Library
Nine books on the desk. Each carries a short note and one line I wrote in the margin.
Currently reading
Reading
552 pages
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Slow going, full of pencil marks. Patterns again, but gentler.
A place is alive when it lets you be yourself.
Reading
1,171 pages
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
Dipping in at random, one pattern a night.
Pattern 159: light on two sides of every room.
On the shelf
Read
368 pages
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The book that taught me every bad door is a bad sentence.
Affordances are promises; a product keeps them or it lies.
Read
288 pages
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Attention as a form of prayer, reported from a creek in Virginia.
To see is a skill. Practise it daily, like scales.
Read
340 pages
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
Worth reading slowly, which is the whole argument.
Depth is a habit before it is a talent.
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128 pages
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ten letters I reread each January.
Live the questions now.
Up next
112 pages
Bluets
Maggie Nelson
Everyone says it is short. Everyone says it takes weeks.
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224 pages
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
For the essay on why Sundays feel longer.
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352 pages
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Overdue. Lisbon tram 28 is the right place to start it.