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\nFinished reading: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre 📚
\nThis book is a triumph of the design of a physical object. It’s so cool. The making-of details are fascinating but the design elevates it.
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\nFinished reading: Perfect by Judith McNaught 📚
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\nFinished reading: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 📚
\nFinished up this series with the kiddo. On to the next!
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\nFinished reading: Mythos l by Stephen Fry 📚🎧
\nIt’s just delightful to hear Stephen Fry read this aloud.
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\nFinished reading: Paradise by Judith McNaught 📚
\nMcNaught is so good at the job.
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\nFinished reading: Her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy 📚
\nThere’s so much to love here. Leela is an amazing heroine fighting to build a writing career in a society that tries to block her at every turn. Her interactions with her Arab family made me curious about my own Levantine relatives, who came to the...
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🔖📝 Read Will Doing “Morning Pages” for 30 Days Make Me More Creative? by Grace Abbott (The Good Trade).
\nI love Abbott’s recommendation to follow your energy rather than holding to a rigid externally-imposed structure.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/07/07/hanging-onto-this-roundup-of.html","date_published":"2026-07-07T10:49:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 10:49","date_timestamp":1783421374,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zkn3ae33mxaxhbmqtwfwnfqe/post/3mq2gntxekq2j","https://www.threads.com/@kimberlyhirsh/post/DafSoNEIOjK"]}},{"id":"93578310","content_html":"@gabz I agree with everyone who says SNES ROM.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/KimberlyHirsh/93578310","date_published":"2026-07-07T10:47:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-07 10:47","date_timestamp":1783421225,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93552702","content_html":"💬📚 “The examples of alba amicorum, zibaldoni, Stammbücher and today’s bullet journals show that sometimes we just start writing in notebooks because it’s something the neighbors do.” Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
\n","summary":"","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/07/06/the-examples-of-alba-amicorum.html","date_published":"2026-07-06T22:29:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 22:29","date_timestamp":1783376985,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zkn3ae33mxaxhbmqtwfwnfqe/post/3mpz5e4rrpf2e","https://www.threads.com/@kimberlyhirsh/post/Dad-CinH4fA"]}},{"id":"93543037","content_html":"My son went to a Dungeons and Dragons camp last week where he painted miniatures. He loved painting them so much that we ended up doing a family mini painting day yesterday. I painted these three.
\n![\"Three](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/17595/2026/e08e42b28b-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2026/07/06/my-son-went-to-a.html","date_published":"2026-07-06T19:17:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 19:17","date_timestamp":1783365436,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zkn3ae33mxaxhbmqtwfwnfqe/post/3mpysrrtbub2t","https://www.threads.com/@kimberlyhirsh/post/DadoY2LHzHY"]}},{"id":"93539406","content_html":"@gabz it is really all that. Also why do you come on the Internet picking a fight?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/KimberlyHirsh/93539406","date_published":"2026-07-06T18:06:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Kimberly Hirsh","url":"https://kimberlyhirsh.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F8984.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"KimberlyHirsh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-06 18:06","date_timestamp":1783361212,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93532411","content_html":"@friede.bsky.social Jaffa cakes?
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\nFinished reading: Deep by Kylie Scott 📚
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\nFinished reading: Lead by Kylie Scott 📚
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\nFinished reading: Play by Kylie Scott 📚
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\nFinished reading: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 📚
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\nFinished reading: Lick by Kylie Scott 📚
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\nFinished reading: His Last Bow by A. Conan Doyle 📚
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