This year I read 50 books. I have not even started writing my 2020 book report, so I am making a preview in pictures: both a preview of the books I will be writing about and a preview of what I will be reading and discussing in the coming months.
This first picture is the next book in several of the book discussion groups I am participating in. Starting from the top is "The Promise of Politics" the current book in the Virtual Reading Group at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Next is The Mandrake, a play by Niccolo Machiavelli, which is the next book we discuss in the World Conquest Book Club.
The next two books are part of the Writers in Residences series that is hosted by Franklin and Marshall College and local synagogues, including the one I attend: Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster, Pa. The discussion of "Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes" by Jeremy Benstein was a week ago. "Red Sea Spies" by Raffi Berg will be in February.
"Some Assembly Required" by Neil Shubin is the next book in the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College. I have been part of that group for more than a decade and a half. Stephen Jay Gould sat in with the group when he visited the college in the 1990s.
"The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht is the next book in a discussion group of ESL volunteers and others.
"Morality" by Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is the topic of a weekly discussion group at Shaarai Shomayim Synagogue.
I will say a lot more about these books in the eventual book report.
Happy New Year!
