Bookshelf of the Bird ποΈ
Books that changed my internal model of the world.
Herman Hesse (Glass Bead Game, Narcissus and Goldmund)
John Williams (Stoner, Butcherβs Crossing)
Christopher Alexander (The Timeless Way of Being, A Pattern Language)
Shirley Hazzard (The Transit of Venus)
Stephen Zweig (Beware of Pity, World of Yesterday)
Rachel Cusk (Outline Trilogy)
Greg Egan (Axiomatic)
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)
Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths)
Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life and Others)
Virginia Woolf (To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway)
Robert Caro (Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing)
Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)
Benjamin Labatut (When We Cease to Understand the World)
Robert Hass (Apple Trees at Olema - Poems)
Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem, Dark Forest)
Lawrence Weschler (Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees)
Brian Eno (A Year with Swollen Appendices)
Hayao Miyazaki (Starting Point, Turning Point)
Magda Szabo (Abigail, Hungarian)
Other interests include architecture (Le Corbusier, Olmsted, Alexander), painting (watercolor and large scale acrylics), and fitness (weightlifting, pilates, tennis). My other goal: I am trying to watch more films this year!