A Selfish Heart’s Notebook
What I wrote, and what I read.
Fragments and letters left as they were written, the people they were about, and every book that was open at the time.
Five rooms
Where things are.
- 01everything written
Notebook
Fragments and letters. Short, unpolished, mine.
- 02people & places
The World
The people and places the writing happened to.
- 03the book, so far
The Manuscript
The part pretending it will eventually become a book.
- 04the library
The Black Shelf
Every book I own, in the order I would read them and on the shelf it lives on.
- 05what this is
About...
Why a reading library sits next to a diary, who is writing, and one old machine.
The first shelf
Ten books before everything else.
001Man's Search for Meaning The Classic Tribute to Hope from the HolocaustViktor E. Frankl
002The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
003Make It Stick The Science of Successful LearningPeter C. Brown; Henry L. Roediger III; Mark A. McDaniel
004How to Take Smart Notes One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and ThinkingSönke Ahrens
005The Bluest EyeToni Morrison
006Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenCaroline Criado Perez
007Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional DisordersAaron T. Beck
008The Denial of DeathErnest Becker
009AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation ModelsChip Huyen
010All about Love: the Deluxe Collector's Edition New Visionsbell hooks
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