Posts Tagged ‘listă’
Writing, obsessing & reading. A short review of readings in 2025
I feel I am entering so headstrong into the big, scary, unpredictable times of 2026 that it feels silly now (late January) to write a post about my favorite books from 2025, or what I wrote, or whatever. (…) Last year I wrote more than I ever did in any other year of my life, as in more words AND more as in more time writing AND more as in constantly (weekly, as a practice).
Read MoreA year of reading – Reviewing 2024. Books as companions
In 2024 I’ve wanted to read more books from around the world, and I failed. I read a lot instead (more than a 100 is a lot for me), and a lot of good science-fiction. So this list is
Read More10 speculative fictions I read and loved in 2023
Because I love lists & speculative fiction & remembering what I thought about what I read, I’m making this one – it has no order except kind-of-a-chronological order? And it contains a bit of cheating because the last two I finished in 2024 and
Read MoreRead Palestine: Light In Gaza & Palestinian poems
In the essay “Gaza asks: When shall this pass?” poet and academician Refaat Alareer writes with force and vulnerability about the long-held resilience of Palestinian people, the reliance on saying “it shall pass” from grandmother to mother, transmitted intergenerationally. One form of resistance is storytelling, as he writes:
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