Currently Reading

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Rersilient, Disabled Body

Sitting Pretty

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

Food Book: The Stories, Science, and History of What We Eat

Food Book

Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing

Track Changes

Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

Ghostly Apparitions

Favorite Books (in no particular order)

Love is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends

Love is for All of Us

White Tears / Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

White Tears / Brown Scars

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks

Shady Characters

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Transgender History

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste

I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

I Didn't Do the Thing Today

Flux

Flux

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore

The Ghost: A Cultural History

The Ghost

What We See When We Read: A Phenomenology

What We See When We Read

I Sing the Body Electric!

I Sing the Body Electric!

Tank Girl

Tank Girl

Hyperbole and A Half

Hyperbole and A Half

Solutions and Other Problems

Solutions and Other Problems

Soppy

Soppy

West with the Night

West with the Night

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Wintering

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Max, why do you read so many books at once?

They are all of different formats: Audio, eBook, paperbook, PDF. This allows me to have a book with me at all times without carrying one.

I usually only read 4 books at a time but there may be a spooky fifth depending on the time of year.

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