What I’m doing now

Primarily reading (aiming for 150+ pages a day) with a focus on classic lit and on nonfiction, in particular history and biography. Writing stories and making occasional art.

Currently reading

In alphabetical order, and these are subject to change at any time as I add or abandon books (which happens often):

• The Blue Castle (1926, fiction, 310 pages), by L. M. Montgomery.
• David Copperfield (1850, fiction, 1,470 pages), by Charles Dickens.
• The Diary of John Evelyn volume 1, 1620–1644 (1901, diary, 625 pages), by John Evelyn, edited by William Bray.
• An Expression of Character: The Letters of George MacDonald (1994, letters, 370 pages), by George MacDonald, edited by Glenn Edward Sadler.
• A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game (2010, biography, 645 pages), by Jenny Uglow.
• Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction (2017, nonfiction, 240 pages), by Gary Rogowski.
• The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (2013, letters, 830 pages), by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter.
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,410 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018, history, 540 pages), by Patrick Radden Keefe.

See the reading log for books I’ve finished reading.