Bōchord - lit. book hoard. From Old English bōc (book) and hord (hoard):
An Anglo-Saxonism referring to a collection of books; a library.
Like any good hoard, my library, spanning the physical and digital, is messy, uncategorized, and traversed with a course path. While I endeavour to stay focused when I can, as can easily be gathered by this very blog, I am haphazard at best in my Readings. And I would not have it any other way.
Current Non-Fiction Read: The War of Nerves by Martin Sixsmith (2021)
Current Fiction Read: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
Study Book: Remembering Traditional Hanzi 1: How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters by James W. Heisig & Timothy W. Richardson (2009)
Past Reads:
- Endgame: Bobby Fisher's Remarkable Rise and Fall by Frank Brady (2012)
- I. Asimov by Isaac Asimov (1994)
- Man of Wars: William Howard Russell of THE TIMES by Alan Hankinson (1982)
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
- Politics of Design edited by Ruben Pater (2016)
- The Rustlers of West Fork by Louis L'Amour (1951)
- The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac (1944; 2014)
- Rebels by Aris Roussinos (2014)
- The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (1978)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1951)
- Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict edited by Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh, and Jaym Gates (2018)
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (2004)
- The Homeless Mind by Peter L. Berger, Brigitte Berger and Hansfried Kellner (1973)
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (translation by Rex Warner) (1954)
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018)
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (2021 with introduction and annotations by Robin Waterfield)
- Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre (2023)