Unread Shelf: May 31, 2025

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Gotta get this up early, because there may or may not be like six new books showing up today.

Unread Shelf: April 30, 2025

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A little better than last month? At least there are no books in front of books. Man, I need to do nothing but read this summer.

Unread Shelf: March 31, 2025

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Call it the power outage edition. We somehow made it through the storm and then the power went out in the middle of the night.

Unread Shelf: February 28, 2025

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A couple of these arrived today, and I almost didn’t include them in the picture until I realized I had two books called “Gilgamesh” (one a new translation of the epic, the other a historical fiction) and two featuring the rather improbable combination of the words “blood” and “promise” in their titles.

Unread Shelf: February 1, 2025

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Call this the Brandon Sanderson edition if you like; this is what happens when you spend the whole month reading books that weren’t on your TBR shelf while all your Christmas books pile up.

Unread Shelf: December 31, 2024

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On one hand, this is the smallest my TBR shelf has been since July. On the other hand, the Christmas Books haven’t hit it yet, and my January reading is not going to subtract a single book off of this shelf since all of my Stormlight books are already shelved in the living room. Am I doomed? Yes, I’m doomed.

Also, I’m amending my reading goals: see that stack on the left? It’s entirely nonfiction. That’s half the year’s goal right there. So instead of 25 specific books, it’s now 20% of all of my reading is going to be nonfiction. The math/teaching goal is going to stay the same, and I think The Anxious Generation is going to count toward that goal even though it’s not explicitly about teaching.

Expect several posts today, by which I mean “at least two.”