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Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
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I Was Wrong About the New Reeder
Silvio Rizzi’s redesign of his excellent RSS reader into a unified hub for the internet makes RSS feel relevant again
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The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it
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Literacy 2025: Book 5: Starter Villain
John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains
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Literacy 2025: Book 4: Born to be Posthumous
Mark Dery’s comprehensive biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey
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The Only Thing I Liked About The Monkey
The new horror movie based on a Stephen King short story reminded me of when I first read the story, and not in a good way. (Spoilers for the movie)
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Literacy 2025: Book 3: A Man Lay Dead
Ngaio Marsh’s surprisingly modern entry into detective fiction