Writing Space
  • The death of cooking has been greatly exaggerated

    February 2, 2023

    A YouTuber I watch occasionally lamented in a recent video that “No one cares about the art of cooking anymore.”  She went on to describe how cooking is a dying art and implies that the lack of home food preparation is a sign of society’s downfall.  It’s not terribly notable that someone in their early […]

  • Bullet Journal

    January 19, 2023

    I know this place is mostly a bookblog but the Venn Diagram of book people and stationary people is basically a circle and I am smack in the middle.  So, of course I am the user of a bullet journal.  What else I am supposed to do with all these adorable stationary supplies I am […]

  • Underchoice

    January 14, 2023

    It’s no secret that I am an American Book Center stan. It’s certainly my favorite bookstore in the Netherlands (the Den Haag location of course) and I spend entirely too much money there.  But each visit is a time investment. The science fiction section is large and well-stocked, so I want to see every title. […]

  • Reading Goals 2023

    January 11, 2023

    New year, new reading goals.  Last year, I set myself several reading goals focusing mostly on the numbers. I wanted various to-be-read lists to be shorter.  (Looking back even further, a few years ago I set myself the goal of cutting my to-read list down to a manageable size. I started with 322 books shelved […]

  • Top Books of 2022

    January 3, 2023

    (Did I finish one last book on NYE so I could check the Bible in at (1)69? Yes.) Here are the best books I read last year, in no particular order: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoThe Appointment by Katharina VolckmerI Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline […]