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  • More Home Cooking

    I often stumble on authors who write about food, read the book, love it, and then find out that the person is rather well known. This happened with M.F.K. Fisher last year and now it's happened again with Laurie Colwin.

  • The Real World of Technology

    <em>The Real World of Technology</em> by Ursula Franklin is an amazing book. And it's made all the more amazing because the first two thirds of the book are lectures that were given in 1989 and the last third was written in 1999.

  • Silas Marner

    I've long been meaning to read something by George Eliot, and a few weeks back the author interviewed in By the Book mentioned <em>Silas Marner</em> and I knew it was the book I should read to see if I would like George Eliot's writing or not.

  • Ghosts

    If you want a fun afternoon read, pick up <em>Ghosts</em> and think about life and death from a lovely perspective.

  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    There are certain people in my life that when they recommend a book, I usually just trust them and go for it and start reading it. <em>The Mushroom at the End of the World</em> by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is one such book for me.

  • A quiet life in the fog

    He writes there sporadically, but it's always welcome when it hits my feed. And on Monday a post hit my feed and I read it and it's stuck with me since.

  • The Guineveres

    <em>The Guinevers</em> by Sarah Domet was on some end of 2016 book list and I decided to give it a go, not totally knowing what I was in for when I started reading.

  • Resting to be productive

    But in the last several years it's been one thing, more than any other, that has increased my productivity and helped me get shit done. Rest.

  • Front End Style Guides

    Anna Debenham started the new year off by releasing an updated version of her book, <em>Front End Style Guides</em> and I spent some time reading it and highlighting and remembering what it is I love about style guides this week.

  • Passion

    Passion isn't the right word to describe any of this, instead we should find other words to talk about our work.

  • Daily drawing 2017

    I'm doing Jennifer Lewis Orkin's <em>Draw Every Day, Draw Every Way</em> throughout all of 2017.

  • A difficult week

    This week has felt like a hammer hitting me over the head over and over again

  • Swing Time

    <em>Swing Time</em> by Zadie Smith is on almost every single best of 2016 book list I've seen. And I've been gravitating to reading fiction post US election, needing some escape that also may prompt me to think. <em>Swing Time</em> did just that.

  • Hacktivist

    <em>Hacktivist</em> appeared on a list somewhere and I decided to give it a try. I read it through my library and while I'm glad I read it and I liked it enough to keep going to the next volume, I'm not sure I loved it.

  • Resilient Web Design

    Jeremy Keith's talks are some of my favorite I've seen over the course of my career when I've been lucky enough to be at a conference where he's speaking. He's taken a lot of the elements of those talks and put them into a wonderful online book, <em>Resilient Web Design</em>.