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Dad, data engineer, novelist, nature lover. Living in Ann Arbor, MI.

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2025 Reading Goal

Success! Sam Firke has read 24 of 12 books.

Donna Tartt: The Little Friend (Paperback, 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)

A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his …

Stayed up late to finish it, woke up thinking about it still. I'm struggling with the ending. If you've read it, let's talk!

Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Serviceberry (AudiobookFormat, Simon & Schuster Audio)

A pleasant rumination

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I'm already in the bag on this one. Heck, I even harvest serviceberries. Though if I'd had this on my journey maybe I would have come along faster. Very different than "The Overstory" but a similar political vibe, questioning the sensibility of capitalism by comparing to ecosystems and how Indigenous economies have operated for millenia.

I gave my left kidney to a stranger last year and this book would explain it to people who don't understand why. Essentially: I store my surplus organ in my brother's abdomen.

Sam Harris: Waking Up (2014)

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris …

I disagree with much of what Harris says as a public intellectual figure. But I find compelling his synthesis of Buddhist practice and neuroscience into secular non-dual mindfulness, so giving this a shot.

The third book in this vein I've read this year, after Mcmindfulness and Why Buddhism Is True