---
id: reading-things
title: Reading Things
summary: A quarterly newsletter about books written by Tammy, Mazie, Tyler, and me, sent four times from 2021 to 2022.
collection: Publishing
status: retired
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20211130142318/https://reading.thingelstad.com/archive/
started: 2021-05-08
ended: 2022-02-06
topics:
  - reading
sources:
  - kind: website
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20211130142318/https://reading.thingelstad.com/archive/
    role: archive
  - kind: website
    url: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/186/
    role: reference
  - kind: website
    url: https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/02/06/the-winter-issue.html
    role: reference
connections:
  - to: weekly-thing
    label: was announced in
    detail: I teased Reading Things in Weekly Thing 177 and announced it in Weekly Thing 186, a week after the first issue went out.
    source: https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/186/
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/reading-things/
---

# Reading Things

A quarterly newsletter about books written by Tammy, Mazie, Tyler, and me, sent four times from 2021 to 2022.

Reading Things was a newsletter about books from our whole family. Tammy, Mazie, Tyler, and I each wrote about what we were reading. I teased it as “a fun, new family project” in [Weekly Thing 177](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/177/), and the [first issue](https://web.archive.org/web/20210508214912/https://reading.thingelstad.com/archive/reading-things-book-thief-atomic-habits-treasure/) went out on May 8, 2021. In [Weekly Thing 186](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/186/) I explained the plan: four emails a year, about books and things related to them, such as Tammy’s Corner and a bookstore challenge. There were no affiliate links, no tracking, and no “buy now” links.

Issues followed in [summer](https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/07/25/we-just-sent.html) and [fall](https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/10/31/we-just-published.html) 2021. The [Winter 2022 issue](https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/02/06/the-winter-issue.html), sent on February 6, 2022, is the last one in the [archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20211130142318/https://reading.thingelstad.com/archive/) and the last one I mentioned. In July 2021 we marked 100 subscribers with a [Reading Things First 100 POAP](https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/07/25/poap-at-reading-things-first.html), which I [wrote about](https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/06/04/my-introduction-to.html) in June 2022. No public source says why the newsletter stopped, and reading.thingelstad.com no longer answers.