Book Reading/2026
14 Jan 2026 - 24 Sep 2026
- Emptiness and Omnipresence Jan 4th, 2026 mind blown
- What Tech Calls Thinking, Adrian Daub Jan 14th, 2026
- critique of SV culture by a Stanford humanities guy. Nothing I hadn't heard before, so a waste of time. Builds a bit on From Counterculture to Cyberculture but not in a very interesting way
- Moby Dick via MDC, mind blown again, Feb 25th, 2026
- Also diving into some of the critical literature, incl All Things Shining, Zen and the White Whale, Harold Bloom volume, others.
- Smax, Alan Moore (graphic, lightweight, fun) Mar 2nd, 2026
- The Great When, Alan Moore. May 4th, 2026 in the hospital. Have to say I didn't quite get into this and so it took a long time to finish. It's very Alan Moore.
- Furious Minds, Laura K Field. On the rise of the right and ample treatment of Yarvin. Just skimmed, because I realize I am utterly tired of all these assholes and they are not the least bit interesting.
- Fever Beach, Carl Hiassen. Good hospital read May 12th, 2026
- Mathematica, David Bessis [May ?, hospital]
- Exadelic, Jon Evans Jul 3rd, 2026
- The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen Jul 15th, 2026
- There is Nothing Wrong With You Jul 18th, 2026
- Quacky, Jim Woodring, Aug 20th, 2026 (graphic something)
- The Rose Field, final volume of The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman Aug 19th, 2026
- A Violent Masterpiece Sep 9th, 2026
- Didn't much care for it, trying to be dark but the heroes all have hearts of gold and the bad guys are cartoonish to the extent they appear at all. OK the scary mercs with their torture routine was pretty good.
- Can't remember why I had it on reserve at the library, must have seen a rec somewhere