Reflections on Sucker Punch

What I’ve gathered here are my notes from reading this book—the scenes that resonated, the language that stayed, the feelings that remained after finishing.

New-to-me Authors Read in 2025

A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?

Reflections on John of John

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on Python's Kiss

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age

This page gathers my ongoing engagement with this book. reading notes, marginalia, and reflections written across different moments of return. What’s collected here focuses less on summary and more on what lingered after reading.

Poem that opens the book: For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet

Reflections on Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Reading notes assembled from various encounters with this book—the moments that registered most, the ideas that persisted, the passages worth returning to.

Reflections on Becoming Little Shell A Landless Indian's Journey Home

This page gathers my ongoing engagement with this book—reading notes, marginalia, and reflections written across different moments of return. What’s collected here focuses less on summary and more on what lingered after reading.

Reflections on Berlin

Marginalia and reflections gathered through multiple readings—what captured my attention, what accumulated meaning, what warranted revisiting.

Reflections on Best Offer Wins

Thoughts and marginalia from multiple readings of this book—the moments that registered, the ideas that held weight, the passages that kept coming back.