Too much
Reading:
* = for fall-time
** = for Halloween-time
*** = “for relaxing times”
- Dante Alighieri, Paradiso (yes, still)
- Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty
- **Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked this Way Comes
- E. H. Carr, What Is History?
- *Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
- John Cottingham, ed., Western Philosophy (this anthology is terrific; if you only ever read one philosophy book all the way through, let it be this one)
- René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
- ***Charles Dickens, Hard Times
- G. R. Elton, The Practice of History
- E. M. Forster, Maurice
- **Elizabeth Gaskell, Gothic Tales
- Homer, Odyssey (this month’s fantasy book)
- Anne Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
- The New English Bible, M’Cheyne schedule (Kings, Paul, Psalms, Ezekiel)
- Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones (bk. 6 of A Dance to the Music of Time)
- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo (a library copy, barely begun; time is running out)
- **The Marquis de Sade, Justine, a.k.a. The Misfortunes of Virtue (so far, basically Candide)
- Peter Temple, Truth
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake (bk. 5 of the Little House series)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
* = for fall-time
** = for Halloween-time
*** = “for relaxing times”