Bookshelf
These are my notes on books I’ve read.
You can click on each one to get to the corresponding post about that book. There’s a varying level of detail in each post; some just have a couple of quick thoughts and maybe some clippings like The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, HoffmanN, and some have very detailed notes like Thinking, Fast and SlowN.
2026
2025
★
Unfinished
2024
★
★
★★
"The games we shall consider are in spirit closer to Chess than to Football."
★
★★
"While quantum mechanics was invented a century ago to solve technical problems in physics, today it can be fruitfully explained from an extremely different perspective: as part of the history of ideas, in math, logic, computation, and philosophy, about the limits of the knowable."
★★
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
★★
★
★
"Erdős first did mathematics at the age of three, but for the last twenty-five years of his life, since the death of his mother, he put in nineteen-hour days, keeping himself fortified with 10 to 20 milligrams of Bezedrine or Ritalin, strong espresso, and caffeine tablets."
★
Unfinished
2023
★
★
"I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?"
★
★
★
Unfinished
2022
★★
★
★
"For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us... edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten."
Unfinished
2021
★★
★
★★
★
★★
★★
★
★★
★★
★
Unfinished
2020
★★
★
Unfinished
Pre-2020
"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
★★
