Last night I finished the "Roots" section of The Overstory. With its elevated syntax and diction to describe relative mundanity I was reminded of the film Oppenheimer (elevated visuals/music/editing for its mundane subjects). I'm tempted to listen to the Oppenheimer soundtrack while reading "Trunk."

Top 📚 of 2025:

Reread: The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
New read: The Passenger (McCarthy)
Nonfiction: The Man Who Knew Infinity (Kanigel)
Guidebook: Reading Like a Writer (Prose)
Released in 2025: The Correspondent (Evans)
Stephen King: The Green Mile
Americana: Giants in the Earth (Rolvaag)

A record high: 7 DNFs this year. An indication of branching further into the reaches of literature where something surprisingly wonderful may await.

For those of you that don't believe in time travel: here's Joseph Conrad describing me in 1899's Heart of Darkness

"... his head was as bald as the palm of my hand; but his hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality..."

Read my first @stephenking.bsky.social last week: On Writing

Yesterday's mission: a copy of Carrie from a local bookstore

Mission outcome:
- Carrie
- 'Salem's Lot
- The Green Mile
- Anna Karenina
- The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories
- Folk Horror collection
- Complete Grimm's Fairytales

Took the plunge: this morning I wrote the first paragraph of my first attempt at a novel.