I am finally getting around to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Tom Send a noteboard - 02/04/2014 07:34:46 PM
I also started the Decameron in Italian but haven't been incredibly enthused to finish it yet, so it's sitting in my reading pile along with de Toqueville, which I've been sort of lazily working through. I also have a half-finished history of Ireland that I might try to finish.
I think I would like to finish all those books that I started before adding anything, but I suspect that I won't finish them all before adding something. The idea is that if I shave it down to 2-3 books instead of 4-5, it will be an improvement.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Well, it's now April 2. No fools, excepting those who read. So what are you reading, fools?
- 02/04/2014 07:50:50 AM
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A few histories and novels of World War I are likely
- 02/04/2014 07:52:56 AM
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Curious, why are you so interested in WWI?
- 09/04/2014 07:52:31 PM
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I think it's because 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the war...
- 09/04/2014 08:08:19 PM
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When I was a history grad student, I focused on German cultural/religious 1914-1939
- 10/04/2014 03:35:30 AM
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On the contrary - they are one of the few things that still has some semi-decent activity.
- 02/04/2014 07:12:53 PM
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Have you read the Veronica Wedgwood history of the Thirty Years' War?
- 02/04/2014 07:31:51 PM
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No. Haven't read anything on the Thirty Years' War other than the first few chapters of this one.
- 02/04/2014 07:54:11 PM
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Having a lot of fun now with Felix Palma's "El Mapa del Tiempo" / The Map of Time. *NM*
- 10/04/2014 08:45:14 PM
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I am finally getting around to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- 02/04/2014 07:34:46 PM
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still reading words of radiance. slow going because not much time. *NM*
- 06/04/2014 02:39:56 AM
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Just blew through 3 books of Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman, very good
- 08/04/2014 04:38:13 PM
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- 08/04/2014 06:33:56 PM
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Karen Joy Fowler is a must-read writer for me
- 10/04/2014 03:38:03 AM
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She might be for me, now. I had not heard of her until about a month ago.
- 10/04/2014 09:15:04 PM
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It's not very weird, at least compared to some of his other recent works
- 11/04/2014 05:40:09 AM
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