This is a list of books I have purchased physical copies of in a whirlwind of intellectual curiosity and collector's mania which apparently died down by the time I got home.

I have wide-ranging interests as an appraiser of humanity, eclecticism created by a maladjusted isolated childhood without much access to electronic entertainment, frequent visits to a good+cheap used bookstore near a college, and a post-secondary humanities education that was so clearly doomed to never produce a career I was never tempted to make my advisors happy by mirroring their ideological obligations.

If you lost the thread in the long sentence above, good! I'm not wearing a trenchcoat while holding you at gunpoint in a Colorado school library; you're free to go.

These are generally not foundational books for any topic, although some of them I bought because people I wanted to sleep with recommended them. If you notice any New York Times bestsellers written for adult babies or contemporary fiction by American authors, now you know why.

I typically read 5-6 books at a time in some kind of loose dialog with each other, my opinions of books are revised continuously by reading other books. So, this list seems like a good way to organize and cluster my reading which has lapsed due to being in a cute new summer relationship as well as falling into several of my favorite old crippling addictions.

Some of the reviews might be audio or even video, if I ever find a ring light that smooths over my blotchy nearly middle aged skin instead of highlighting it. I'm terribly vain in addition to being discursive. You're wasting your time if you expect me not to waste yours.