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Themes ↦ Writing

author, premise or hype

New-to-me Authors Read in 2025

A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?

A time capsule

Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time

A list of books I'd love to read again for the first time, that didn’t just entertain me, but woke something up too.

Reflections on A System for Writing How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas Think Wildly and Write Constantly

My reading notes collected across multiple sessions with this book—the parts that made me pause, the concepts that remained, the connections that emerged later.

Reflections on Great Founders Write

Reflections and marginalia from reading this book over time—focusing on what persisted in memory rather than comprehensive summary.

Reflections on The Friend

Observations and notes from reading this book over time—the passages that demanded attention, the ideas that persisted, the questions it raised.

Reflections on Wild Mind: Living The Writers Life

Reflections and notes collected from reading this book—what struck me in the moment, what stayed with me over time, what brought me back.

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