First up, a little Tuesday teasin’, from Sarah Ruden’s Paul Among the People. This interesting little read compares Paul’s understanding of humanity to that of the first-century Roman world.

Juvenal displays [women] as cheerfully, irredeemably evil. I am a woman, so I shouldn’t find any of this funny, but his women are funny, like a James Bond villain with a Persian cat and a shark tank, or like Inspector Dreyfus in the last Pink Panther movie, wanting to take a quick bathroom break before vaporizing the world.

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is….Spring TBRs!     Spring is typically my weakest season for reading, in large part because I’m distracted by all the pretty outside. Let’s see if I can’t entice myself into reading more with some promising reads, shall we?

March
Waters of the World, Sarah Dry.  (Science Survey)
Purgatorio, Dante. Trans. Anthony Esolen (Classics Club, Mount Doom, Lent)
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, Robin Dunbar (Science Survey)

April
The Victorians, A.N. Wilson (Mount Doom, Read of England)
British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution,  Don Hagist (Mount Doom, Read of England)
Paradiso, Dante. Trans. Anthony Esolen. (Classics Club, Mount Doom, Easter)
Rebecca, Daphne de Maurier  (Classics Club, Read of England)
Tuck, Stephen R. Lawhead (Mount TBR, Read of England)

May
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Lee Siegel.
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans,  Mark Bauerlein (Mount Doom)