Books read in February. Favorites with astericks.

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton*
How To Live or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell*
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Knah Hahn
The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography*
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
El Greco to Valazquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip II by Sara Schroth
Right Things, Right Now. Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds by Ryan Holiday

Bach: Essays On His Life And Music by Christoph Wolff
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing With Me? Montaigne and Being In Touch With Life by Saul Frampton*

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Couples Classic 5K on the streets of Eugene, 29:10.6. 1st in age group. Oldest (oddest?) participant.

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Books read in January. Favorites with astericks.

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer*
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer*
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
Shrapnel In The Heart: Letters…from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer
A Line Out For a Walk by Joseph Epstein
In A Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage by Joseph Epstein
Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather
This I Believe : Edited by J Allison and V. Merrick*
This I Believe II: Edited by J. Allison and V. Merrick
Karla’s Choice: A John Le Carre Novel by Nick Harkaway
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil M. Gorsuch
Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles
T. Munger Edited by Peter T. Kaufman*
Plain and Simple by Sue Bender
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Ngu
In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you know, the more places you’ll go. ~Dr. Seuss

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Books read in December. Favorites with astericks.

Friendship: An Expose by Joseph Epstein*
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel
Second Drafts of History: Essays by Lance Morrow
Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead Revisited by Paula Byrne
Roctogenarians: Late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumpths by Mo Rocca
One Man’s America: The pleasures and provocations of our singular nation by George F. Will
Death Need Not Be Fatal by Malachy McCourt
A Passion For Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury edited by H. Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Edward Hopper by Lloyd Goodrich*
Going Solo by Roald Dahl*
Over To You by Roald Dahl
More About Boy: Roald Dahl’s Takes from Childhood
Mind And Matter: A Life in Math and Football by John Urschel and Louisa Thomas
Players: How Sports Became a Business by Matthew Futterman
The Legend of Bear Bryant by Mickey Herskowitz
The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller

The contents of someone’s bookcase are part or his history, like an ancestral bookcase. -Anatole Broyard

Jingle Bells 5K at Maurie Jacobs Park. 29:23.1. 1st in age group. Oldest competitor of the 216 participants over the two races that day.

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Video game developers are starting to grapple with the real-life, planet-warming consequences of immersing gamers in fantasy worlds.

More than 3 billion people — a third of humanity — play video games. Their consoles, computers, tablets and smartphones use more electricity than midsize countries. Video games in the United States alone create more greenhouse pollution than 5 million cars. And the legion of gamers and power-hungry devices is only expected to grow.

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