Valis by Philip K. Dick

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Big Red book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland by Yunte Huang

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick

PineBuds Pro Review

Leviathan: Or, The Whale by Philip Hoare

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

My Computer Hardware

Better Phones!

Where to Buy Linux Laptops?

2022 Reading Challenge

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

Traffic Power Structure by Planka.nu

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer

Delusions of the Crowd: Why People Go Mad in Groups by William J. Bernstein

Installing Tailscale on Fedora Silverblue

Fediverse on the Web

SF Masterworks - Man Plus & Non-Stop

Against a Dark Background by Iain M Banks

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

$ git sync murder by Michael Warren Lucas

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

$ git commit murder by Michael Warren Lucas

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard

Squad by Maggie Tokuda Hall

Space Boy: Volume 1 by Stephen McCranie

Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Hooky by Miriam Bonastre Tur

My Fedora Silverblue Experience

A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke

The Centauri Device by M John Harrison

Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada

A Taipei Mutt by Eric Mader-Lin

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel Series

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

The Graveyard by Marek Hłasko

SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys by Michael Warren Lucas

Demons by Kang Hwagil

Savaged by Systemd by Michael Warren Lucas

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

War and Peas: funny comics for dirty lovers by Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich

The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Stoner by John Williams

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Shin Kyung-sook

The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

All Backs Were Turned by Marek Hłasko

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé

Tales From the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree

Pinephone as a Daily Driver

I Have a Pinephone, Finally

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny

Deadwood by Pete Dexter

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan by Ivan Morris

Europa by Han Kang

Migrante by J.W. Henley

Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hłasko

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West by Catherine Belton

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie & John Geiger

The Eighth Day of the Week by Marek Hłasko

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding

The World in a Grain The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

Making Offsite Yunohost Backups using Rest-Server, Restic & Wireguard

Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories by Oobmab

Five Preludes & A Fuge by Emily Yae Won

Old Wrestler by Jeon Sungtae

Power & Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale by Nathan Hale

The Korean War by Max Hastings

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

DK Eyewitness: Shell by Alex Arthur

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Why COVID19 Has Been a Net Positive for the World and My Family

Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei

The Gunpowder Age by Tonio Andrade

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Formosa Files Podcast by by John Ross and Eryk Michael Smith

How to Use Hugo with Yunohost

Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh

Finity's End by C.J. Cherryh

Looking at Totem Poles by Hilary Stewart

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

Tripoint by C.J. Cherryh

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh

Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics

Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift

The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn

Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

This Place: 150 Years Retold - Anthology

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M. Banks

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

Matter by Iain M. Banks

The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

Daily Automated Backups with Restic

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification by Christopher Hitchens

Hellburner by C.J. Cherryh

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang

Heavy Time by C.J. Cherryh

Metro 2034 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare

Fascism by Mark Neocleous

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

The Parthenon by Mary Beard

Inversions by Iain M. Banks

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Leaves of Grass (1855 edition) by Walt Whitman

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

Witness in Palestine: A Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories by Anna Baltzer

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Manga Edition): An Illustrated Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim

The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei

Scales of Injustice. The Complete Fiction of Loā Hô.

Expert System Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo

The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili

Hench by Natalie Zina Walscots

The Atlas of Flags by Federico Silvestri

The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins

Step Aside

How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein

My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti

Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare

Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Geisha by Liza Dalby

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom by Howard S. Levy

Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon & Nathan Hale

Economics in the Age of Covid-19:Updated Edition by Joshua Gans

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Hazardous Tales Number: 8-10

Divorce by Kim Soom

History Of Crete by Theocharēs Eustratiou Detorakēs

Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger

Milena, Milena, Ecstatic by Bae Suah

Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yū

The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi

Privacy is Power: Reclaiming Democracy in the Digital Age by Carissa Véliz

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky

Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin

Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Excession by Iain M. Banks

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes

Raid of No Return by Nathan Hale

The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Photoprism on Yunohost Installation Guide

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Photoprism for self-hosted photo management

Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith

Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

Eyewitness: Flags

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann

That We May Live by Two Lines Press

Hazardous Tales Number: 2-3

One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale

Treaties

The Plotters by Un-su Kim

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski

Eyewitness: Battle vs. Arms & Armour

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah

Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy A. Adkins

The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi

The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee

Boardgame Guide for Taiwan

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill

Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey

Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks

Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk by Allison Schrager

3 Novellas for the Summer

MONTHLY UPDATE - July 2020

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

Adulthood Rites & Imago by Octavia E. Butler

Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

MONTHLY UPDATE - June 2020

Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild

White Fox by Chen Jiatong

Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang

The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

Something Will Happen

Primary Sources: History of Taiwan

Network Effect by Martha Wells

MONTHLY UPDATE - May 2020

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake

Home: Habitat

Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique by Chiang Yee

Diana: Princess of the Amazons by Shannon Hale

Good Will Come From the Sea by Christos Ikonomou

Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Adventure Time by Ryan North

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Hilda graphic novel series by Luke Pearson

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke

Recipe: Greek Tzatziki

Lord of Formosa by Joyce Bergvelt

Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing

Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann

Rethymno: Soul Of Crete by Stella Kalogeraki

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Taipei: City of Displacements by Joseph R. Allen

The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia by Ian Easton

Painfotainment by Dan Carlin

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini (Editor)

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar

The CCP Virus

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd

All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen

Hardcore History podcast by Dan Carlin

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Birthday Buyer by Adolfo García Ortega

Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Minoan and Mycenaean Art by Reynold Higgins

This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Rocks & Minerals by Robert F. Symes

Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman

As Long as There is Resistance, There is Hope by Kong Tsung Gan

Supernova Era by Cixin Liu

This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)

My Experiment: Cutting back on Social Media

Historium by Richard Wilkinson (Illustrator)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

Troubleshooting: Epicyon

The Road to Digital Self-Sufficiency

Explorer (Eyewitness Books) by Rupert Matthews

The Stone of Heaven: The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

My GoodReads Rating Modification System

Feast of the Innocents by Evelio Rosero

Zeus: King of the Gods by George O'Connor

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

The Dead Do Not Die by Sven Lindqvist

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Devenport

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery

The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa

Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo

At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong

Books by Polish Writers: Szukalski and Tokarczuk

The White Book by Han Kang

To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

The Good People by Hannah Kent

Tinker

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Close Call for my Server - Always Keep Backups!

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

China Dream by Ma Jian

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

Using GoodReads.com

The Doomed City by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Reading the Classics

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention by Alexander Monro

Waiting by Ha Jin

Leonardo & His Times by Andrew Langley

The Ancient Greeks by Imogen Greenberg & Isabel Greenberg

Galatea by Madeline Miller

The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov

Early People (DK Eyewitness Books)

Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard

Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Taiwan Readers Meetup Group

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Yunohost Installation Guide and Tips

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction

Yunohost & Freedombox

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Unable to Follow Blog on Mastodon

The 3 Stages of Self-Hosting

From A Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Where To Buy Books in Taipei

Books 1-5 in 2019 Reading Challenge

Want by Cindy Pon

New URL For Arkadi Cloud

Books I Read in March 2019

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

A New Illustrated History of Taiwan by Wan-yao Chou

The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary by Ken Liu

Taiwan: The Search for Identity 探索台灣自我認同 by Jerome F. Keating

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People who Think Different - Steve Silberman

The End of Trust (McSweeney's 54)

Mastodon Links

Building software together with Git

A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Board Games: Outfoxed! & Karuba

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the Frontier of Power

Kyung-Sook Shin and Han Kang: Korean Translated Fiction Worth Reading

3 Book Reviews of Fiction from the African Continent

How do you read so much?

WriteFreely: self-hosted blogging platform

Smartphones that Respect your Privacy?

Car, Truck, Jeep by Katrina Charman

The Watermelon Boys by Ruqaya Izzidien

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

WriteFreely: Failed to Post Error.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Tech Life Overview

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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