Books and posts about mortality
Reflections on Joyride: A Memoir
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on Night Night Fawn
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Quick Lit Short and Sweet Reviews, April 2026
Short reviews of six books I read over the last month and a half — Sisters in Yellow, Last Night in Brooklyn, The Witch, Vigil, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Down Time.
Down Time
Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.
Reflections on Meditations for Mortals
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on Trip
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on Vigil
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkehead
My conversations helped me recognise a deeper issue, too, which is the way our ceaseless efforts to get into the driver’s seat of life seem to sap it of the very sense of aliveness that makes it worth living in the first place.
Reflections on The Antidote
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.