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After about a … checks notes … 13-year hiatus, I have started maintaining my Goodreads profile again. If I have learned anything from the experience, it is that I have started and subsequently not finished a lot of books. Looking back this is almost always the result of a lack of discipline on my part, and not due to the fact that I particularly did not enjoy any of them, much less that I disliked them. So I am going to start going through these books more intentionally.

https://www.goodreads.com/djmoch

https://www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/02/goodreads/

While scrolling through a Telegram channel the other day, I came across this black and white picture of a figure wearing a strange mask and tunic while presenting an unknown object. I thought it was cool looking and saved the photo. I didn't know where the image was from and didn't see it as intriguing enough to research it's origin.

Just two days later (yesterday), I was in a thrift store and as I made my way to the book section, a worn out copy of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" was propped up in the corner of a shelf.

I immediately recognized the image and bought the book. It's not the most riveting example of synchronicity, but I try to pay attention to those mysterious and often inconsequential signs that wait quietly for someone to pay attention to them. Maybe this book will teach me something ᛉ

#synchronicity #reading …

Some books don’t just tell stories. They change you.

He didn’t know that yet. He just turned the pages.

Number the Stars—Anne Frank, hidden away, her world ripped apart. Silence was survival. That stuck with him.

Then The Giver—a boy chosen to bear memories, to carry the weight of feeling.

And it clicked.

Giving meant sacrifice.

Maybe that’s where it started—the need to give, to carry.

Maybe that’s when he learned to disappear.

Chapter 11: The First Books
Some books don’t just tell stories. They change you.

He didn’t know that at the time. He just turned the pages.

The first was Number the Stars. Anne Frank, hiding in an attic, her entire world ripped away. She had to be silent. She had to disappear to survive.

Something about that stuck with him.

Then came The Giver. A world where memories were locked away, where one boy was chosen to carry the burden of feeling.

And suddenly, it clicked—giving meant sacrifice.

Maybe that’s where it started. The need to give. The need to carry.

Maybe that’s where he first learned how to disappear.
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I can't afford a new ereader right now but I will only be unlinking my Kindle from Amazon and then using exclusively sideloadef reading materials.

You can achieve this by using Calibre ebook library management software.

Consider hosting an online calibre library if you have the resources!