HeyJaredThe Quiet Archivist (TQA) · Notes From A Reading Life
A quiet archive of books read, films watched, and what stays with us after.
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Reading frustrated but loving it (opens the original)
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Book Clubbing with The Quiet Archivist (opens the original)
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I read it. You read it. Let’s talk about it.Book Clubbing is a weekly conversation about books and the experience of reading them. Mostly fantasy and science fiction, but I wander. There are no ratings, no required reading lists, and no pretending that every book needs to be dissected like a college thesis.The idea is pretty simple: I read books, I think about them, I take notes, I occasionally talk to myself into a microphone—and then I invite you into the conversation.There are a few different
How can ONE series DOMINATE my reading like this? (opens the original)
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Last Argument of Kings (opens the original)
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The Ballad of Black Tom (opens the original)
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