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\nFinished reading: Audition by Katie Kitamura 📚
\nThis one confused me so much. It felt like there was a whole section of the book took all the built up tension and skipped forward in time to where everything was just, “cool.” Beautifully written, but I felt so lost.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2026/01/10/finished-reading-audition-by-katie.html","date_published":"2026-01-10T18:30:08+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-10 18:30","date_timestamp":1768069808,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/115872231178562337"]}},{"id":"56816067","content_html":"Sagrada Família
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5729/2025/d44a81e5b1-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2025/02/05/sagrada-famlia.html","date_published":"2025-02-05T11:20:13+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-05 11:20","date_timestamp":1738754413,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113951011530912861"]}},{"id":"56812836","content_html":"Park Güell
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2025/02/05/park-gell.html","date_published":"2025-02-05T10:20:39+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-05 10:20","date_timestamp":1738750839,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113950775297008643"]}},{"id":"47653246","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780593317341/cover.jpg\")
Finished reading: Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 📚 That was a romp. Powerful, political, visceral, yet tender in world only one or two mistakes away from the political and economic world I live in. Anti-carceral. As we all should be.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/10/16/finished-reading-chain.html","date_published":"2024-10-17T02:28:49+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-17 02:28","date_timestamp":1729132129,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113320403430335071"]}},{"id":"47597937","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780802162953/cover.jpg\")
Finished reading: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger 📚Leif Enger’s use of language — especially metaphor — is mesmerizing and humbling. I found myself jealous of his ability to describe the world in a language so rich and illustrative, yet still within the bounds of the character.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/10/16/finished-reading-i.html","date_published":"2024-10-16T12:17:27+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-16 12:17","date_timestamp":1729081047,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113317056639133753"]}},{"id":"46611391","content_html":"Future home of the living god: bangersandmash.ca
","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/10/01/future-home-of.html","date_published":"2024-10-01T14:48:36+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-01 14:48","date_timestamp":1727794116,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113232715373467177"]}},{"id":"46427941","content_html":"Currently reading: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich 📚\n\nVery promising start to this one. So far Erdrich is weaving a strong tale of characters which overlapping tensions and stakes. The cataclysm hinted at hasn’t fully revealed itself, but the minefield of family relations is lovingly given ... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/28/currently-reading-future.html","date_published":"2024-09-28T14:47:36+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-28 14:47","date_timestamp":1727534856,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113215724450940796"]}},{"id":"46426436","content_html":"Finished reading: The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn 📚\n\nI loved the conceit of this novel. Constructing a story through fragmentary glimpses into life on an interstellar ship via snippets of info you’re to piece together form HR exit-interviews. But this was a novel of absenc... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/28/finished-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-09-28T14:13:35+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-28 14:13","date_timestamp":1727532815,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113215590820011626"]}},{"id":"46352298","content_html":"Currently reading: The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn 📚
\n![\"Cover](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5729/2024/theemployees.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/27/currently-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-09-27T11:34:01+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-27 11:34","date_timestamp":1727436841,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113209301042026249"]}},{"id":"46296287","content_html":"Finished reading: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚\n\n⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this was incredible. The characters, the world building, the way that Kushner weaves the history of Neanderthals and homo sapiens into a story about inherited, adopted, and chosen personal, regional, and political identities, values, and loyal... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/26/finished-reading-creation.html","date_published":"2024-09-26T15:52:48+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-26 15:52","date_timestamp":1727365968,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113204656505983767"]}},{"id":"45765830","content_html":"Finished reading: On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane 📚\n\nI tore through this book. Looked forward to the end of my day when I could get back to it. It was weird, quirky, charming, openly-laughing-in-front-of-other-people-funny. Yet the ending left me wanting. It felt rushed. Still, I highly recom... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/18/finished-reading-on.html","date_published":"2024-09-18T20:26:22+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-18 20:26","date_timestamp":1726691182,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113160433625099617"]}},{"id":"45344057","content_html":"Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People: bangersandmash.ca
","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/12/future-possibilities-data.html","date_published":"2024-09-12T13:03:53+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-12 13:03","date_timestamp":1726146233,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113124719688228580"]}},{"id":"44838914","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780593538258/cover.jpg\")
