Monday, January 2, 2017

The Martian (Andy Weir, 2011)

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Not to dogpile on the whole "2016 was the worst year ever", but 2016 was, in fact, the worst year ever (since I started keeping tr...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)

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Once again, in the glow of completing another "classic", I must reflect back on my high school English curriculum. I went to a sup...
Friday, December 16, 2016

The Shining (Stephen King, 1977)

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Partly because of marathon training and partly because I've been enrolled in another course this semester, the free reading (and by asso...
Friday, November 18, 2016

What Is Ancient Philosophy? (Pierre Hadot, 1995)

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Pierre Hadot's thesis is fairly simple. Ancient philosophy was not just a discourse, but a way of life. While the discourse aspect has s...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Driven to Distraction at Work (Edward M. Hallowell, 2014)

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Maybe this is some kind of Harvard Business Review thing, but the e-book was published a couple months before the print version, so even tho...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Restoration of Rome (Peter Heather, 2013)

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I had no idea what a cut-up Peter Heather could be. The last time I read a book with such a wry tone, it was James O'Donnell's Ruin ...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Pope Francis: Life and Revolution (Elisabetta Piqué, 2014)

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We're about three and a half years into the Pope Francis era and there is no shortage of literature on His Holiness. I recall back in Ma...