Finished reading: Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 📚
Currently reading: Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 📚
Finished reading: Farewell the Trumpets by James/Jan Morris. An extraordinary narrative history — I got to the end of this third volume and was strongly tempted to return to the first volume and start again. 📚
Currently reading: Farewell the Trumpets by James Morris 📚
Finished reading: Pax Britannica:The Climax of an Empire by James Morris 📚
Currently reading: Pax Britannica:The Climax of an Empire by James/Jan Morris 📚
Finished reading: Heaven’s Command by James/Jan Morris 📚
Currently reading: Pax Britannica by James (Jan) Morris. This Folio Society edition is one of my treasures. 📚
Finished reading: Mozart by Jan Swafford. An extraordinary life, an extraordinary book. 📚
Currently reading: Mozart by Jan Swafford 📚
The American National Biography is not as consistently good, but there are some fine entries there too. 📚
Currently reading: Lots of biographies from the Dictionary of National Biography. I love these: Detailed enough to be informative, but readable in one short sitting. Biographical short stories. 📚
Annotating Augustine’s City of God 📚 and listening to Dilla’s Donuts ♫. As one does.
Currently reading: City of God by Augustine of Hippo. Should’ve added this a week ago. 📚
Finished reading: Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. Not Le Guin at her best; I think I’ll do an audio post soon. 📚
Currently reading: The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
Finished reading: The City & the City by China Miéville 📚
Currently reading: The City & the City by China Miéville 📚
Finished reading: Mao II by Don DeLillo. Conceptually fascinating but not wholly successful as a novel. 📚
Currently reading: Mao II by Don DeLillo 📚
Finished reading: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. I should probably re-read this magnificent book every year. 📚
Finished reading: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand. A brilliant book — I should have read it years ago. 📚
Currently reading: The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand 📚
Finished reading: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) by Richard Hofstadter. Eerily relevant to our moment. 📚
Currently reading: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 by Richard Hofstadter 📚