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

May 10, 2026

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

March 03, 2026

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

January 31, 2026

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

January 10, 2026

At Present Pace ...

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

December 24, 2025

When is a book TOO big?

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

December 16, 2025

Read What You Want

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

November 16, 2025

Up Next

One book closes, three more open

October 16, 2025

Enter House

Mark Z. Danielewski might be for the adventure gamers

October 16, 2025

My Current Read

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

October 06, 2025

Take Three

Not the first iteration, probably not the last

October 05, 2025

Journey to the End of the Shelf