Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, translated by Gregory Hays
I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.
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A Dance with Dragons – George R R Martin
(Note, in case some of this doesn’t make sense in the future, this post was written on September 25 2022)
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
The meanest thing I can say about this novel is to just ask the question “why do we demonize one-hit wonders anyway?”
The Book – Kieth Houston
It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.
Antica Madre – Valerio Massimo Manfredi
A DNF. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.
Word and Object – Willard Van Orman Quine
Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.
Heaven’s River – Dennis E. Taylor
When I was a kid, I could pick up a book that I had put down, even months later, and
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
Here is a book with some hard truths that no one wants to hear.
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The Talented Mr. Ripely – Patricia Highsmith
This is an excellent little thriller, that doesn’t seem to fall in the trap of glorifying it’s anti-hero.
Failures in Polymathy 