Oopsie!
I made a big boo-boo on my Fourth Wing post...making it sound like I finished ALL BUT ONE of the books I started, when it was just the opposite. Re-read the new opening paragraph on the site and you'll see what REALLY happened!
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Tearing Down and Building Up
Cleaning Up My Mac (None of the links in this article are affiliate links (though the Medium links below are member-only articles), and nothing here was created with AI.) I opened my Medium newsletter the other day and was confronted with three or four links to articles about what
The Sixteenth Book of 2026: Inventing The Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, by Ada Palmer
Read from March 25 to May 19, 2026 This book was part of my experiment in reading multiple books at a time. It’s a big book, and I needed a break from it at times. But I think its role in the experiment was a success. Inventing The Renaissance
The Fifteenth Book of 2026: The Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay, by Martha Wells
Read May 14 to 16, 2026 It’s always fun returning to Murderbot’s universe, at least as long as I don’t have to live there. The latest book starts out more in medea res than almost anything I’ve ever read. I was more than an hour in
The Fourteenth Book of 2026: Killing Eve: Medusa, by Luke Jennings
Read May 12 - 14, 2026 When I finished the Agatha Christie biography I thought I would devote all my reading time to Inventing The Renaissance. The publishing industry had other plans, however, releasing two entries in two of my favorite series, one close on the other’s heels. Medusa is