Books
Currently Reading#
I get excited about a lot of books - am often juggling a few.
- The Music Mind by Karl Berger (music)
- Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton (design)
- Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg (life)
- Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea (life)
- No Bad Parts by Richard C Schwartz (life)
- Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug (design)
Anti-Library#
What’s an anti-library?
I like thinking about an anti-library as “tsundoku” (ç©Ťă‚“čŞ) - the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later. (wikipedia)
- A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
- Finite and Infinite Games - James Carse
Books Read#
July 2025#
- Mike by PG Wodehouse
- Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
June 2025#
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Listen to This If You Like Great Music by Robin Murray
- What Art Does by Bette Adriaanse and Brian Eno
May 2025#
- A Pebble in Your Pocket by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Be in Balance by Angela Bradshaw
- Buddhism Beyond Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
- Mood Machine by Liz Pelly
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
March 2025#
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
February 2025#
- The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten
- Pat Metheny Interviews by Richard Niles
December 2024#
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
November 2024#
- Broken Music by Sting
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
October 2024#
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
September 2024#
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
July 2024#
- Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr
April 2024#
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
March 2024#
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Classic FM Guide to Classical Music by Darren Henley
- Dune by Frank Herbert
Forever Books#
- Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea
- The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander