To read a book for the first time in one’s maturity is an extraordinary pleasure, different from (though one cannot say greater or lesser than) the pleasure of having read it in one’s youth.


— Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature


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I was an adventurer, a traveler, a magic student; God, I was whole. drunk on words for hours….being pulled out at twilight by my mother’s voice, calling me for dinner. eating in a daze, sneaking back up the stairs to fall back in love. minutes and hours and midnight…falling asleep, book clutched in my hand.


you want to know what I’m missing?


when time was our friend.


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Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)


  1. What Child is This?, Bonnie MacBird
  2. Make Something Wonderful, Steve Jobs
  3. Blood, Sweat & Chrome, Kyle Buchanan
  4. Starfish, Peter Watts

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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Here’s what I read last week (rather over the past couple of weeks)


  1. An Oral History of Lilo & Stitch, Bilge Ebiri
  2. The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough
  3. The Grass Crown, Colleen McCullough
  4. Art in the Blood, Bonnie MacBird
  5. Unquiet Spirits, Bonnie MacBird
  6. The Devil’s Due, Bonnie MacBird
  7. The Three Locks, Bonnie MacBird

The rest of this year’s list is here:
https://janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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1b18064dbaa37dd2.pngAmazon has amazing reading instructions for this book, I’m perusing …


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Here’s what I read last week


  1. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
  2. The Shore Road Mystery (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon
  3. Slide:ology, Nancy Duarte
  4. Resonate, Nancy Duarte
  5. The Heart to Start, David Kadavy
  6. The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene

The rest of this year’s list is here:
janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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Here’s what I read last week


  1. Ignore Everybody, Hugh MacLeod
  2. How to Write a Book, David Kadavy
  3. The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew), Carolyn Keene
  4. Hunting For Hidden Gold (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon

The rest of this year’s list is here:
janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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If people ask me how long was I sick, I’ll tell them it was a little longer than it took me to read A Song of Ice and Fire


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Here’s what I read last week


  1. A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
  2. A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
  3. A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin
  4. Python Concurrency with asyncio, Matthew Fowler

The rest of this year’s list is here:
janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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Here’s what I read last week


  1. The Missing Chums (The Hardy Boys), Franklin W. Dixon
  2. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
  3. A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin

The rest of this year’s list is here:
http://janusworx.com/reading/#2023


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