Writing Requires Reading—JOURNAL

…as my November-writing adventures make clear!

Red Mars—LIBRARY

Kim Stanley Robinson’s imagination is provocative in the best ways.

Recursion—LIBRARY

Blake Crouch’s latest thriller is—delightfully—about something.

Dark Matter—LIBRARY

I could not put this book down. Also, it was kind of creepy.

Adieu to 2019—JOURNAL

A year of rest and recovery, for which I’m profoundly grateful.

Tell Me Your Priors!—LIBRARY

A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.

Tiamat’s Wrath—LIBRARY

The things only the eighth book in a series can do.

Adding a Reading List Page—LIBRARY

A central place to see what I’ve read and what I’ve said about it!

Jurassic Park—LIBRARY

A book that knows it is both a sci-fi thriller and sociotechnological commentary.

The Lost World—LIBRARY

Not quite as spectacular as the first entry… but still a lot of fun.

Reading Habits—JOURNAL

How exactly do I go about reading, and what do I read these days?

Sourdough—LIBRARY

Easily the most delightful book I’ve read in years.

On Ending “This Week I Learned”—JOURNAL

At least for now, I don’t have time for this particular bit of blogging. And that’s okay.

Polemic is Hard—LIBRARY

One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.

Can You Recommend a Book on This?—JOURNAL

Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore—LIBRARY

Robin Sloan’s debut novel was just astonishing.

Wrapping Up 2020 and Starting 2021—JOURNAL

Goodbye, good riddance, won’t look back fondly on this one.

Miscellaneous Updates—JOURNAL

Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.

Reread Books!—LIBRARY

Fiction, nonfiction, steak, popcorn: find books you love and reread them.

2021 End-of-Year Thoughts —JOURNAL

Another year behind, another reflection on what happened (and what didn’t!) in this latest circuit of the sun.

Tentative 2022 Reading List—LIBRARY

The books I would like to get through this year.

Don’t Sprint the First Mile of a Half Marathon—JOURNAL

On establishing a sustainable pace at the start of a new year.

Thinking Out Loud on “Trauma”—LIBRARY

Some musing and notes after reading the first fifth of The Body Keeps the Score

The Man from the Future—LIBRARY

An interesting study in the life of a profoundly influential man.

2022 in Review: Reading —JOURNAL

I read a lot less than I wanted, but I still made my goal of 22 books in the year. I’ll take it!

2023 in Review: Reading—JOURNAL

Genuine Lowbrow Reading?—JOURNAL

Mildly contra Alan Jacobs, with a nod at the bestseller list.

Weeknote: June 17–21, 2024—JOURNAL

Weeknote: June 22–29, 2024—JOURNAL

Weeknote: June 30–July 5, 2024—JOURNAL

Review: A Quiet Mind to Suffer With ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Writing at The Gospel Coalition on John Andrew Bryant’s book on OCD and the Christian life.

Weeknote: July 6–13, 2024—JOURNAL

A Long Kobo/Pocket Backlog—LIBRARY

On my very deep list of unread articles being good, actually.

Life Update, Advent 2024—JOURNAL

Present goings-on and general life status as we come into the start of a new liturgical year.

2024 in Review—JOURNAL

A weird year—not a bad one, sometimes a great one, always a strange one.

Retractions and Revisions: My Review of Real Essentialism—LIBRARY

Learning to be a better reader (even of books I dislike).

no efficiency… very little scalability—LIBRARY

Quoting Deb Chachra on “Baumol’s Cost Disease”.