My books

2026-06-27 — Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (2014) 5/5
2026-06-24 — Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1985) 4/5
2026-05-17 — The Information by James Gleick (2011) 4/5
2026-05-11 — The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins (1982) 4/5
2026-04-16 — A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans by Jakob von Uexküll (1934) 4/5
2026-03-17 — Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2013) 5/5
2026-03-09 — Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985) 5/5
2026-01-22 — The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (1980-1983) 5/5
2026-01-20 — Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) 5/5
2026-01-11 — We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour (1991) 3/5

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.