These recent acquisitions were shelved because my current stack is so tall that my youngest gently joked about it throughout her recent visit. She was not wrong. I also shelved The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro; 1989), which I (re)read with Commonplace Philosophy (this book was even more beautiful three-plus decades later), and the subtle, haunting Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Hiromi Kamakami; 2025 — review here). I’ve shelved Stephen Fry’s Troy (2021) for now because I am working though Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and secondary sources for study group and David Copperfield (Charles Dickens; 1850) for a UChicago Graham School course, plus Latin and music practice. The currently reading stack now looks a wee bit more manageable.
Nerdishly 
I had to shelve a few from TBR pile last week as well. I have had to come to the disappointed but long suspected realization that I cannot read as many books simultaneously as I thought I could. It wounded my pride, but I think my reading will benefit so it’s worth it.
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