Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
āZum ewigen Frieden/ To ever lasting peaceā - Immanuel Kant
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The Party of Introverts by Susan Cain. Picked it up because iām interested in understanding introversion & extroversion, especially since iām an introvert and this is an extrovert driven world. I would recommend it to anyone because it teaches you that introversion does not make you weird
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Interesting
Hooking Up Tom Wolfe
Iām working my way through Thomas Pynchonās V. Heās an author I want to say I understand, but I donāt think I actually understand.
One of the most difficult authors I have attempted to date (and I like Faulkner).
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If you want your reading to feel like an accomplishment and not a pastime, I recommend Alan Mooreās Jerusalem. It is basically 1300 very densely written pages about Northampton (well, part of it) through the spacetime continuum.
The reading is extremely hard going and leaves one with an impression of having done something unpleasant and painful yet strangely impressive, like climbing a mountain or finishing one of those mud obstacle races.
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If you want a manageable book by Pynchon try Inherent Vice. Itās a stoner version of a hardboiled detective novelā¦but wayyyyy more confusing. JK, itās an awesome book. Also it was turned into a movie by PTA, so if youāre still confused (as I was) after finishing it you can watch the movie.
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Sounds very interesting, thank you for the recommendation from a fellow introvert.
Directorate S by Steve Coll.
This book felt a bit rushed compared to Ghost Wars, although it might just feel that way because I was alive for the war in Afghanistan. At one point Steve mentioned how if the US left the Taliban would immediately take over, his knickname should either be āClairvoyant Collā or āCommon sense Collā.
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Who gets what and why Alvin Roth
The ERC winter break book.
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom
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Just finished Through Clouds and Sunshine by Joy Martin. She was my maternal grandmother who died before I was born. Not the sort of book id normally read as itās heavily religious given she was a deaconess in the Church of England but was interesting to read about her life.
Also just finished Matterhorn which was immense, probably by favourite war novel.
Just starting on a shining bright lie
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Just finished Battle Scars A Story of War And All That Follows by Jason Fox.
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Worth a read? He seems like a stand up guy.
I had a go at that about a month ago - got two chapters in and threw it out. It felt like he was just repeating the one idea again and again on every page.
The only war book Iāve ever really related to was Dispatches by Michael Herr.
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āHow to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelicsā by Michael Pollan
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Itās not as good as I hoped it would be, Iāve not read Dispatches, may have to look in to that.
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Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose is the best war book Iāve read. Heās a preeminent World War 2 chronicler and the author of Band of Brothers. Citizen Soldiers recounts numerous individualsā experiences as wells as different demographics of people. I forget the exact order to the book, but it flows well and mixes individual accounts with historical and contextual information.
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