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Author Archives: twsobey
Ring and Other Metalwork
I learned to weld in shop class in 8th grade. Two years later, my new shop teacher showed me how to weld well. Working with middle schoolers now, I’m shocked that we ever let any of them near metalworking equipment … Continue reading
A Closed and Common Orbit
Title: A Closed and Common Orbit Author: Becky Chambers Completed: October 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: After finishing The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in the Wayfarers series, I assumed the second book would continue … Continue reading
Potholes and Pavements
Title: Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network Author: Laura Laker Completed: October 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: This book was harder for me to get through than many of the others about infrastructure and … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, Book Review, books, Britain, transportation
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Picks and Shovels
Title: Picks and Shovels Author: Cory Doctorow Completed: Sept 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: This is the third book in the Martin Hench series and having read the first two earlier this summer, I moved onto this one. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, books, fiction, hacker, Reading, Technology
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The Lost Subways of North America
Title: The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been Author: Jake Berman Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: I’ve had one or two people tell me recently that … Continue reading
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Author: Becky Chambers Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: A few years ago I came across A Psalm for the Wild Built. I don’t remember how I found it, … Continue reading
Growing a Farmer
Title: Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land Author: Kurt Timmermeister Completed: August 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: At a recent kid’s birthday party, I was talking with a neighbor about local foods. He has … Continue reading
A Study in Scarlet
Title: A Study in Scarlet (free from Project Gutenberg) Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Completed: July 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: After deciding to keep a fiction book on my phone to read during moments of downtime, I picked a … Continue reading
The F-Word
Title: The F-Word (IV Edition) Author: Jesse Sheidlower Completed: July 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: In May, I was listening to an episode of The Allusionist podcast. Helen Zaltzman is great and her interview with Jesse Sheidlower about this … Continue reading
The Bezzle
Title: The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel Author: Cory Doctorow Completed: July 2025 (Full list of books) Overview: This summer I attended Teardown 2025 where Cory Doctorow presented. When preparing for the event, I found his Martin Hench books and … Continue reading
A Runner's Ramblings 