Halliday in the Books

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A rather dusty Nintendo 64 in a cardboard storage box
A screenshot of a map feature on my website, showing the locations of all the Massachusetts independent bookstores I've visited and made video of so far on my quest to visit them all. Above the map itself is a heading reading "Search the Map" and a brief paragraph of text describing how the map works.
True Communication Nowadays we have many means of communication, like smartphones, computers, and television, but communication has become very difficult between partners, father and son, and mother and daughter. Having many electronic devices doesn't necessarily improve the quality of our communication. If we are unable to be in touch with ourselves, to understand ourselves, to know the cause of our suffering, fear, and anger, then we're not in communication with ourselves. If we can't communicate with ourselves, how can we communicate with another person? Coming back to ourselves, we get in touch with our body, feelings, perceptions, and our suffering, and we develop our capacity to listen to ourselves and then to be able to listen to others.
A stack of books with overlaid text reading "New Blog Post! So You Want to Get Paid in Books: About Professional Reading"
StoryGraph screenshot showing a goal of 50 books with 89 books read so far this year
Image of the side of a red SUV with trees and fog in the background and autumn leaves on the ground. Overlaid is the text "New Blog Post The End of the Road: Saying Goodbye to Vessel"
A large pile of books with a skeleton decoration sitting on top of them. Overlaid is text reading "New Blog Post How to Defeat a Reading Slump"
Cover of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin with a thumb covering a local library sticker in the top left corner
An image of the interior of a public library overlaid with the text "New Blog Post" and "Getting Loud to Defend Libraries"
Cover of The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox held up by a hand, with a rainy pine forest in the background
The cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century but Timothy Snyder
Image shows a pile of books on my desk beside an open laptop with a text document open on the screen. There is a larger monitor in the background showing a spreadsheet of daily progress statistics. Overlaid on the image is text reading "New Blog Post" and "Telling My Story."
A stack of books including Flight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Grendel by John Gardner, A Hundred Breaths by Jean M. Grant, Dreadnought by Cherie Priest, and Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques.
A stack of books from to to bottom: Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, Last Nocturne by Marjorie Eccles, The Doll-Master by Joyce Carol Oates, and The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu
Text reading "I am the woman offering two flowers whose roots are twin Justice and Hope Let us begin."
A long-haired calico cat standing with her front paws on the pages of an open book that is lying on the bed. The car is looking past the camera pleadingly.
Photograph of text in a book reading "For all the girls who save themselves and all the girls still learning how" from Looking Glass by Christina Henry
Photograph of printed text reading "he was losing his goddamn mind." The text makes use of atypical formatting with spacing and line breaks, making it somewhat disorienting.