bookshelf
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)
Books that I am reading, have read, or will read
Updated fairly regularly, here’s a list of books
Currently Reading
- Out of the Silent Planet
- Strength of the Few
Read 2026
- Against the Machine
- A book about the fall of the West and what that means for our society and how we can rebuild a better society. It’s early in the year, but it will go down as one of my favorite books for the year simply because the author was about to articulate things I’ve thought, but haven’t been able to put them into words.
- Into the Impossible
- This was a fun book to read. It was very very quick. It distilled down the takeaways from Nobel Prize winners down to about 10 pages each in a very easy to understand way. It didn’t teach you what to study, but how to think… if that makes sense. It is worth at least skimming over. A lot of notes can be taken for such a short book.
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- A fun and quick read that opens your mind to the importance of asking questions and using your brain. It is quirky and original. It reminds me a little of Alice and Wonderland. Worth reading regardless of your age.
- The Will of the Many
- An epic fantasy adventure. There is politic drama, magic drama, etc. What I found most enjoyable was the world building. It was well done and the plot fit well too with such good world building.