Five Favorite Fiction I Read in 2021
Looking back on the fiction I read in 2021, nothing jumps out at me as exceptional. Let me rephrase that, nothing struck me as “Wow, you have to read thi...
Month: January 2022
Book Review: A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolfe
As perhaps is appropriate, I came to read A Borrowed Man by Gene Wolf in a very roundabout way. I decided to buy Interlibrary Loan after seeing it in the barga...
My 2021 Reading By The Numbers
Some stats about my reading in 2021 (that may be of interest only to me): Total Books Read: 84 Hardcover: 42 Kindle: 32 Paperback: 6 Audio: 3 Nonfiction: 45 Fic...
Bibliotheca: Achievement Unlocked
If my greatest reading accomplishment in 2020 was reading 100 books in a year, my reading accomplishment for 2021 was finally reading my entire Bibliothe...
Literature as equipment for living
What if we were to think of literature and the other arts as a kind of repository of habitus, a motley collection of practices and strategies? “Motley” because ...
The Good Life Method by Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko
Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and Happiness