I’m an avid reader. I like to post book reviews here. I also add extractions of highlights and favorite quotes in the form of JSON payloads created with a tool I wrote called AmaJSON.

2024

  • James by Percival Everett ( ★★★★★ ) | 2024-11-08 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Experience Machine by Andy Clark ( ★★★ ) | 2024-10-24 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst ( ★★★ ) | 2024-10-23 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll ( ★★★★ ) | 2024-10-23 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Narcissist's Playbook: How to Identify, Disarm, and … by Dana Morningstar ( ★★ ) | 2024-10-12 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ( ★★ ) | 2024-02-16 Experienced as a paper Book

  • I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy ( ★★★★ ) | 2024-02-15 Experienced as a paper Book

  • The Evenings by Gerard Reve ( ★★★ ) | 2024-02-05 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson ( ★★★ ) | 2024-02-01 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

    • 2022

  • Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ( ★★★ ) | 2022-08-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Chrysalids by John Wyndham ( ★★★★½ ) | 2022-07-11 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Chocky by John Wyndham ( ★★★★ ) | 2022-07-11 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • "Index, A History of" by Dennis Duncan by Dennis Duncan ( ★★½ ) | 2022-07-11 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya by Ananyo Bhattacharya ( ★★ ) | 2022-07-11 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims ( ★★★ ) | 2022-05-29 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • "Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama" by Bob Odenkirk by Bob Odenkirk ( ★★★ ) | 2022-04-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • South to America by Imani Perry by Imani Perry ( ★★★ ) | 2022-04-07 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Seven Games by Oliver Roeder by Oliver Roeder ( ★★★★ ) | 2022-03-23 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • "Betrayal of Anne Frank" by Rosemary Sullivan by Rosemary Sullivan ( ★★★ ) | 2022-03-16 Experienced as a paper Book

  • "Only Yesterday" by Frederick Allen by Frederick Allen ( ★★★ ) | 2022-03-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

    • 2021

  • The Quiet American by Graham Greene ( ★★★★ ) | 2021-10-14 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Unveiled by Yasmine Mohammed ( ★★★ ) | 2021-09-01 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse ( ★★★★ ) | 2021-07-15 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Neuromancer by William Gibson ( ★★★★ ) | 2021-07-07 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Rereading "Watchmen" 26 Years Later by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins ( ★★★★★ ) | 2021-06-17 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ( ★★★★ ) | 2021-01-13 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Conscious by Annaka Harris ( ★★★ ) | 2021-01-13 Experienced as a paper Book

    • 2020

  • Vacationland by John Hodgman ( ★★★★½ ) | 2020-10-29 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman by Donald Hoffman ( ★★★ ) | 2020-10-21 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • From the Mixed-Up Files Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg ( ★★★★ ) | 2020-02-24 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky ( ★★★ ) | 2020-01-29 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Face It by Debbie Harry ( ★★ ) | 2020-01-29 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang ( ★★★★ ) | 2020-01-29 Experienced as a paper Book

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers ( ★★★★½ ) | 2020-01-29 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller ( ★★★★ ) | 2020-01-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Circe by Madeline Miller ( ★★★★½ ) | 2020-01-11 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

    • 2019

  • Lost Connections by Johann Hari by Johann Hari ( ★★★★ ) | 2019-11-16 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady ( ★★★ ) | 2019-11-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • The Art of Logic by Eugenia Chang ( ) | 2019-08-12 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in English by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-08-05 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ( ★★★★ ) | 2019-07-09 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ( ★★★ ) | 2019-07-05 Experienced as a paper Book

  • In Pieces by Sally Field by Sally Field ( ★★★★ ) | 2019-07-05 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

  • Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan ( ★★ ) | 2019-07-05 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan by Michael Pollan ( ★★★ ) | 2019-07-03 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 3 / 5.0

  • Americannah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( ★★★★ ) | 2019-07-03 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-06-24 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Inspectional Read: Raising Kids Who Read by Daniel T. Willingham ( ★★★ ) | 2019-06-22 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ( ★★★★★ ) | 2019-06-21 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Inspectional Read: Why Don't Students Like School by Daniel T. Willingham ( ★★★ ) | 2019-06-08 Experienced as a paper Book

  • How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-04-28 Experienced as a paper Book

  • Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-03-26 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My … by Alan Alda ( ★★★ ) | 2019-03-25 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Here Is New York by E.B. White ( ★★★★★ ) | 2019-03-25 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck ( ★★★½ ) | 2019-03-25 Experienced as an Audiobook Provides notes in JSON format Audio Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh ( ★★ ) | 2019-02-14 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

  • American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ( ★★★★★ ) | 2019-02-12 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

  • Zone One by Colson Whitehead ( ★★★ ) | 2019-02-08 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-02-06 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Prescience in Dune by Frank Herbert ( N/A ) | 2019-01-22 Experienced as a paper Book

  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ( ★★★★½ ) | 2019-01-15 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

    • 2018

  • Educated by Tara Westover ( ★★★★½ ) | 2018-12-21 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou ( ★★★★½ ) | 2018-12-19 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

  • E.B. White on Dogs by E.B. White ( ★★★ ) | 2018-12-16 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

  • Deep Work by Cal Newport ( ★★½ ) | 2018-12-04 Experienced as a paper Book

  • The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer ( ★★★★ ) | 2018-10-06 Experienced as a paper Book

  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami ( ★★★ ) | 2018-09-23 Experienced as a paper Book Provides notes in JSON format

  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders ( ★★★★½ ) | 2018-09-22 Experienced as an Audiobook Audio Rating: 5.0 / 5.0