Finished reading: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/09/04/finished-reading-land.html","date_published":"2024-09-05T01:49:55+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-09-05 01:49","date_timestamp":1725500995,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113082433974230472"]}},{"id":"44668604","content_html":"Currently reading: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang 📚
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Currently reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚
\nOn the recommendation of a friend. The concept of AFs is really interesting. Ishiguro is really giving some complex ethical questions a lot of room to breathe. So far, so good
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/28/currently-reading-klara.html","date_published":"2024-08-28T20:49:20+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-28 20:49","date_timestamp":1724878160,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113041615232164237"]}},{"id":"44232197","content_html":"Currently reading: The Future by Naomi Alderman 📚\n\nReally enjoying this end-of-the-world exploration of power, privilege, and technology. My brain is having trouble accepting just home powerful some of the technology is (\\verging on deus ex machina at times), but overall this has been really enjoyable so f... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/26/currently-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-08-26T16:17:09+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-26 16:17","date_timestamp":1724689029,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113029220383942089"]}},{"id":"44231549","content_html":"Commit to telling the story in the age of streaming: bangersandmash.ca
","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/26/commit-to-telling.html","date_published":"2024-08-26T16:07:19+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-26 16:07","date_timestamp":1724688439,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/113029181650095769"]}},{"id":"43747476","content_html":"Finished reading: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey 📚\n\n\nI enjoyed this one so much that it became a mealtime topic of conversation with my wife. Eventually, she had to tell me to shut up about it because she probably wants to read the book now. I really enjoyed the way that this one peeled back the ethical iss... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/18/finished-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-08-18T22:34:16+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-18 22:34","date_timestamp":1724020456,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/112985404902891076"]}},{"id":"43448164","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781429963602/cover.jpg\")
Finished reading: Redshirts by John Scalzi 📚
\nThis lost me in the middle, but I persevered. Last chapter went some way to making amends. Won’t re-read, but wouldn’t mind if it ended up as a mini-series somewhere.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/13/finished-reading-redshirts.html","date_published":"2024-08-13T22:23:01+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-13 22:23","date_timestamp":1723587781,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@bangersandmash/112957048900605491"]}},{"id":"43146439","content_html":"Currently reading: Redshirts by John Scalzi 📚
\n![\"cover](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5729/2024/media.jpeg\")
Coming back to Scalzi after a bit of a break. Loved the The Interdependency series and am hoping to bask in a bit of an irreverent and sarcastic take on the tropes that make speculative fiction so wonderful to read.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/08/currently-reading-redshirts.html","date_published":"2024-08-08T17:05:35+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-08 17:05","date_timestamp":1723136735,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"43146440","content_html":"Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚\n\nThis book changes shape as it goes. I thought I’d known it, seen it before as I read through the opening chapters. But, as Zoey notes somewhere along the path, a humanity I didn’t expect took over the story and left me somewhere I didn’t expe... bangersandmash.ca","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/06/finished-reading-sea.html","date_published":"2024-08-06T22:38:23+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-06 22:38","date_timestamp":1722983903,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"43146441","content_html":"![\"Cover](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fi.cbc.ca%2F1.6284376.1639430735%21%2FfileImage%2FhttpImage%2Fimage.jpg_gen%2Fderivatives%2Foriginal_1180%2Fbook-cover-sea-of-tranquility-by-emily-st-john-mandel.jpg\")
Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
\nJust started today. This is my “cottage book” for August 2024. Hoping for great things!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/08/05/currently-reading-sea.html","date_published":"2024-08-05T19:14:35+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-08-05 19:14","date_timestamp":1722885275,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"43146442","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781250847690/cover.jpg\")
Currently reading: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/07/18/currently-reading-rakesfall.html","date_published":"2024-07-18T22:11:57+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-18 22:11","date_timestamp":1721340717,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"43146443","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780008708801/cover.jpg\")
Currently reading: The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/07/18/currently-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-07-18T22:11:50+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-18 22:11","date_timestamp":1721340710,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"43146444","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781250875389/cover.jpg\")
Currently reading: The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://bangersandmash.ca/2024/06/30/currently-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-07-01T02:57:03+00:00","author":{"name":"jeff newman","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbangersandmash%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bangersandmash"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-01 02:57","date_timestamp":1719802623,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}