https://mybookpile.com/ Short notes on the books I finish. en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://mybookpile.com/posts/entangled-life.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/entangled-life.htmlSun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000A popular-science book that made me look at the lawn differently for about three weeks. https://mybookpile.com/posts/small-angry-planet.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/small-angry-planet.htmlTue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Space opera in which nothing much explodes and I did not miss the explosions. https://mybookpile.com/posts/library-holds-summer.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/library-holds-summer.htmlTue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000A log post: what came in, what I abandoned, and why my hold list is a poor model of my taste. https://mybookpile.com/posts/remains-of-the-day.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/remains-of-the-day.htmlMon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000A butler drives across England and tells you almost nothing, at length, beautifully. https://mybookpile.com/posts/dune-reread.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/dune-reread.htmlSat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000The desert is still the best character. The dialogue is stranger than I remembered. https://mybookpile.com/posts/order-of-time.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/order-of-time.htmlTue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000Physics for the general reader, in prose that keeps reaching for poetry, sometimes successfully. https://mybookpile.com/posts/middlemarch.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/middlemarch.htmlTue, 06 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000A very long novel about ordinary people making decisions slightly too early. https://mybookpile.com/posts/project-hail-mary.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/project-hail-mary.htmlSun, 23 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000One man solves problems in space for four hundred pages. Enormously effective, occasionally weightless. https://mybookpile.com/posts/wizard-of-earthsea.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/wizard-of-earthsea.htmlThu, 30 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000Under two hundred pages, and it does more than most trilogies. https://mybookpile.com/posts/piranesi.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/piranesi.htmlSun, 28 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000A man keeps a careful journal in an enormous house. I finished it and immediately reread the first fifty pages. https://mybookpile.com/posts/monte-cristo.htmlhttps://mybookpile.com/posts/monte-cristo.htmlSun, 07 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000First post. Twelve hundred pages of revenge, read over a summer, and why I am writing these down at all.