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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Friend, New List of Favorite Books

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Joseph Brodsky around 1970.  A new friend here in Panama, a cyclist, Yogi, and round-the-world-sailor named Roger, asked me for a list of bo...
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Friday, December 27, 2024

For the Sweep of History, Read New Books First

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Asked about the five books someone should read to get a broad view of the history of the world, the historian Walter Russell Mead said we sh...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Books of 2023, Part 2

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Part Two of my 2023 update begins with fiction and a book recommended by my daughter Lauren; Anxious People   by Fredrik Backman. This book ...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Book Report 2020, Book Groups In this year of Pandemic and Social Distancing

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In this year of Pandemic and Social Distancing, I am part of more book groups than ever in my life. Most of the discussions are on Zoom, bu...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Book Report, Part 3: Books on Faith

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The last post was about a book that combined worldwide nuclear war with faith among the few survivors.   It was a bridge of sorts b...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Book Report, Part 2, Nuclear War and a Monastery

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Before I turn from war to peace, I will add one more book to the war list in which the war is seen only in its effects. That book is A Can...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Book Report: The 50 Books I Read in 2016, Beginning with the War Books

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In 2016 I read 50 books, more than a dozen for the classes I took in in the spring and fall of the year, many more because of the readin...