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):

• David Copperfield (1850, fiction, 1,467 pages), by Charles Dickens.
• The Diary of John Evelyn volume 1, 1620–1644 (1901, diary, 625 pages), by John Evelyn, ed. William Bray.
• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (2025, nonfiction, 217 pages), by John Green.
• An Expression of Character: The Letters of George MacDonald (1994, letters, 372 pages), by George MacDonald, ed. Glenn Edward Sadler.
• A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game (2010, biography, 646 pages), by Jenny Uglow.
• The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (2013, letters, 827 pages), by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter.
• The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,412 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.
• The Blue Castle (1926, fiction, 309 pages), by L. M. Montgomery.
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018, history, 542 pages), by Patrick Radden Keefe.
• Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead (2026, fantasy, 433 pages), by K. J. Parker.
• The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (2010, history, 451 pages), by Evan Thomas.

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