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 August 18, 2020, this is what I’ve currently got going:

1. The Awakening — Charles Freeman
2. Reaganland — Rick Perlstein
3. A History of Crete — Chris Moorey
4. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire — Thomas T. Allsen
5. Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth — David Whitehouse
6. Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War — Steve Inskeep
7. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
8. 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
23. Giza and the Pyramids — Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass

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!