Ben Bartosik

January 22, 2025

What I'm Reading:
  • Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Adam Greenfield)

  • Faithful Place (Tana French)

  • Great Small Towns of Ontario (Richard Peddie)

What I'm Listening To:
  • Triple Seven (Wishy)

  • Mahashmashana (Father John Misty)

  • Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Shabaka)

What I'm Watching:
  • What We Do In The Shadows (TV)

  • Red Rooms (movie)

November 20, 2024

What I'm Reading:
  • You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them - Richard A. Horsley

  • The Likeness - Tana French

What I'm Listening To:
  • The New Sound - Geordie Greep

What' I'm Playing:
  • Slay the Spire the Boardgame

What I'm Watching:
  • The Penguin

  • Bad Sisters S2

  • Silo S2

August 28, 2024

Took the summer off from my regular reading and instead enjoyed some fiction. Read a couple Tana French novels (this one & this one) and book one of the Malazan series.

Other than that, I've been spending a bunch of time with the kids.

Oh, I also wrote this.

January 19, 2023

Been a wild past few weeks so I haven't really put down any thoughts on here.

  • Throughout the holidays my sister was diagnosed with colon cancer and then had surgery to have that removed. She's doing well and the surgery went great so we're all thankful.

  • As a result of that, my own health anxieties have been elevated and I've had to have a few tests done to ensure I'm clear.

  • I'm in the process of putting some of the essays I've written in the past onto this site. It's a bit time consuming as I have to convert them and make a few edits. Yesterday I put one up that I wrote last year that I quite enjoyed.

  • I'm doing a reading course right now that should inspire more writing on here so hopefully that kicks this habit back into gear.

I haven't really used this for personal updates like this in the past but I thought maybe I'd jot a few down for context.

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