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Books read in November. Five favorites with astericks.
Thoreau: A Sublime Life by Maximilien Le Roy
Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill*
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis
War Trash by Ha Jin
Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
The Great Thoughts compiled by George Seldes
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono*
Harvest by Jean Giono
Melville: A Novel by Jean Giono
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
Henry Marsh And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
A Sense of Wonder edited by Brian Doyle
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd*
The Art of Living by Grant Snider
Every Man For Himself And God Against All by Werner Herzog*
Read On- Life Stories by Rosalind Reiser
The White Darkness by David Grann
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness…by David Grann
Walk In My Combat Boots edited by James Patterson*
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -Ray Bradbury
UO part of new international collective focused on sports …Note Sebastian Coe’s two jobs.
A prominent feature at Loughborough University is Bastard Gates, an entrance named after some worthy Loughborough professor, William Bastard. Further down the rabbit hole, I learned William the Conqueror was also known as William the Bastard. And that there are lots of folks named Bastard including some kid at an Illinois community college, Billy Bastard.
Books read in October. Five favorites with astericks.
The Longest Race by Kara Goucher
A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel*
The Immortalists: Charles Lindberg, Dr. Alexis Carrel… by David M. Friedman
Gladiator: Fighting For Life, Glory, And Freedom by Ben Hubbard
San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldberg
The Convict and Other Stories by James Lee Burke
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill*
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? by Studs Terkel
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill*
The Stranger at the Palazzo D’Oro and other stories by Paul Theroux
The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner
In the Pond by Ha Jin
Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill*
A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero