Since John is doing it, I suppose I should as well. I apologize for not posting here more. It is merely a function of a lack of time. I’ve bolded those I’ve read and italicized those I’ve partially read.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
Life of Pi
The Name [...]
My new favorite response to a bad argument, courtesy of David Foster Wallace:
“This is so stupid it practically drools.”
(Pg. 89 of “Authority and American Usage,” in Consider the Lobster)
…when you combine Barnes and Noble’s 40% employee appreciation discount and $135.00 worth of gift cards?
You get a book buying spree of epic proportions:
Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky
Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Michael Sherwan
The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk
Hilbert, by Constance Reid
No Country for Old [...]
Although I am painfully late about this, I still would like to pay my respects to a truly great writer. Galapagos, Slaughter-House 5, and Cat’s Cradle are all on my top 20 favorite book list of all time. He was a brilliant man who will be sorely missed.
This break I have stuck to my tradition of buying too many books that I do not have time to read. They are all now on my ‘to be read’ book shelf. Here is the list:
The Man Who Knew Infiniy by Robert Kanigel
Of Men and Numbers by Jane Muir
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol [...]
‘Tis the season for top five lists; so, here are some of mine.
Top Five Philosophy Books Read in 2006:
5. Welfare and Rational Care, Steven Darwall
4. The Limits of Morality, Shelly Kagan
3. A Theory of Justice, John Rawls
T-1. What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon
T-1. Knowledge and its Limits, Timothy Williamson
Top Five Novels Read in [...]
