books
Currently Reading
I get excited about a lot of books - am often juggling a few.
- Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner (music)
- Seeing that Frees by Rob Burbea (life)
- No Bad Parts by Richard C Schwartz (life)
Anti-Library
What’s an anti-library?
I like thinking about an anti-library as “tsundoku” (積ん読) - 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 2026
- The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
June 2026
- This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
- thanks ev!
May 2026
- The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park by Michiko Aoyama (translated by Takami Nieda)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- A Modern Way to Live by Matt Gibberd
- Drawing Expressive People by Róisín Curé
March 2026
- Uneasy Money by PG Wodehouse
- Something New by PG Wodehouse
Feburary 2026
- The Farthest Shore by Ursula K LeGuin
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin
- The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K LeGuin
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin
January 2026
- Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
December 2025
- On Modern Art by Paul Klee
- Zoo of the New by Various
- *Modern Japanese prints 1912-1989 * by Lawrence Smith
November 2025
- My Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno
October 2025
- Zen Guitar by Philip Toshio Sudo
September 2025
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
August 2025
- Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse
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