About me

Freelance legal transcriptionist, about eight years in, working depositions and hearing transcripts for a handful of regional firms. The work trained an unusual tolerance for dense, difficult prose that shows up directly in what I choose to read for pleasure.

I work as a freelance legal transcriptionist, mostly depositions and the occasional arbitration hearing, which means my job is to sit with dense, unbroken, often difficult language for hours at a stretch and get every word of it exactly right. I think that's why I don't scare off the way some readers do when a book asks for real patience, four hundred pages of invented anthropology, a biology monograph nobody assigned me, a novel with no quotation marks at all. I read across genres on purpose, literary fiction one week, hard science fiction the next, a piece of theory or popular science after that, because staying in one lane bores me fast. Board games are the other half of this blog, mostly the heavier end of the shelf, long strategy games and co-op horror and the odd MOBA-in-a-box, played with a rotating group of friends who are far more patient with my rules explanations than they should be.

Where I am: Ithaca, New York

Most of what I read for this blog gets read twice before I write anything down. The first pass is just for me.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and personal essays. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game after I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.