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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights (1980). Blindness

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert, Collected Letters

Books represent the largest part of my time spent not involved with food. I have always deeply enjoyed reading and found both solace and excitement within the pages of books. These pages are about books I have read whether I think are particularly worthwhile or not.

There are also some notes on books which contain things like my reading order lists for the Horus Heresy, thoughts on reading as a discipline and as a passtime, and other fluffery.

Recent Reads

The Library

Disclaimer: I read widely and for the most part do not censor my book list. For that reason many volumes appear here that I do not recommend, agree with, or think should ever have existed. Inclusion here means solely that I have read the book to completion and have a thought or two to share about it. The review is the thing, not the reading.

2666 Appalachian Home Cooking Children of Ash and Elm Damnificados Equally Shared Parenting L'appart Lean Logic Pinnick Kinnick Hill Scatter, Adapt, and Remember Sex at Dawn The Flavor Thesaurus The Library at Night The Need for Roots Weird Realism