About

Hello. I am Thea, and this is my reading notebook. I live somewhere with long winters, which explains a great deal about my taste in novels.

By day I do unglamorous work with spreadsheets. By evening I read, mostly older fiction, some essays, and anything a friend insists I absolutely must try. I started this site in late 2025 to stop losing my reading notes, and kept it going because writing a few paragraphs about a book turns out to be the best way to remember it.

There are no ads here, no tracking and no newsletter. If you want to follow along, there is an RSS feed, which is the most old-fashioned way to subscribe to anything and therefore the most appropriate.

A few things this site will never contain: star ratings, affiliate links, or the phrase “must-read.” A few things it might: tea, weather, and the occasional complaint about small print in old paperbacks.

Thanks for reading.