Hi, I'm Devin. I work as a technical writer. In my free time, I like to read books and write about books and other things.

A great setup and disappointing payoff in Admission (December 2024)
A disappointing dnf (November 2024)
Disagreeing with the NYT's best books of the 21st century (July 2024)
Leaving fairyland behind (July 2024)
Books I read in 2024 (a running list)
Reading as a new parent (June 2024)
2023 reading recap (January 2024)
In search of a good western book (May 2023)
Books I read in 2022/2023 (a running list)
Some thoughts about the books I read in May and June 2022 (July 2022)
All the books I read in April 2022 (May 2022)
All the books I read in February and March 2022 (April 2022)
All the books I read in January 2022 (January 2022)
All the books I read in December 2021 (December 2021)
All the books I read in November 2021 (December 2021)
All the books I read in October 2021 (October 2021)
A beautiful book, you were not (September 2021)
Third-person omniscient narration in Free Food for Millionaires (August 2021)
Don’t sleep, there are tons of boring linguistic details (July 2021)
Buy Nothing groups in Mountain View and San Mateo (May 2021)
I didn't like Mexican Gothic, but a lot of critics did (April 2021)
So...what does a technical writer actually do? (April 2021)
The House of Mirth and The Awakening have so many similarities (February 2021)
Kindred didn't pander to me and I liked that (January 2021)
I like e-readers now (January2021)
Books I read in 2021
American Woman considers how radicalism can produce ambivalence (September 2020)
Normal People is about shifting power dynamics, not love (June 2020)
Elantris has a great plot, but a disappointing love interest (June 2021)
How to use tables in technical documentation (February 2020)
Books I read in 2020

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