As I wrote in my Favorite Books of 2025 post, my intention for this year was to read some classic literature and as my first book, I chose Withering Heights several months ago. I had never read it growing up and you often hear it being “the best love story of all time” or other […]
As you may have read from my post about my favorite books of 2025, I’ve decided to start writing a post about the books I’m reading in 2026 now, throughout the year, as I read them. This way I’m hoping to have more immediate feedback on the books, not struggling through some hazy memory of
As I stated last year (every year?), I don’t have any expectations for the number of books I read in any given year. I did have an “intention” for 2025 to read mostly non fiction. Looking back at my favorite books each year, a surprising number of them were from the non fiction books I
I don’t have any expectations for the number of books I’ll read in any given year. For whatever reason, 2024 started out with a bang and things just progressed from there. One hundred and thirty books is a new record for me, by some margin. It could have been a fair bit more but I
As you might guess from my Books page, I read/listen to a lot of books. It became apparent that I needed a way to track all of these books, basically just for my own sanity. I’m not sure if you are like me but when you read this many books, I really don’t remember all
While I wouldn’t call this year’s reading pace sedate, it definitely felt more relaxed, so that was great. Almost all the books I read this year were continuations of a series I had already started. The challenge with reading book 3 or 4 of whatever, is it’s often been years since I started the series
After last year, I wanted to slow my reading progress and hopefully find more joy in it, rather feeling like a hamster on a wheel. Of course, that’s not really how it turned out. For whatever reason, I flew through quite a few books early in the year and things just went from there. Like
I thought I might do a smaller/quicker post about Bob’s trip from Earth to Saturn before he heads out to Epsilon Eridani. Since Bob isn’t moving very fast, no relativistic physics is required, you can get away with go ol’ Newtonian mechanics (kinematics really, we aren’t considering forces here). The relevant excerpts are: Chapter 13: