my reading

i guess one could read this as a list of books i've started reading & books i'm dipping in and out of. for example, reading michel de montaigne or ralph waldo emerson is an ongoing (possibly neverending) project. additionally i'm not always up to the 'task' or reading their prose/ thinking: sometimes i *just* need fiction (not to suggest fiction is less chewy, but there's an element of choice involved: i can choose to *just* read the surface of the story. i do not always want to deep-read. in fact, in the past deep-reading has taken away my joy of reading & i plan on not letting that happen again).

2025

—, january

shakespeare, the merchant of venice
leo tolstoy, anna karenina
plato, symposium
lisa woollett, sea journal
aeschylus, prometheus bound
willa cather, o pioneers!
ralph waldo emerson, self-reliance and other essays
ovid, metamorphoses

—, february

fyodor dostoevsky, crime and punishment
walt whitman, everyman's library pocket poets
cal flynn, verlaten oorden
arita baaijens, in gesprek met de noordzee

—, maart

byung-chul han, the scent of time
elizabeth strout, oh william!
beth kempton, the way of the fearless writer
george orwell, nineteen eighty-four
may sarton, the house by the sea

—, april

john daido lori, the zen of creativity
grounding a world. essays on the work of kenneth white
jane austen, persuasion
anita brookner, family and friends

—, mei

robert macfarlane, leeft een rivier?
han kang, we do not part
clarice lispector, an apprenticeship or the book of pleasures
hélène cixous, station osnabrueck naar jeruzalem
solvej balle, over de berekening van ruimte i
christa wolf, nadenken over christa t.

 —, juni

solvej balle, over de berekening van ruimte ii 
seneca, letters from a stoic
christa wolf, de cesuur
alfred habegger, my wars are laid away in books. the life of emily dickinson
katherine frank, emily brontë. a chainless soul

—, juli

emily brontë, wuthering heights
plato, euthypro, apology & crito
byung-chul han, vita contemplativa
byung-chul han, psychopolitiek
cees nooteboom, philip en de anderen
elizabeth strout, anything is possible 

—, augustus

the analog sea review number two
joke j. hermsen, stil de tijd
thomas hardy, tess of the d'urbervilles
michel de montaigne, the complete essays

—, september 

ralph waldo emerson, essays and lectures
hannah arendt, the origins of totalitarianism
clarice lispector, an apprenticeship or the book of pleasures en near to the wild heart