My Year In Books (and other media)

My year of reading a book a week has officially finished.  In some ways I succeeded, albeit with some substitutions of articles, movies, documentaries and podcasts for books.  At the opening of 2024, friends published their readings, which dwarfed mine and I was...

Book Report #5

Happy New Year, friends!  I am seeing other lists of books on Facebook and in Christmas letters that my friends have read in 2023.  I am always interested in what others are reading. It gives me a wider list from which to pick what I read next.  I am still working on...

Book Report #4

This is the 4th in my series on books I have been reading in 2023.  These are books 19-24.  I want to reiterate that my reports attempt to give neutral summaries of each book, so that I discipline myself to listen to each author, rather than to criticize.  I continue...

Beauty #5

We are writing a series on Beauty.  This is the last planned post of the series.  I alluded in the last post to two problems – one being our self-perception that we are ugly in part because of the world’s fixation on a certain outward standard for women, rather...

Book Report #3

This is the 3rd in my series of posts on books I have been reading this year.  The following books, podcasts and documentaries are from weeks 13-18.  As before, I am making brief comments on each book, and have longer notes if you are interested.    I want to...