Too much

Reading:
  • 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
Good grief.

* = for fall-time
** = for Halloween-time
*** = “for relaxing times”