CURRENTLY READING

Thought I would add a list of what I am currently reading.  I usually read several books at the same time.  Some I finish, some I abandon, some I linger over for months.

As of May 6, 2020, this is what I’ve currently got going:

1. Africa: A Biography of the Continent — John Reader
2. Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War — Karen Abbott
3. Giza and the Pyramids — Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
4. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
5. The Iliad — by Homer, trans. by A.T. Murray

Begun in earnest but (temporarily?) set aside:

1. Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, 3rd Edition — David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel
2. Big History: Between Nothing and Everything — David Christian, et al
3. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan
4. How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of the Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind — Charles Langmuir & Wally Broecker
5. Madison and Jefferson — Andrew Burstein & Nancy Isenberg
6. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece — Josiah Ober
7. Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies — Zahi Hawass and Sahar N. Saleem
8. What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton
9. 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR — David D. Pietrusza
10. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth — J.P. Mallory
11. Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
12. Stanton — Walter Stahr
13. When Montezuma Met Cortes — Matthew Restall
14. The Odyssey — Homer, trans. by Lattimore
15. Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America — Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick
16. In the Shadow of the Sword — Tom Holland
17. Osman’s Dream – Caroline Finkel
18. American Nations — Colin Woodward
19. Walls — David Frye
20. The Home Voices Speak Louder Than Drums — Wanda Easter Burch
21. Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 — Ernest B. Ferguson
22. Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South 1865-1914 — William Blair

I may have overlooked something …

I am flattered that I have received emails with comments from many of the authors that I have reviewed, and the bulk of these have not only been quite favorable but have thereby served to establish valuable new relationships.

I find reading quite rewarding, especially when challenging myself to read at or above my limits to expand my horizons, reveal new perspectives, and compel me to use the muscles of my intellect the way an athlete might use the muscles of his body.  I only wish more people felt the same way!