Reading

An Unplanned Offline Day

No Internet all day, so I cracked open a book. Then another. Then a third. Honestly, it was a nice break from the screen. Turns out it was either a dirty Starlink dish or a loose cable — still not sure which. Either way, it’s working now. I should go offline more often.

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The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

Page 155 of 290

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The Burial Hour

The Burial Hour

Page 76 of 628

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Havoc

Havoc

Page 10 of 256

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I Miss Reading Like I Used To
I read Tugba Kibar's post about never sticking to one book at a time. She's got four going at once, a book club pick, a novel, a classic, something non-fiction. She said she doesn't even like doing it. She just can't stop. I felt that. A few years back, that was me too. Three or four books going at …
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Setting Down My Own White Flag (For Now)
I just read a post by Aaron over at The Disorientation about giving up on the 52 book reading challenge for the year, and it hit close to home. At one point they write, "I'm setting down the white flag, I suppose." I know that feeling. I've tried reading challenges a few different times over the …
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TIL: Foppish

📚 Currently reading: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton — 19% through (p. 55 of 290).I was curious what foppish means. Here it goes…

“Kirke was an ill-informed and rather floppish man who possessed, as if by accident, a superbly logical brain.”

TIL a new word: foppish

foppish adjective

: foolish, silly


: characteristic of a fop

a foppish dressing gown


: behaving or dressing in the manner of a fop

The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

Dan Brown

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The Andromeda Strain

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The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton

Page 38 of 290

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I’m finally reading a book — The Andromeda Strain 📚 by Michael Crichton — on my porch. It is very nice outside.

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Lost in the Holler

Lost in the Holler

2025 · Michael R. West

RJ Burnette leaves New York for his Appalachian hometown, where he uncovers a decades-old murder and confronts a community's code of silence while searching for truth about his family.

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The Midnight Train

The Midnight Train

2026 · Matt Haig

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? The Midnight Train can take you back — to relive the moments that meant most, to see who you really were. For Wilbur, that's Maggie. His honeymoon in Venice. Everything he gave away. A magical time-travelling love story from the world of The Midnight Library.

I love the book, The Midnight Library by the same author. TIL there is a sequel. Gotta read this book one day. via nytimes.com

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Red Mars

Red Mars

2003 · Kim Stanley Robinson

For centuries, the barren landscape of Mars has beckoned humankind. Now, a hundred colonists start a mission to make Mars more Earthlike. They will place satellite mirrors to reflect light, sprinkle black dust on polar caps to capture warmth and melt ice, and drill tunnels into the mantle to create vents of hot gases. Yet, some would fight fiercely to prevent any change to Mars.