Tag: books

  • A Year With my Nose in Books

    It has been one of those years that feels long in retrospect, but I am also wondering exactly how I got to December. It’s still fairly early in the month, and I’ll likely finish the books I am reading at present, and start another one or two before the year is out, but I’m comfortable…

  • A Prep Cook reads Wittgenstein

    Someone I know said that they get “90% of the philosophy I read” from this blog which leads me to two thoughts : 1) How oddly specific, and 2) how oddly depressing. I’m an undergrad, and a prep cook in the philosophical world, watching people with bigger brains stroll by all the time, apparently effortlessly…

  • Year End Reading Wrap-up

    This year, according to Storygraph, I have finished 66 books. That’s not entirely accurate, as Storygraph has no way to distinguish between books and stories; and it counts “Hop-Frog”, at 25 pages, as a book. I’m gonna run with it, not because I log every page I read (I read a lot of articles for…

  • A Pretentious Title About Philosophy

    I walk the dog every morning. Most mornings, we walk up the French Quarter and out to the Mississippi River, and walk along it a little way. In the winter months, this is close to sunrise. I usually stop, take a picture of the dog with the sunrise in the background, and post the photo…

  • Booktube Bitch/”253″/What I am Reading

    Let’s start by bitching a little. I heard about “253” from a booktube video. And it’s sort of a miracle I did. A lot of booktube videos now are listicles, with a picture of some dingus making a face while holding a stack of books *backwards* so you can’t read the spines and thus spoil…

  • The Death of ‘Sironia, Texas’ and notes about this year’s reading.

    So, “Sironia, Texas” didn’t happen. I got through 100 pages or so, and it wasn’t all that good. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, at least from a blogging perspective. We could deconstruct the text, see what’s working, what isn’t, and why; analyzing what’s bad can sometimes illuminate what’s good. But “Sironia, Texas” also indulges…