I'm another step closer to being back up to doing real-time monthly reading updates. In June, I managed a lot more reading driven by pleasure and curiosity than last time, and I also varied my formats and genres a bit more, which is one of my overall reading goals for| Caroline Crampton
I'm still playing catch-up with the monthly reading updates. Thus, it is September and I'm still on May. Fingers crossed I meet myself in the present before the end of this year... This wasn't a month that particularly reflected my reading goals for 2025| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
A few photos from August 2025.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
The Polish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Wydawnictwo Czarne, in a translation by Martyna Tomczak. It has a new cover, designed by Liza Korolova: This is my first time seeing one of my books published in translation and I'm completely| Caroline Crampton
A Wikipedia editor has uncovered what looked like a decade-long attempt at self-promotion by a minor American composer, David Woodard. Until recently, Woodard's entry was the most-translated on the entire site, appearing in 335 languages (for reference, the country of Japan only has 334). "This editing pattern| Caroline Crampton
I don't at all understand how this video was made, but I enjoyed flying around a miniaturised Baltic state nonetheless. Source: Kuriositas. You can also get my links by signing up for my weekly link digest, Thursday Thirteen.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
In Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dowager Duchess is always getting her quotations confused. But this isn't a character trait deployed only to indicate absent-mindedness; as this analysis shows, her substitutions generally have something to say about the book's themes. Sayers, as her| Caroline Crampton
Photo: G. L. Kohuth/Michigan State UniversityI promise I am interested in how this new innovation will help to save bees from bacteria, but I am mostly sharing this because of the photo of Maple the detection dog in her beekeeping outfit. You can also get my links by| Caroline Crampton
A thought provoking list. As a perpetual diary-abandoner, I'm trying to let this one inspire me: "I regret that I have never kept a journal, especially in my 20s. Nothing fancy; I just wish I had kept a regular list of what I was eating, who I| Caroline Crampton
I have made no secret of my obsession with pipe organs (my favourite podcast is still Hot Pipes). I am new to Walter Martin's radio show, but I liked his organ episode very much. Episode 48: The Organ Episode It’s time to talk about organs WALTER| Caroline Crampton
I believe I have heaped praise upon data journalism outfit The Pudding before, but I'm doing it again because the design of this piece about the best way to dice an onion is so clever. They made a red onion font! Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.| Caroline Crampton
As promised last time, I'm still slowly catching up on the monthly reading updates I skipped earlier this year. In case you're new here or would like a refresher, when I made my reading goals for 2025 — Reading A Lot, But Differently — I decided to prioritise seeking greater variety and| Caroline Crampton
I've been working hard on breaking my phone addiction since last summer and March was when I finally felt something shift. I stopped wanting to look at my phone and almost all of the time I used to spend on it now went to reading books. I began to get| Caroline Crampton
