I am currently reading:
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Dumbbell training Allen Hedrick (2019), Human Kinetics, Champaign |
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Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon (2024), Crown, New York |
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Practical SQL, 2nd Edition: A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling with Data Anthony DeBarros (2022), No Starch Press, San Francisco |
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Modern Mandarin Chinese grammar: a practical guide Claudia Ross, Jing-heng Sheng Ma, Pei-Chia Chen, Baozhang He, Meng Ye (2024), Routledge, London |
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Clojure for the brave and true: learn the ultimate language and become a better programmer Daniel Higginbotham (2015), No Starch Press, San Francisco |
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RELAX NG Eric Van der Vlist (2004), O’Reilly, Sebastopol |
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The book of batch scripting: from fundamentals to advanced automation Jack McLarney (2024), No Starch Press, San Francisco |
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Cibola burn James S. A. Corey (2015), Orbit, New York |
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Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self Jay L. Garfield (2022), Princeton University Press, Princeton |
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Practical Common Lisp Peter Seibel (2005), Apress, New York |
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An introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp Robert J. Chassell (2025), GNU Press, Boston |
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Programming in Lua Roberto Ierusalimschy (2016), Lua.org, Rio de Janeiro |
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A journey into yin yoga Travis Eliot (2019), Human Kinetics, Champaign |
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《中国佛教史》 蒋维乔 (2015), 中华书局, 北京 |
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《苍穹浩瀚1：利维坦觉醒》 詹姆斯·S.A.·科里 (2015), 清华大学出版社, 北京 |
Books Read
2025
| Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life that Matters | Bernard Glassman, Rick Fields | 1996 | Bell Tower |
| XQuery for Humanists | Clifford B. Anderson, Joseph Charles Wicentowski | 2020 | Texas A&M University Press |
| XSLT | Doug Tidwell | 2008 | O’Reilly |
| XProc 3.0 Programmer Reference | Erik Siegel | 2020 | XML Press |
| Schematron: a language for validating XML | Erik Siegel | 2022 | XML Press |
| Passing Through the Gateless Barrier: Kōan Practice for Real Life | Huikai, Guo Gu | 2016 | Shambhala |
| Abaddon’s gate | James S. A. Corey | 2014 | Orbit |
| Caliban’s War | James S. A. Corey | 2012 | Orbit |
| Leviathan Wakes | James S. A. Corey | 2012 | Orbit |
| Mastering Emacs | Mickey Petersen | 2025 | www.masteringemacs.org |
| XQuery | Priscilla Walmsley | 2015 | O’Reilly Media |
2024
| Silent Illumination : A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening | Guo Gu | 2021 | Shambhala |
| The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac | 2000 | Penguin Books |
| Backwater Reeds: Zen Buddhist Dharma Talks for the 21st Century | Jeff Shore, Leonie Callaway | 2024 | www.beingwithoutself.org |
| The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza | John Daido Loori | 2002 | Simon and Schuster |
| Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes | Joshua Dittrich | 2024 | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki’s Art of Zen Meditation | Kodo Sawaki | 2020 | Catapult |
| The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo | Kosho Uchiyama, Shohaku Okumura | 2014 | Wisdom Publications |
| To You: Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki | Kōdō Sawaki, Muhō Nöelke, Reihō Jesse Hassach | 2021 | Hohm Press |
| Memoirs of a Birdman | Ludwig Koch | 1955 | Phoenix House Ltd |
| Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice | Mark Peter Wright | 2022 | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| The Eternal Now | Paul Tillich | 2002 | SCM |