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

Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May

Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May

At this rate, maybe I can finish this project someday after all?

Geoff George
Dispatch from the Trail: Five Books Since May

A Little Lit Roulette

A Little Lit Roulette

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

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A Little Lit Roulette

Dispatch from the Trail: A Depressing Duo

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

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Dispatch from the Trail: A Depressing Duo

Douglas Adams on AI, Before There Was AI

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

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

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

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

At Present Pace ...

At Present Pace ...

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

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When is a book TOO big?

When is a book TOO big?

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

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When is a book TOO big?

Read What You Want

Read What You Want

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

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Up Next

Up Next

One book closes, three more open

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Up Next

Enter House

Enter House

Mark Z. Danielewski might be for the adventure gamers

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Enter House

My Current Read

My Current Read

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

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My Current Read

Take Three

Take Three

Not the first iteration, probably not the last

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