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):

• An Expression of Character: The Letters of George MacDonald (1994, letters, 370 pages), by George MacDonald, edited by Glenn Edward Sadler.
• Extreme Economies: What Life at the World’s Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future (2019, nonfiction, 430 pages), by Richard Davies.
• A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game (2010, biography, 645 pages), by Jenny Uglow.
• Life of Johnson volume 1: 1709–1765 (1791, biography, 980 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
• The Name of the Rose (1980, translated 1983, mystery, 750 pages), by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver.

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