Category: books
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This year, I read 52 books. The books overlapped and intersected with each other, but somehow tidily added up to one book a week. Searching for themes, it’s easy to see my grief for my cat, Torby, processed in book form. I lost her just as 2025 began, and found comfort in every cat-related piece…
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I first read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in 2019. Originally published in 1993, Parable of the Sower gained renewed attention in the mid 10’s — reaching the NYT Bestseller list for the first time — for its prophetic depiction of a Trump-like presidency. Parable‘s President Christopher Donner, familiarly, vowed to return a crumbling United States to a long-lost…
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Am I actively reading all of these books? No. Is it comforting to know that certain books are just a stretch away at any given moment? Yes.
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Sometimes a book comes to you at exactly the right moment in your life. At first, you think it must be a fluke; certainly there will be a fork in the story where the plot deviates from your own reality. But then, sentence after sentence continues to feel like it was constructed personally with your…
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There are still a few more weeks left of the year, and a few more books on my nightstand, but as of this post I read 55 books in the year of our Lord, 2023. This pace was largely made possible by the overarching reading theme of the year, which was decisively “graphic novels for…
