Today in I don’t remember why I put a hold on this book but it came in and I did not even read the summary to find out what I was getting into, body horror! Do I normally have absolutely no issues with this kind of thing normally? Yes. Is… Read More »The Hollow Places review
I swear I’ll be going back to fiction soon, but a bunch of nonfiction has been coming in lately and I need to get through them all first! This one I’ve picked up pretty much directly as a result of my recent health issues, and the difficulties I’ve had about… Read More »Invisible Kingdom review
Every once in a while, I will read books on purpose and not just because I randomly saw it in a search and figured that might be an interesting thing to read. For those who don’t know, I work in tech as a product designer and UX… everything lately, let’s… Read More »Design Justice review
You know what’s annoying? When you keep reading books that seem to keep calling you out specifically in weird ways. And let me tell you, it’s worse when that book is a fiction book that is about robots and tea and somehow it still manages to get in your head… Read More »A Psalm for the Wild Built review
Today in books that I was recommended by mentors that seem like they are chosen very specifically to call me out, another career book of trying to try and help me figure out how to specialize in my field and instead has seemed to push me over the edge toward… Read More »Body of Work review
Today in books that mentorship has directed me to, the updated version of a book I read back in 2020 when I lost my job! It’s 2 years later and I’m in a very unstable and uncertain industry, and currently undergoing through a process of trying to figure out how… Read More »What Colour is your Parachute 2023 review
I have been staring at this book at every Pulp Lit event for ages and I have finally gotten around to reading it! It looked like it was going to be so much fun and there’s a sequel now, so I figured it was time to finally get my hands… Read More »Stella Ryman and the Fairmont Manor Mysteries review
I should not read a second book by a nonfiction author, I’m realizing. First was Nir Eyer, and now Cal Newport. I end up just looking at these books through the context of their last one. Where Deep Work was about how you should be spending your time on good,… Read More »Digital Minimalism review
I’ve gotten a bunch of book recommendations lately, and they all seem to be in a very familiar theme. Apparently I give off the vibe of someone who likes to do a lot and might have a career of doing a lot of things. Which, well, in the past decade… Read More »How to be Everything review
Have I had this book on my TBR forever? Yes. My bad! I got it with the intent to reward myself for finishing the trilogy with reading it and then, well, last year was not the best year for me in general. But I picked this up from a Pulp… Read More »Shadow Stitcher review