It’s Time to 📚 Read with Wine 🍷

🤖 “Cheers to vibe coding!”

Published on Tom Liam Lynch • Sep 4

July 2026

A Quantitative Look at Emily Wilson's Odyssey

With so much criticism of Wilson's translation in the air, perhaps data can help improve the discussion.

Jul 23 • Tom Liam Lynch

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April 2026

Unquestioning and Uninteresting, Mr. Stevens in Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

Counting question marks in this award-winning novel offered new insights into an otherwise humdrum read

Apr 23 • Tom Liam Lynch

March 2026

Lucy’s Anthem: What Music Reveals in A Room with a View

A quantitative reading of E.M. Forster’s novel shows that musical diction does more than decorate the prose. It charts a young woman’s liberation.

Mar 22 • Tom Liam Lynch

Read All of Shakespeare's Works at Once

I built a tool that will let you compare word frequencies across all of the Bard's plays. It's dope.

Mar 16 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Wilde Cards is the Literary Game Readers Have Been Waiting For

Can you outwit great authors? Go Wilde!

Mar 14 • Tom Liam Lynch

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February 2026

Tolkien’s Lesson on Computationality and Creativity

–Whilst Smoking His Pipe

Feb 8 • Tom Liam Lynch

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BardBots: Literature Meets Robotics in the Classroom

BardBots is a project in which students are introduced to key concepts in computational thinking via an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and robots.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Classroom Resources (Updated)

Here's where I try to keep up with interesting resources for integrating CS and ELA.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

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January 2026

Introducing Plotting Plots

A look back at how it all started.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

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Make Some Plots

Here you will find direct links to interactive data visualizations for a wide variety of books. Enjoy.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

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January 2025

In The Hunger Games Love Triangle, Did Gale Ever Really Stand a Chance?

Check out how my quantitative analysis of Katniss’ love interests in Suzanne Collins's blockbuster novel lead me to see who Gale really is to Katniss.

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch