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January 31, 2025 Books

DNF: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders 📚

The writing is fine and the world-building is interesting. It just didn’t grip me. Moving on.

Up next 1738350898000 Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚 1738351161000 DNF: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚 A classic case of “This book could have been a blog post.” Or a series of articles, to be fair.

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