Unread Shelf: March 31, 2025

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

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

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

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.”

Unread Shelf: November 30, 2024

… it’s been worse, I guess?

Monthly Reads: October 2024

Book of the Month is going to be Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, with The Fury of the Gods, In the Hour of Crows and The God and the Gumiho nipping at its heels.

Unread Shelf: October 31, 2024

Otherwise known as the “I am deeply ashamed of this” edition.

Unread Shelf: September 30, 2024

It’s a little less out of control than last month … but not by much.