From the bookshelf: August 2023
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from August 2023.
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Books (along with a smattering of movies and plays) that I have found of interest and want to share
The long shelf life of legends and lies
Myth America helps us see the past to understand where we stand and where we might go.
Late to the party
This bleak, prosaic story of duplicity and espionage is one of the greatest spy novels of all time.
The power of mythology
“Vodka is for the skinny and scotch is for the strivers and bourbon is for the homesick.”
Mother of Simbel
The thrilling story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt and the saving of Abu Simbel.
Genius, hubris, tragedy
Thoughts on Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on the anniversary of the bombing.
A revelatory journey to find the nation’s soul
A meditation on the work to be done to gain a more honest rendering of the country.
From the bookshelf: July 2023
Each month I have a goal of reading five books. Here’s my list from July 2023.
Destroying what is beautiful
The second in Donna Leon’s long-running Commissario Guio Brunetti mystery series.
If this was lost, let us all be lost always
For poet Mary Oliver, attention is the beginning of devotion.
MORE TO COME... 