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 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 The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Marginalia and thoughts from reading this book over multiple sessions, focusing on what resonated deeply rather than offering comprehensive summary.