Selfies…with Books! 2024 Year in Review

Reading and writing–here is 2024’s output.

The Necessity of Companionship: Re-Reading Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is, unfortunately, a microcosm of the American West unique in its circumstances, but not in its outcome.

Selfies…with Books! 2023 Year in Review

Books Read November 21, 2023: Nausea, by John Paul Sartre Somewhere in between these dates: To Live, by Yu Hua October 11, 2023: Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson September 19, 2023: Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck February 25, 2023: The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu Pieces Written The […]

2022 Selfies…with Books! Year in Review

If there was a theme to the books this year, it would have to be this: Affirmation.

2021 Selfies…with Books! Year in Review!

At this point, writing about the books that I read in the past year feels like reaching a checkpoint in an overly-long JRPG dungeon.

The Uncompromising Nature of Tragedy

It is the mission of this life to identify the many ways one falls short from living an honest existence. Rather than consider this a morose undertaking, it’s rather a necessary exercise to reach meaning.

2019 Selfies…with Books! Year in Review

Another year down, another retrospective look at the year through the books that got me through it.

Indefatigable: An Optimist Reads 1984 and Brave New World

We need only observe present elements of society to imagine which future we might be inching closer to.

Hierarchy

Society is a self-forming pyramid. No amount of dynamite or ideology will topple the hierarchy.

2018 Selfies…with Books! Year in Review

2018 saw a much-shortened list of completed books, but if you’re looking to start reading something new, check these out!

The Politicks

Feeding Off Absurdity

Literature