Reading Log
2026
- Whipping girl [2nd ed.] (2016), Julia Serano.
- How to keep house while drowning (2020), KC Davis.
- Semicolon: The past, present, and future of a misunderstood mark (2019), Cecelia Watson.
- Living with the reality of dissociative identity disorder (2014), Lady Xenia Bowlby & Deborah Briggs.
- In the land of invented languages (2009), Arika Okrent.
2025 (43 books)
21 library books, 16 eBooks, 6 from friend or personal bookshelves.
14 September - 27 December (12 books)
- More than words: How talking sharpens the mind and shapes our world (2025), Maryellen MacDonald.
- You deserve a tech union (2023), Ethan Marcotte.
- Jazz theory: From basic to advanced study (2014), Dariusz Terefenko.
- The art of brevity (2023), Grant Faulkner.
- Black skin, white masks (1952), Frantz Fanon. [2023 translation by Richard Philcox.]
- Bullshit jobs (2018), David Graeber.
- Birding to change the world (2024), Trish O'Kane.
- ¡Dichos!: The wit and whimsy of Spanish sayings (2019), Joseph J. Keenan.
- The housemaid's complete guide (1851), A. M. Sargeant.
- The expert maid-servant (1904), Christine Terhune Herrick.
- The afterlife of Malcolm X (2025), Mark Whitaker.
- Eat the ones you love (2025), Sarah Maria Griffin.
20 July - 13 September (10 books) [50 hours, 7 minutes]
- Light from uncommon stars (2021), Ryka Aoki.
- How women made music: A revolutionary history from npr music (2024), Alison Fensterstock & Ann Powers.
- 3 shades of blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool (2024), James Kaplan.
- How to write a song that matters (2022), Dar Williams.
- We refuse: A forceful history of black resistance (2024), Kellie Carter Jackson.
- Macromedia flash cartoon animation: Learn from the pros (2002), Kevin Peaty & Glenn Kirkpatrick.
- Darkwater (1920), W. E. B. Du Bois.
- Herding cats: A strategic approach to social media marketing (2014), Andrew Rohm and Michael Weiss.
- The united states governed by six hundred thousand despots: A true story of slavery (2024), John Swanson Jacobs.
- Justice-doing at the intersections of power: Community work, therapy and supervision (2019), Vikki Reynolds.
1 January - 20 July (21 books)
- Leviathan (2009), Scott Westerfield.
- Computer-aided architectural design (1977, 1979), William J. Mitchell.
- If then: How the simulmatics corporation invented the future (2020), Jill Lepore.
- Yume (2021), Sifton Tracey Anipare.
- Sketching manga-style vol. 1: Sketching to plan (2007), Hikaru Hayashi, Takehiko Matsumoto, and Kazuaki Morita.
- Empire of the sum: The rise and reign of the pocket calculator (2023), Keith Houston.
- Wars of Latin America: 1899-1941 (2006), René De La Pedraja.
- NeXTSTEP user interface guidelines (1993), NeXT Computer Inc.
- Mac OS 8 human interface guidelines (1997), Apple Computer Inc.
- Macintosh human interface guidelines (1995), Apple Computer Inc.
- Sympathy for the traitor: A translation manifesto (2018), Mark Polizzotti.
- Running a thousand miles for freedom (1860), William and Ellen Craft.
- A strange disappearance (1879), Anna Katharine Green.
- The story of jazz (1958), Marshall W. Stearns.
- Birdgirl: Looking to the skies in search of a better future (2022), Mya-Rose Craig.
- The flash webisode production handbook (2002), John Moore.
- Life as no one knows it (2024), Sara Imari Walker.
- Floppy: Tales of a genetic freak of nature at the end of the world (2023), Alyssa Graybeal.
- The other valley (2024), Scott Alexander Howard.
- Drawing on the right side of the brain [4th Ed.] (2012), Betty Edwards.
- Iola Leroy: Shadows uplifted (1892), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.