Category Archives: Books

Week Wrap-up: The Wrappening

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Ian

Not going to do a full-on accountability check-in this week, just a general review of the week. I figure I’ll do the nuts-and-bolts accountability thing once a month, which strikes me as a good pace while still allowing me to … Continue reading →

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What I’m Currently Verbing

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Ian

This is all the stuff I’ve been experiencing lately on the media front! It was originally a section of Monday’s post, but it got so long it’s a standalone now. What an exciting time to be alive. ~ * ~ … Continue reading →

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Life Keeps Being Itself

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Ian

I know I said in my last post I’d post later in the week. One week, six weeks, basically the same thing, right? I used to do some good accountability on here, which I think I’ll start doing again. When … Continue reading →

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I’m Back

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Ian

*Sheepishly walks back in, turns on the lights, starts taking chairs down off the tables and getting them set up* Hey all. It’s been a while since I last posted. The world’s been on fire, in one notable case extremely … Continue reading →

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Books and Being Offline

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Ian

*another hot minute passes* *the author wonders just where the hell that phrase originated, anyway* I’ve managed to close a couple of the loops I was talking about in the last post. I finished up both The Birthday of the … Continue reading →

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Updates Most Foul

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Ian

It’s been a while since I posted, so I wanted to just give a general smattering of life updates. For extra fun, this post is being written on my “brand new” Alphasmart Neo 2, the very latest in early-2000s technology.

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Thanksgiving 2018

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Ian

It’s Thanksgiving in the US! Which is heeeeeella loaded, given that it’s founded on a myth that covers up historical atrocities. But I do like the parts of the holiday that encourage reflection and being thankful for what we have. … Continue reading →

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Week Wrap-up: 11 June 2018 – 17 June 2018

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Ian

This last week was actually really uneventful? It was sort of nice. I haven’t written one of these in a while, but I suppose those other weeks will just be lost to time. How sad. Anyway: Still waiting to hear … Continue reading →

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RIP Ursula K Le Guin (1929-2018)

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Ian

I’m not the first to write a post about the passing of Le Guin, and I doubt I’ll be the last. I wrote the below on Wednesday morning, the day after her death was announced.  It was part of my … Continue reading →

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God Damn, I Love Patricia Briggs

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Ian

I mentioned in a write-up a little back about the books sitting in my to-be-read pile that I’d gotten burned out on urban fantasy. There’s a lot of the same characters put in the protagonist roles: men who are (or … Continue reading →

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