Paul McCafferty
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  • Finished reading: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:03 PM, Mar 25
  • Finished reading: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:46 AM, Mar 23
  • Finished reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 5:30 PM, Mar 19
  • Finished reading: Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:28 PM, Mar 19
  • Finished reading: Superhuman by Habit by Tynan πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:29 PM, Mar 17
  • Finished reading: The Organised Writer by Antony Johnston πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:24 PM, Mar 15
  • Finished reading: The Outward Urge by John Wyndham πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:34 PM, Mar 12
  • LibraryThing πŸ“š

    On 25th November 2011 I paid the princely sum of $25 for lifetime membership of LibraryThing. At the time I think there was a free membership with a limit on the number of books logged. Although I hadn’t yet reached that limit I wanted to support the developers because I was making good use of the site.

    When I first joined, a couple of years earlier, my need to catalogue things had been there for a while. I stumbled across LibraryThing when I was looking at options for cataloguing books. This was in a world before Goodreads. To begin with, I took some time to try to remember everything I’d read. Of course I must have missed some titles but I’m confident I remembered the most important. Aside from some guessed reading years I think My library is pretty accurate.

    Collections are one way to organise your books. Currently I use collections to differentiate between fiction and non-fiction. I also use them to indicate ownership status and to highlight favourites. LibraryThing also offers tags which I use to record whether a book has been read and if so in what year. I also use tags to identify genre (or subject in the case of non-fiction), format, and what I want to do with a book after I’ve read it.

    It’s always a work in progress though. I like to tinker with the structure and organisation. At the moment I’m cleaning it up (again), ensuring that media for each title is correct, book covers are accurate and publication dates are the original ones. I’m also updating the tags I use.

    Since joining Micro.blog I’ve started to use Epilogue to track books I finish and, following the example of others on Micro.blog and elsewhere on the web, I now have a reading page and another which lists books I’ve finished by year. At some point I’d like to add some sort of rating system.

    It’s over 11 years since I became a lifetime member. I’m very happy with the site and although I’ve been tempted to migrate over to Goodreads a few times I’m very glad I stuck with it - Amazon already owns enough of me and LibraryThing looks more indie web anyway!

    β†’ 3:46 PM, Mar 12
  • Finished reading: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:26 PM, Mar 3
  • It often took me a whole morning of work to write a paragraph.
    A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

    β†’ 6:05 PM, Mar 2
  • It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute by half with water and still receive its message. Ernest Hemingway (from A Moveable Feast)

    β†’ 10:15 PM, Feb 22
  • Shameless plug for my son’s new website! Whilst at University he wrote film reviews for the campus newspaper. Glad he’s continuing with something he enjoys.

    β†’ 9:55 PM, Feb 17
  • When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing that you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was very good to make love with whom you loved. That was better than anything. But afterwards, when you were empty, it was necessary to read in order not to think or worry about your work until you could do it again. I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
    Ernest Hemingway (from A Moveable Feast)

    β†’ 8:54 PM, Feb 16
  • Has anyone read The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer? I enjoyed it, but there’s something about the legal case towards the end that doesn’t make sense πŸ€”πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:39 PM, Feb 15
  • Finished reading: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:20 PM, Feb 15
  • Keep thinking I should be writing something then I wonder what? I need to remind myself I’m on here to write. And I want to write so I can improve my writing!

    β†’ 9:47 PM, Feb 9
  • Finished reading: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:10 PM, Jan 28
  • Finished reading: Chocky by John Wyndham πŸ“š

    β†’ 4:52 PM, Jan 18
  • Finished reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien πŸ“š

    β†’ 11:51 AM, Jan 1
  • Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler πŸ“š

    β†’ 5:18 PM, Dec 30
  • Finished reading: Molly and the Isle of Kasta by Nicholas Bate πŸ“š

    β†’ 12:42 PM, Dec 22
  • I stumbled across this article from Robert Breen. In fact it may have been one of the good folks from MB who shared it. A powerful and moving piece. This really resonated with me:

    At its best, letting go brings an emotional release, a lightness, a feeling of immense relief, like putting down a heavy weight you’ve been carrying around for too long. At its worst, it brings a paralyzing sense of irretrievable loss.

    β†’ 8:56 PM, Dec 9
  • Finished reading: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer πŸ“š

    β†’ 3:41 PM, Dec 6
  • Finished reading: 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute by Richard Wiseman πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:05 PM, Nov 18
  • Finished reading: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni πŸ“š

    β†’ 9:08 PM, Nov 14
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