Tag Archives: week in review

Books this Update: The Associate, John Grisham A People’s History of American Empire, Howard Zinn Abounding Grace, M. Scott Peck The House of the Vestals, Steven Saylor Our Inner Ape, Frans De Waal The Sane Society, Erich Fromm The Reason … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Persian Fire, Tom Holland Shattered Mirror, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade, Brian Fagan The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu, Henry Wei The Moscow Option, David Downing Although I read most of Persian Fire last … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh Arms of Nemesis, Steven Saylor The Universe in a Single Atom, Tenzin Gyatso This week’s reading started off on a high note, with Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day, … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Through a Window, Jane Goodall The Book that Changed My Life, ed. Roxanne J. Coady The Great Warming, Brian Fagan The Ghost, Robert Harris The Words of Martin Luther King, ed. Coretta Scott King Four out of … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Roman Blood, Steven Saylor Rubicon: the Last Years of the Roman Republic, Tom Holland Transforming the Mind, Tenzin Gyatso I began the week with the strangely-titled Freakonomics, work done by Steven … Continue reading →

Books this Update: The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell An Open Heart, Tenzin Gyatso Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis The Naked Sun, Isaac Asimov Real-Life X-Files, Joe Nickell Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History, Patrick Hunt … Continue reading →

Books this Update Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, Nancy Sinatra The Sun Shines Bright, Isaac Asimov The Art of Happiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Enigma, Robert Harris I to Myself, Henry David Thoreau Friday the 13th began spring break at … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Lost on Planet China, J. Maarten Troost The Compleat Gentleman, Brad Miner Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill Evolution for Everyone, David Sloan Wilson Pompeii, Robert Harris I began this week with a travelogue by J. … Continue reading →

Books this Update: What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You, Oliver Thomas Imperium, Robert Harris The Roman Mind, M.L. Clarke This week’s reading was an interesting … Continue reading →

Books this Update: Mythology, Edith Hamilton The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Peter Quammen Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill I began this week with Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, which is concerned chiefly with the Greco-Roman legends. Hamilton is an author I have … Continue reading →