Finished reading: Borderland edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold 📚
The beginnings of woodland goth. I love it, of course.
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Finished reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚
Great fun with some good insights for the rest of life, not just puzzles.
“…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
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I’m extra psyched about July’s Atlas Obscura Finding Wonder book club pick, The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales. It’s got that perfect new paperback smell and is about the deep ocean, a place that fascinates me. 📚
Currently reading: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs 📚
This is the June pick for the Atlas Obscura book club at Literati. Great fun!
In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚
Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚
🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full review up soon. Lots of good stuff in this book, will be revelatory for some & leveling up for others. 📚
Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan 📚