Books

This corner of the garden holds the longer-form reviews plus a running record of what I've been reading lately.

Latest reviews

May 27, 2025

Mountain walks, abundance, pizza toast

May 13, 2025

An all-around awesome guy isn't always enough

Apr 7, 2025

A beautiful mess that didn't quite stick the landing

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Blindness

José Saramago

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

Sappho

Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Grendel

John Gardner

Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer November 16, 2025
The Waves ★ favorite by Virginia Woolf November 14, 2025
The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi November 12, 2025
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher November 11, 2025
Neuromancer recommend by William Gibson November 11, 2025
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams November 8, 2025
Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki November 1, 2025
Cloud Atlas highly recommend by David Mitchell October 28, 2025
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett October 21, 2025
Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa October 11, 2025