Author: Jo Walton Finished Date: December 28, 2025 Rating: 5/7 One Sentence Summary: Follows Mor a disabled Welsh teenager who, after losing her twin sister in a magical confrontation with their abusive mother, finds solace in science fiction novels while navigating grief, isolation, and the complexities of magic at
Writings
Hey friends, I pray December and the holidays are treating you well. Here's a quick review of what went up on the site this month—some thoughts on Scripture, a few book recommendations, and the random internet finds that caught my attention. Quick reminder: I'm currently
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell This is one of those beautifully devastating books that's impossible to describe. Yes, at its bare essentials, it's about Jesuits traveling to space and meeting aliens. But it's also about colonialism and pain and romance and asceticism and so
H/T Kottke: Watch Jonas Wolf and three friends sing a choral arrangement of the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in the style of a madrigal. Just in case (like the me of 1 minute ago) you don’t know what that is (although you will recognize it from just
An Advent Reflection
Based on the evaluation of 48 dyslexic subjects ages 11-50, reading 12 texts with 12 different fonts, they determined that reading performance was best with sans serif, monospaced, and roman fonts used in the study. They also found that reading was significantly impaired when italic fonts were used. Use of