There was once a place on the erstwhile internet called "Seen Reading" (which seems now to have become a book, because, sure, I guess, let's print off the whole internet!). The premise was a brief observation of a person, usually on public transit, who was reading a book, noticing what page they were on in that book, and then quoting on that page.
This premise of seeing where a person was - both in their reading journey of a particular book and in transit - I suppose it's a bit fanciful, but it feels like we might gain some insight (imperfect and incomplete to be sure into a person who we see where they are in their journey.
When Tim asked me (a bunch of us really) a month or so ago what we were currently reading, I answered him a list of 7 books - a sort of typical number that I'm usually in the middle of. So I thought a current reckoning - not only of books, but of shows (and perhaps any movies too) that I'm in the midst of completing.
I've been on goodreads quite a bit more in 2025 than ever before, because I'm planning on writing a short review of each book I finish this year, not just cataloging them. They have a feature of the "currently reading" list called 'tabled', so I'll go through my active reads and watches, and then see if I can complete a catalog of tabled texts as well:
Books
- Light in August, by William Faulkner
- Frank Talk: The Inside Stories of Zappa's Other People, by Andrew Greenaway
- I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger
- The Hunting Party, by Lucy Foley
- Plagues Upon the Earth: Diseases and the Course of Human History, by Kyle Harper
Shows
- Dune: Prophecy, Season 1
- Laid, Season 1
- Fast Friends, hosted by Whitney Cummings
- Star Trek: Prodigy, Season 2
- The Decameron, created by Kathleen Jordan
- No Good Deed, starring Ray Romano & Lisa Kudrow
- mr. & mrs. smith, Season 1
- The New Yorker Presents, Season 1
Movies
- The Raven, starring John Cusack
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring the BeeGees!
tabled
