library

currently reading

print

  • Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly
  • Hit Factories: A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop by Karl Whitney
  • The Empty Space by Peter Brook
  • Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Ballantyne

audio

  • Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, Discworld #13 (narrated by Andy Serkis)
  • Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (audio drama)

up next

print

  • The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
  • Self-Tracking by Dawn Nafus and Gina Neff

audio

  • Faust Eric by Terry Pratchett, Discworld #9 (audio drama)
  • Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, Discworld #6

recently completed

print

  • Ways of Seeing by John Berger
  • Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell, from 404Ink's Inklings series

audio

  • Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers (audio drama)
  • The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

latest acquisitions

  • Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell, from 404Ink's Inklings series
  • Ways of Seeing by John Berger
  • Jamilah at the End of the World by Mary-Lou Zeitoun
  • The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
  • On His Royal Badness: The Life and Legacy of Prince’s Wardrobe by Casci Ritchie, from 404Ink's Inklings series

owned & unread

things that i have on my shelf that i haven't read yet, but plan on reading in the future.

  • The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
  • Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Ballantyne
  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson
  • Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible by Daniel Lukes, Larissa Wodtke, and Rhian E. Jones
  • Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory by David Toop
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Music: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cook
  • Memory: A Very Short Introduction by {author}

favourite books

  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Antigonick by Anne Carson
  • Ways of Seeing by John Berger

discworld (completed)

i have a personal goal to read (or listen to) the entire discworld series. i am not following any prescribed path, but following my wimsey (as the detective would say). these are the ones i have completed so far. i expect this project to take three to four years, at minimum.

  • The Colour of Magic, #1
  • The Light Fantastic, #2
  • Equal Rites, #3
  • Mort, #4
  • Sourcery, #5
  • Guards! Guards!, #8
  • Moving Pictures, #10
  • The Truth, #25
  • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, #28
  • Monstrous Regiment, #31

wishlist

books i intend to acquire & read in the future.

  • Anamnesis by {author}
  • Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music by Kyle Devine
  • Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice by Mark Peter Wright
  • Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions by Owen Hatherley, from Repeater Books
  • This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
  • The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
  • Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop by Arusa Qureshi, from from 404Ink's Inklings series
  • Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli by Karl Thomas Smith, from from 404Ink's Inklings series
  • Sandman by Neil Gaiman (audio drama)

scotland & scottish authors

books i have completed on scotland or written by a scottish author.

  • Scotland: A Very Short Introduction by Rab Houston
  • Theatre & Scotland by Trish Reid

zines

zines i have in my personal zine collection

  • Scotland: A Very Short Introduction by Rab Houston
  • Theatre & Scotland by Trish Reid
  • {under construction}