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Showing posts with label books 2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books 2023. Show all posts
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Books of 2023, Part 1

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With just two weeks before the year ends, I should finish my usual fifty books in 52 weeks. I am currently at 47, but very close to the end ...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

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In 1997, the Italian novelist Umberto Eco wrote an essay titled "Ur-Fascism" describing the 14 characteristics of fascism. His lit...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Anxious people. A Novel. By Fredrik Backman.

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  I just finished Anxious People: A novel by Fredrik Backman.   It is hilarious. Really. Actual Laugh Out Loud Hilarious. Below is the firs...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Eternal Life in Very Different Novels

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I just read the novel Eternal Life by Dara Horn. It is a dark, captivating beautiful story of a little girl in Jerusalem at the time Jesus ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Teenager Escapes The Holocaust; Joins the US Army; Returns to Europe to Bring Nazis to Justice

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  Since 2016, I have read a lot of books and articles about The Holocaust, visited nine Nazi death camps and many Holocaust memorials. Last ...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

The English Revolution Re-Examined in a New Book: Spoiler Alert! The Religious Hate was Real

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Oliver Cromwell with the head of Charles I In a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine, Adam Gopnik reviews a new book about the English Re...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Sonnets by William Shakespeare

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Last year I read C.S. Lewis'  English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding drama  and decided to re-read the Sonnets. In his hi...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Putting My Books in Alphabetical Order

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  A month ago, after looking for a book, I decided to re-shelve of my physical books in alphabetical order by author.  In the process, I rem...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall

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  Earlier this year I wrote about my seven favorite books from the fifty I read last year. Tied for second place was Tim Marshall's boo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Philosophy Discussions on the Way to NYC Shopping

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From 2002 until the pandemic, several of my kids and I would go to New York the day after Christmas to shop along Broadway. Usually we drove...