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. Getting back into writing short stories, both literary and sf&f. So very sick of AI and hoping sanity returns soon.

Currently reading

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

• Days of Shattered Faith (2025, fantasy, 659 pages), by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• Essays (1841/1844, nonfiction, 502 pages), by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2006, history, 528 pages), by Ruth Scurr.
• The History of Philosophy (2019, history, 971 pages), by A. C. Grayling.
• Hitler (1973, biography, 1,500 pages), by Joachim C. Fest, translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,171 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926, mystery, 264 pages), by Agatha Christie.
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973, nonfiction, 318 pages), by E. F. Schumacher.
• Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School (1872, fiction, 220 pages), by Thomas Hardy.

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