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Currently Reading
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Stephen Batchelor
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
James L. Haley
Old Path, White Clouds
Thich Nhat Hanh
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The book that walked so its show could run
Mountain walks, abundance, pizza toast
An all-around awesome guy isn't always enough
A beautiful mess that didn't quite stick the landing
Favorites
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Reading Log
- All the Pretty Horses
recommend
by Cormac McCarthy
January 14, 2026
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Matsuo Bashō
January 2, 2026
- To the Lighthouse
highly recommend
by Virginia Woolf
December 12, 2025
- An Oresteia
recommend
by Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides; trans. Anne Carson
December 7, 2025
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert
December 5, 2025
- Fear and Trembling
by Søren Kierkegaard
December 5, 2025
- Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
by Joel Brinkley
December 2, 2025
- Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
by Patrick L. Gardiner
November 27, 2025
- Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector
November 24, 2025
- Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
by James R. Rush
November 22, 2025