Tag Archives: week in review

Pending Reviews: How the Mind Works, Stephen Pinker; The Misunderstood Jew: the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine.Currently Reading: The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene; At Home, Bill BrysonPotentials: The Oceans, Ellen PragerNew Releases: Bernard … Continue reading →

Currently Reading: How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker; The Positronic Man, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg; The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene (on hold until I finish How the Mind Works). =============T=H=E===W=E=E=K===I=N===Q=U=O=T=E=S=========== “It’s ridiculous, sir! Getting married.”“Women like it, … Continue reading →

Pending Review(s): Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam.Currently Reading: The Son of Neptune; Rick Riordian; The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene (on hold until next week)Potentials: How the Mind Works, Stephen Pinker This blog started … Continue reading →

This being the Christmas season, I’m currently in the middle of a Harry Potter re-read. This is not a tradition, though it may become one: in 2007 I re-read the entire series during Christmas break after I’d returned home from … Continue reading →

After reading several tomes in Will Durant’s Story of Civilization series, I’m rather…full of epic history at the moment, particularly religious history, so I returned Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years for some lighter fare. I have three recent reviews waiting to … Continue reading →

This past week has mostly been about The Reformation, which I am 2/3rds of the way through. It started out strong (The Age of Faith, part 2), but boy — hundreds of pages about fanatics screaming at and killing each … Continue reading →

This week at the library… I’ll be finishing a biography of Marcus Aurelius, as well as the Discourses and Handbook of Epictetus. As it turns out, reading them together gives me a complementary experience, as Epictetus’s philosophy inspired Marcus’ own, … Continue reading →

This week at the library I’ve put entirely too much on my plate. For starters, I’m knee deep in Will Durant’s The Renaissance, which is surprisingly..not all that interesting. So far it’s been three hundred pages of petty Italian city-state politics … Continue reading →

Yesterday I finally — and grudgingly — accepted the suggestion that I visit the doctor’s office, where I was given pills. The prescription appears to be working, and so today I managed to go into town and pay a visit to the … Continue reading →