Finished reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚I’m not sure what this novel was about. Sometimes I thought it was about the act of writing a novel. But still worth reading, even though it confused me.
Currently reading: Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane 📚In my current theme of legal rights for non-human entities, note that this includes rereading The Wizard of Earthsea.
Hotel win: figured how to turn off the air conditioning AND open a window.
Currently reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein 📚
Currently reading: Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer 📚
Nice article about one of my favorite hobbies: www.knkx.org/arts-cult…
Finished reading: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚I enjoyed this novel, though the subject matter is war and generational trauma.
Currently reading: Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa 📚
Finished reading: Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World by Brandon Keim 📚interesting and thought-provoking. Considering animal consciousness and agency.
Finished reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚Beautiful little novel, a meditation on kindness, class (in many of this word’s meanings), mathematics, and found family.
Currently reading: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚
Currently reading: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 📚
Currently reading: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami 📚Even the first chapters are wonderful. What do I mean when I say “you.” What do you mean when you say “I.” And other meditations on thinking and writing.
Finished reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚Hey, we can electrify everything. And the net use of energy in the US would be halved.
Finished reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚Nice little novel, a little heavy-handed in its message but still worth reading.
Currently reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚
Currently reading: Small Things Like These (Oprah’s Book Club) by Claire Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Lent by Jo Walton 📚excellent novel, history and fantasy adjacent, about a 15th C. monk. Meditations on how to make a difference and live a good life, while knowing that life is also futile.
Finished reading: The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚Not my favorite book of his, felt a bit unfinished, but still worth reading.
Currently reading: Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World by Brandon Keim 📚
Currently reading: Lent by Jo Walton 📚
Finished reading: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 📚Sometimes Elizabeth Strout annoys me but I really liked this one. It’s a good 2025 novel, describing our time in a way that feels accurate, albeit for white upper-middle-class New Englanders.
Currently reading: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 📚
Finished reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚Worth reading.
Finished reading: Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 📚Kinda fun, slightly romantic novel. You learn a lot about dancing at the Bolshoi and the jewelry auction business.