Dansite Reading Journal

Dan Jewett's chronological reading record.

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Book, In Progress
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
by Ursula K. Le Guin

pg.457, “Yet you cannot think of a Gethenian as “it.” They are not neuters. They are potentials, or integrals. Lacking the Karhidish “human pronoun” used for persons in …

Science Fiction
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Book, In Progress
The Book of Disquiet (1982)
by Fernando Pessoa • translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Classic Literature
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Article, read August 27, 2025
Say It, Don't Show It

Substack, August 23, 2025

by Neal Stephenson
Advice Non-Fiction Opinion
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Article, read August 27, 2025
Our Moloch

New York Review of Books, December 15, 2012

by Gary Wills
Non-Fiction Opinion Politics
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Collection, read August 26, 2025
Frog and Toad: Storybook Favorites (1970)
by Arnold Lobel
Short Stories
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Article, read August 25, 2025
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.

Substack, August 13, 2025

by Chris Armitage
Non-Fiction Politics
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Book, read August 20, 2025
A Pale View of Hills (1982)
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction
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Article, read August 19, 2025
A First Time for Everything

New York Review of Books, August 21, 2025

by Sean M. Carroll

Article on the current state of cosmological research.
Books Reviewed:
A Little Book About the Big Bang by Tony Rothman,
An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the …

Science
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Book, read August 19, 2025
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (1928)
by Henry Beston

p.10 The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the …

Memoir Nature Writing Non-Fiction
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Book, read August 16, 2025
Regeneration (1991)
by Pat Barker
Literary Fiction World War I
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Ebook, read August 9, 2025
Slaughterhouse Five: or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut
American Literature Science Fiction World War II
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Book, read August 7, 2025
The Remains of the Day (1989)
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read August 6, 2025
The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read August 6, 2025
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
by John Wyndham
Science Fiction
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Book, read July 31, 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez • translated by Gregory Rabassa
Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Article, read July 27, 2025
The Red and the Green

New York Review of Books, July 21, 2025

by Casey A. Williams

Book reviews:
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto and Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism by Kohei Saito, and Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism …

Climate Crisis Politics Socialsim
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Book, read July 21, 2025
Hell Yeah, or No: What's Worth Doing (2020)
by Derek Sivers
How to Be Non-Fiction
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Play, read July 15, 2025
Oedipus the King (429 BCE)
by Sophocles • translated by David Greene
Classic Literature
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Book, read July 7, 2025
Walking: One Step at a Time (2019)
by Erling Kagge • translated by Becky L. Crook
How to Be Nature Writing Non-Fiction
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Book, read June 23, 2025
Moby Dick: or, The Whale (1851)
by Herman Melville
American Literature Classic Literature Literary Fiction