Blurt! — Sben

Blurt! — Sben
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Finished reading “The Walking Man” by Jiro Taniguchi (歩くひと by 谷口ジロー). This manga is mostly vignettes of a man walking in a small city, maybe eight to ten pages each, often with a final page as he gets home. It’s very peaceful, essentially no story, just a mellow vibe as he encounters interesting people or things and returns to his life.

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Finished reading The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. This is a rambling look at walking, paths, and sailing, and is also (unexpectedly) a little biography of Edward Thomas. I lost momentum about three quarters of the way through, but managed to recover and finish. Maybe I would have preferred the book to be a little shorter, but on the other hand it resonated with me enough that I bought a copy to have on hand when the library loan ends.

— 1/6/2023 9:29pm ∞
Musing about what it would take to turn the long walk journal into a print-on-demand book.

— 4/23/2021 10:02am ∞
I have now read two apparently-unrelated articles in two days mentioning or featuring the Land’s End–to–John o’ Groats trail, which I had never heard of before.

— 1/20/2024 8:20am ∞
Finished reading Menewood by Nicola Griffith, which picks up where Hild left off. This was another great book, with through-lines of trauma, grief, and becoming true to oneself, and perhaps a secondary theme of disability. Like Hild, I will reread this at some point; I hope she’s able to write the next one in less than ten years.

— 1/17/2024 8:57am ∞
The annual reading report.

— 1/1/2024 9:26am ∞