God of the Woods: a little Secret History, a little Claudia (unknown childhood favorite by one Barbara Wallace), a little town v. country, and also one of the last books my friend Jason read before he died. #read #speakingconfidentially

Killing people is wrong. I advocate a lower human population achieved by mass by individual choice. The human population will collapse, but whether catastrophically, with mass suffering, or quickly, soon, and with less suffering, is up to each of us. #VHE #speakingconfidentially

Book cover vertically split between green and yellow tones (left) and pink (red), depicting a feminine figure (left) and a masculine one (right).

Tan Twan Eng's House of Doors is lovely, engaging, with wonderful turns of phrase (occasionally too flowery), blending fact and fiction, fiction and fact, because really, who can tell. #reading #speakingconfidentially

Listening to Richard Powers’s Time of Our Singing, one of whose main characters sing Lieder. Reading Tan Twan Eng’s House of Doors, whose MC once accompanied a singer of Lieder. All books are one book. #aba1b #speakingconfidentially

Okay how about this approach. #ljh #speakingconfidentially