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2025 Reading Goal

15% complete! tele_well has read 2 of 13 books.

Review of 'Sinkhole' on 'Goodreads'

Yoga raw food business Goa owners , world of good old Thatcher-era England nostalgics, writers spending their time closed at home, writing whatever pays for their Amazon Prime deliveries in flooded areas. All those get an ironic and fun punch in the face in these three stories.

Shawn Reynaldo: First Floor Volume 1 (2023, Velocity Press)

A collection of Reynaldo’s most thought-provoking essays, First Floor Volume 1 provides a nuanced, wide-ranging …

Review of 'First Floor Volume 1' on 'Goodreads'

3,5 stars. Converting a substack newsletter into a book is a hard task, this one has worked out, partly. Put together, these short essays form as a timestamp of the post-covid era, from a viewpoint of someone who is deeply involved in the music journalism and (broken) music business. Streaming, poptimism, DJing and partying after covid are some of the topics covered. The recurrinng topics and (sometimes) too plain language writing, reliance on ephemeral topics and sources (Twitter) will make it probably date quite fast, but that is yet to be seen, i’ll get back to it in a few years.