Books and posts about family
Reflections on Crocodilopolis
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Ten Books I'm Circling This Fall
Ten books I'm circling this fall, fiction and nonfiction, none of them comfort reads, for this week's Top Ten Tuesday.
Most Anticipated Books: Second Half of 2026
A mix of fiction and nonfiction for the second half of 2026: prison blues, forbidden forests, a Veracruz con job, and the long fight over who counts as equal.
Reflections on Dodge City
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Reflections on Country People
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Reflections on Indignity
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Reflections on Eurotrash
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on The Hypocrite
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.