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Another month, and again feeling like there was not enough read. This, to quote The Mandalorian, is the way. Here’s how it broke down: ReadWhy We Get Sick: The hidden epidemic at the root of most chronic diseases — and how to fight it – Benjamin Bikman, PhD Started and stoppedThe Carlin Home Companion – … Read more

It’s not often I read a book that makes me drastically rethink things. This was one of them. If you’d rather skip a summary of the book, just jump down to the TL;DR bit at the bottom of this post. If you’d like some insight into the sometimes deep dive biological science it covers, read … Read more

Short and sweet, to the point where it’s not even worth it to write it in list form: I finally finished Telling Lies for Fun & Profit by Lawrence Block, and just started A Carlin Home Companion, Kelly Carlin’s autobiography about growing up as the only child of comedy legend George Carlin. So far it’s … Read more

The end of the year? Already? I’m curious if that’s a parent thing or an adult thing or just a subjective thing that has nothing in the least to do with aging. I just remember as a kid how long anything took that I was looking forward to, be it my birthday or the weekend … Read more

Short and sweet: November proved to be a flurry of activity — not the least of which was my getting Covid — which once again put a damper on getting to read as much as I wanted to. I know… you’d think that getting Covid and having to isolate for days would lend itself to … Read more

In my sporadically taking poor notes, I realized today that I’d totally forgotten to include Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott, in my read books of October. It’s another book from a writer offering advice to writers, which I seem to have an endless taste for. That remains the … Read more

I didn’t get to as much reading as I would’ve liked to this month. That’s not remotely new, of course. But the reasoning for it has recently changed. It’s increasingly evident that a) my LCBO job drains an unprecedented amount of both physical and mental energy from me, paired with b) my tending to read … Read more

A short list this month. In fact, scratch that. A non-existent list. September was, for one reason and another, a month when I got zero books or graphic novels completed. Big ol’ goose egg. I’m still reading Rebels by David Liss, which I had just started at the end of August. But I’ve only been … Read more

It’s been a busy month at work, so I’ve gotten to read less than I had hoped. Which, mind you, is pretty much par for the course any month. So it goes with we frustratingly slow readers. ReadThe Millennium Bomb – Ricky LimaThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your … Read more