The reading room
Books you can talk with.
Each book here has read itself. Ask it anything and it answers from its own pages, naming the chapter it drew from. No summaries borrowed from elsewhere, no invented quotes. Five questions per book are free.
38 books ready to answer
A Double Star System
Shaun J. Apple
Two stars in mutual orbit become a metaphor for love, distance, memory, and human gravity. Exact, intimate, and highly quotable, this is Shaun J Apple’s most cohesive literary poetry collection.
A Life Experience
Shaun J. Apple
Build For Bad Weeks
Shaun J. Apple
Some mornings the body decides the day for you. Here is how to build a life that outlasts them.
Captain Appletastic’s Photo-by-Photo Adventure!
Shaun J. Apple
50+ real-photo adventures to rhyme, dare, and share. Zip your WOW Bag and go!
Drugtopia
Shaun J. Apple
A provocative future-country novel about autonomy, public health, and the human cost of drug policy.
Eons In A Moment (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
Before the platforms, before the memoir, before the sight began to go, there were these poems.
I Agree
Shaun J. Apple
Please read carefully. You already clicked accept.
Impermanence
Shaun J. Apple
Twenty-two poems about change, mortality, loneliness, travel, technology, desire, and staying awake inside uncertainty.
In Arrears
Shaun J. Apple
What we owe, and what is owed to us. Debt, in every currency that counts.
Inception: A Descent
Shaun J. Apple
A controlled fall through the layers of a life, down to the one idea holding all of it up.
Intimate An Experience (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
Memories found while spelunking dreams. Intimacy, rendered as pure nostalgia.
Life Experience Too
Shaun J. Apple
A neon mixtape of bright, bruised poems: electric, unbowed, and unwilling to vanish.
Life Is Tasteless (LIT)
Shaun J. Apple
Life is food, and food feeds life. This is a book about the appetite for all of it.
Love Life Is Timeless (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
Go away and come back. Love. Now. Please. An incantation for human connection.
NGL: Nothing Better Than This Book (Except Sex and Food)!
Shaun J. Apple
Nothing better than this book. Except sex. And food.
Nobody Disposable
Shaun J. Apple
When the institutions chose fear, a room of strangers chose the truth, and kept people alive.
Notes From 3AM
Shaun J. Apple
Poems from the hour when honesty has nowhere left to hide.
Oxygen Turned Into Chapters
Shaun J. Apple
A life converted into pages, one breath at a time.
Please Let Me Be Seen
Shaun J. Apple
Selected poems in two movements, Seen and Unseen. A book about being witnessed as the seeing goes.
Poetry, Even When
Shaun J. Apple
A compact poetry collection in three movements, traveling from near loss toward recovered sight. Tender without softening, it explores family, distance, fear, and the truths that remain when almost everything else changes.
Premature Poetry
Shaun J. Apple
Poetry that arrived before it was ready, and is better for it.
Proof I Was Here
Shaun J. Apple
The marks a person leaves when the record itself might not survive.
Slices of Life Experience
Shaun J. Apple
If you have ever felt too much and said too little, start here.
Smithereens In A Moment (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
If Eons In A Moment is the instant that holds still, this is the one that breaks apart.
States (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
Dated entries from a mind's weather. Every poem is a state he was caught in.
STAY
Shaun J. Apple
Love is not found. It is made. This is the case for the most countercultural idea left.
STUNNED
Shaun J. Apple
An honest memoir of leaving abuse, confronting childhood trauma, and learning to trust one’s own mind again.
SWAY (Concise)
Shaun J. Apple
After eye surgery, the doctors told him to rest his eyes. He made a book instead.
SWAY (Verbose)
Shaun J. Apple
The whole sway, unabridged: the long nights the short version leaves out.
The Blur of Life
Shaun J. Apple
The world out of focus, and everything that stays legible anyway.
The Dog Who Overthought Everything
Shaun J. Apple
A worried little dog learns that an overthinking mind is still a good one.
The Thirteen Original Sins Jaded (2027)
Shaun J. Apple
One day, dawn to midnight, an eighteen-year-old set out to empty his whole head onto the page. He did.
Truthmonster
Shaun J. Apple
What happens to a person who keeps telling the truth after the truth turns monstrous.
Unaccompanied
Shaun J. Apple
On solitude, and the self you meet when no one is traveling beside you.
Unmatched
Shaun J. Apple
The case for illiquid love in a frictionless age.
We Thought These Were Modern Times
Shaun J. Apple
Political poems for the age of enshittification, from someone who helped build the internet and then watched it turn.
What Can I Say?
Shaun J. Apple
The book people quote back to each other.
Working Distance
Shaun J. Apple
The digital nomad shelf sells distance as freedom. This is the report of what distance actually costs.