyond its apps/sites.
• others ⠀・⠀ A Public Warning: FF7 fandom by demon-sushi ▸ the first and probably already the craziest read of the year. First-hand accounts of the Final Fantasy VII House, a cult-like group led by two women in the early 2000s.