Saturday, March 11, 2023

***** Books I Think I'm Going to Read Soon

Forty Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhode

The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought edited by Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs

Nature's Hidden Dimension: Envisioining the Inner Life of the Universe by W. H. S. Gebel

Seven Types of Ambiguity by Wlliam Empson

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  Read It

The Color of Christ by Edward J. Blumm Email: eblum@sdsu.edu 

Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture by Eric Greene

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King

The Fire and the Cloud: An Anthology of Catholic Spirituality

The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton edited by Barry Malzberg

That Uncertain Feeling by Kinsley Amis (which features that great line about liking breasts)

The Confessions of St. Augustine (see https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/01/25/what-translation-of-augustines-confessions-should-i-read/)

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Dominion, The Making of the Western Mind Tom Holland

Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From Theocratic Absolutism to Liberal Democracy, in Four Centuries of Music Drama by Simon Banks--already reading this: on page 273.

The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach--translated by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), FF'sS!

Alessandro Scarlatti: An Introduction to His Operas
by Donald Jay Grout  Read It

Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works by Edward Joseph Dent

Philosophers on Shakespeare by Paul A. Kottman (not available at the library)

Sights and insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way
by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney...a copy of which I found at Half-Price Books which was published in 1876!

Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret




Also,

I'm on page 199 of 353 in The Diary of A Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (but unfortunately I do not like Shaun very much, so I don't know if I'll ever get back to this one).

And I'm on page something or other in The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife by Brad Balukjian.




Speaking of books...this: 

https://www.dramandaforeman.com/stay-silent-and-soon-amazon-will-be-telling-the-world-what-it-can-read-the-sunday-times/?cn-reloaded=1

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