Journey to the End of the Shelf

Updates, extended thoughts, and discursive tangents as I try to work my way through every unread book I own

A Little Lit Roulette

I've selected the last couple of books from my shelf at random, and turns out I prefer it

Geoff George
May 10
A Little Lit Roulette

Dispatch from the Trail: A Depressing Duo

William T. Vollmann’s “Europe Central” is hitting uncomfortably close to home, and at the same time I'm braced for Yiyun Li’s latest

Geoff George
Mar 3
Dispatch from the Trail: A Depressing Duo

Douglas Adams on AI, Before There Was AI

A passage from one of the author’s comic novels of the 1980s clarifies a key user flaw of our AI present

Geoff George
Jan 31

Page-Turner Tunes: Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children”

The first entry in a series on my favorite albums for locking in while reading

Geoff George
Jan 11
Page-Turner Tunes: Boards of Canada’s “Music Has the Right to Children”

At Present Pace ...

A year's-end reminder that the race is long but only against myself

Geoff George
Dec 24 '25

When is a book TOO big?

In terms of sheer size, I’ve finally found my limit with one of my latest reads

Geoff George
Dec 17 '25
When is a book TOO big?

Read What You Want

Engagement-based media has worried the concept of performative reading into a trend, and too many are falling for it

Geoff George
Nov 17 '25

Up Next

One book closes, three more open

Geoff George
Oct 17 '25
Up Next

Enter House

Mark Z. Danielewski might be for the adventure gamers

Geoff George
Oct 16 '25
Enter House

My Current Read

A big, sprawling tip of the spear of what could have been an even bigger, even more sprawling thing

Geoff George
Oct 7 '25
My Current Read

Take Three

Not the first iteration, probably not the last

Geoff George
Oct 5 '25