Yeah, yeah, yeah, shelves, whatever. The good news is I’ve cleared out everything I bought in 2025! Let’s pretend that’s an achievement.
Category: Photography
New face, with ladder
What do y’all think of the new glasses? I haven’t had plastic frames since elementary school.
Unread Shelves: May 3, 2026
I put the new bookshelves in place today— two full-size Billys from our friends at Ikea– and … sigh:
Sooooo much to read.
Monthly Reads: April 2026
If this looks super light, well, that’s because by my standards it obviously is, but also I started Tom’s Crossing on the last day of March and it was twelve hundred freaking pages long.
Book of the Month is Cursed Daughters, with The Door on the Sea and The Reanimator’s Fate very close behind. I’m enjoying For Whom The Belle Tolls way, way, way more than I thought I would, but I’m not done with it yet so it isn’t eligible.
Unread Shelf: April 30, 2026
Looks kinda rough, right? Hahaha you have no idea:
And we aren’t fucking done:
Minor milestone: this will be the final Unread Shelf for the bookshelf in the top picture, which has hosted my unread books since I began this series ten thousand years ago. It is being replaced this weekend with something sturdier and just barely wider, and also I can never leave the house again because I have too much to read.
Monthly Reads: March 2026
Book of the Month is the most excellent The Black Hunger, by Nicholas Pullen. This was kind of a bleh month overall, but Slewfoot and Trad Wife were pretty good too.
Unread Shelf: March 31, 2026
How long, do you think, will I hold out until I cave and call this post “Unread Shelves”?
Monthly Reads: February 2026
Book of the Month is Shen Tao’s The Poet Empress. The John Lewis and Malcolm X books were really solid as well.