Reading in Progress
I tend to have a few books going at the same time. This page is just what I'm reading right now.
Last updated: June 21, 2026
Land
Tomás, a Irish mapmaker and Great Famine survivor who lost his entire family, is commissioned by the British Ordnance Survey in 1865 to map post-famine Ireland. Hr has a mystical epiphany at an ancient spring, leading him to create an unofficial map that documents the land using the native Irish language and local cultural landmarks, rejecting British colonial perspectives.
Eurotrash
Christian, a middle-aged writer named after his author, travels through Switzerland with his 80-year-old terminally-ill mother—an alcoholic and prescription drug addict just discharged from a psychiatric institution—carrying CHF 600,000 in a plastic bag to hand out to strangers, while reckoning with their family's Nazi-era arms dealing fortune and the transgenerational guilt of their unethical legacy.
Villa Coco
A 21-year-old American, broke and directionless, takes a job in the Tuscan countryside as assistant to a wealthy, strong-willed aristocrat, expecting to catalogue the contents of her beautiful crumbling mansion, but instead finds himself entertaining an endless carousel of eccentric guests, attending funerals to steal urns, and helping Coco's final plan to reunite with her lost love, with the Italian countryside is a main character.