I'm back from my unplanned #ReadingLog hiatus! Hurray! Not that I really read anything in February, but at least I wrote about what I *did* manage to finish.

Will try again now that's March. Hoping that the warmer weather will make me feel better in a lot of ways that are conducive to reading more frequently. That really would be super.

Anyway, enjoy!

https://taylordrew.me/february-2026-reads/

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RE: https://gamedev.lgbt/@renkotsuban/115883048241455426

I've been trying #PageBound and I like the little forums it makes for each book.

My profile: https://pagebound.co/users/pinkbookscoffee

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Currently reading: Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski & The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling

Recently finished: The Everlasting by Alix Harrow & Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Next in the queue: Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood

What's everyone else #reading???

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Sawyer’s Reading Log, 2025

This is my first Reading Log.

One nice thing about writing these end-of-year lists is I get to decide if the ways I’ve used to track a medium actually work. This year, I can say I’ve been disappointed by every single book-tracking method I’ve tried. I tried using Notion, Goodreads, Fable, and Storygraph. Each one has annoyances than make them not very fun to use. For 2026, I’ve decided to return to pen and paper, specifically with a little journal I bought in Japan called “Whisky & Reading Time.” We’ll see if that works any better.

Books read in 2025

• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• The Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
• Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves
• Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes
• Service by Sarah Gilmartin
• Good Girl by Anna Fitzpatrick
• Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
• The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas for a Better World
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
• You Didn’t Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney
• A Physical Education by Casey Johnston
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Heart the Lover by Lily King

Manga/Graphic Novels read in 2025

• Ducks: two years in the oil sands by Kate Beaton
• Black Lagoon
• Love Bullet
• Dan Da Dan
• Freiren
• Marriage Toxin
• Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

Magazine Rack, 2025

I hear a lot of praise for free-with-library-card services Kanopy and Libby, but I don’t hear enough praise for Pressreader, an app that lets you read newspapers and magazines the same way. Here’s my current list of subscriptions. I’m not necessarily reading every single edition, but I rarely go 2-3 issues without perusing these:

• Bon Appetit
• Digital Camera World
• Dime (Japan)
• Edge
• Esquire
• Foreign Affairs
• Ginza
• ImagineFX
• National Post Canada
• New York Magazine
• PC Gamer
• Poets & Writers
• Popeye
• Prairie Fire
• Retro Gamer
• The Guardian
• The Hollywood Reporter
• The Walrus
• Toronto Life
• Toronto Star
• Wallpaper*
• Wired
• Writer’s Digest
• Writing Magazine
• WSJ Magazine

Blog Roll, 2025

This is a time capsule blogroll of sites I subscribed to via RSS in 2025, organized by loose category. I’m not necessarily looking at these every day.

📰 News:

• Spacing | Canadian Urbanism Uncovered | Spacing
• Alberta Views – The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
• Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
• CBC.ca
• Literary Review of Canada | A Journal of Ideas
• Our World in Data
• Semafor
• The Guardian
• NextDraft
• The Local | In-depth Toronto journalism.
• The Maple
• Toronto Life
• West End Phoenix – Community Newspaper in Toronto
• Political Wire
• The Nation
• The 19th News | An independent, nonprofit newsroom.
• The Walrus
• Dame Magazine
• Slate Magazine
• Spacing | Canadian Urbanism

📚 Magazines:

• Monocle
• Them
• Black Nerd Problems
• Bustle
• Byline
• Dazed & Confused
• Defector
• The Cut
• The Face
• Huck

📗 Journals:

• Granta
• Lapham’s Quarterly
• Maisonneuve
• Believer Magazine
• Electric Literature
• Hazlitt
• Noema Magazine
• Paris Review
• ROOM Magazine
• Literary Hub
• Aeon

🖇️ Linked Lists:

• things magazine
• Dense Discovery
• Futility Closet
• kottke.org
• LinkMachineGo
• Phil Gyford
• swissmiss
• Today in Tabs
• Waxy.org

🪑 Design:

• DesignObserver
• We and the Color
• Cool Hunting
• PRINT Magazine
• Core77
• Eye on Design
• Spoon & Tamago

🎮 Games:

• Noisy Pixel – Gaming, Etc.
• Retro XP
• Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster

💾 Tech

• The Verge
• Noisy Pixel
• Daring Fireball
• WIRED
• PetaPixel
• The Enthusiast
• TorrentFreak

📖 Books:

• Queen Books
• Book Marks
• monkeybicycle.net
• The Rumpus

🎧 Music:

• Said the Gramophone
• Fluxblog
• Discogs
• Stereogum
• GORILLA VS. BEAR
• 50% Hipster

Readwise

I’ve been a Readwise subscriber for a few years now. It’s what I use to read most online text, and an increasing number of digital books. I adore its spaced repetition quotes. It’s the first app that opens on my phone in the morning.

As of this post, I have 99 rss feeds. Many of these are subscriptions to newsletters, not blogs (though really, what’s the difference?)

According to the site, I’ve made highlights to 204 articles/books this year. Considering I have 854 total highlights, I’d say I’ve used the app considerably.

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