Agendas

I. Non-Fiction

a. Montaigne by Stefan Zweig - A biography of the Father of Essays, according to Ryan Holiday (spoiler alert) Michel de Montaigne lived in tumultuous times and seeked inner peace and meaning thru his writing.

b. How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene - I love the brain.

c. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg - I need more improvement in listening to people.

d. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose - I want to be a decent writer.

e. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke - One of those people whose quotes I always use to frame my thinking (to sound pa-deep hahaha), but only read one of his books hehe.

f. The Science of Writing Characters by Kira Anne Pelican - I want to be a decent writer.

g. Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller - The last break-up actually devastated me. I'm okay now but I hope I can become a better lover by learning more about how securely-attached people do things.

h. The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist -  I bought this book because it was mention in the The Marginalian blog. Look at this quote and read it slowly ughhh:

"The world we know cannot be wholly mind-independent, and it cannot be wholly mind-dependent… What is required is an attentive response to something real and other than ourselves, of which we have only inklings at first, but which comes more and more into being through our response to it — if we are truly responsive to it. We nurture it into being; or not. In this it has something of the structure of love."

This book is massive but I have to read it sooner or later. I need to know what this guy is thinking.

i. Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach - Rereading. One of those solid books about meditation, self-development, and teachings of Buddhism.

j. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt - Rereading. It explores happiness thru the lens of ancient philosophy.


II. Fiction

a. Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan - Not in the photo. My housemate bought all 15 books dahil kinancel ng Amazon yun show. Sobra kaming frustrated hahaha. So I promised her I will start reading the books this year (slowly).


III. Bawal bumili bagong libro. 

New books distract me from actual reading. Tsaka need ko i-allocate yun funds sa ibang part ng life ko na napabayaan ko na. I look too drab. Gusto ko magpakilay haha at magpatattoo. Lol. Thus a moratorium is necessary. 


Good luck to me!

reading agenda this coming 2026 (and probably up to mid 2027)