What I’m doing now

This is a now page, last updated August 8, 2026.

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

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman (2022, biography, 420 pages), by Lucy Worsley.
David Copperfield (1850, fiction, 1,300 pages), by Charles Dickens.
The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (2006, history, 550 pages), by Philip Ball.
Hamnet (2020, historical fiction, 388 pages), by Maggie O’Farrell.
John Aubrey: My Own Life (2015, biography, 430 pages), by Ruth Scurr.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791, biography, 4,170 pages), by James Boswell, edited by George Birkbeck Hill.

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