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.
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Listening Log

Top five listened to albums per year, as reported by my MP3 Player.

2025

  1. Constant Companions (Deluxe Edition) - Jamie Paige
  2. 'A Perfect Match - The Taylor/Fidyk Big Band
  3. Cassette Beasts (Original Soundtrack) - Joel Baylis
  4. Technicolor - Covet
  5. Oneiric - Sarah Longfield

2024

  1. Out of It - dogbug (née silly2tilly)
  2. Set Course for Andromeda - Sithu Aye
  3. Destiny 2: Beyond Light OST - Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, Josh Mosser, Michael Sechrist, Rotem Moav
  4. Destiny 2 OST - Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson, Rotem Moav, Pieter Schlosser
  5. Star Trek: Lower Decks Vol. 1 OST - Chris Westlake

2023

  1. Steven Universe: Season 5 (Original Television Score) - Aivi & Surasshu
  2. Steven Universe: Season 1 (Original Television Score) - Aivi & Surasshu
  3. CRY - Knasibas
  4. The End of Everything - Plini
  5. Steven Universe: Season 4 (Original Television Score) - Aivi & Surasshu
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