CURRENTLY READING
Thought I would include 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 June 18, 2021, this is what I’ve currently got going:
- George Washington — David O. Stewart
- The Fighting McCooks — Charles and Barbara Whalen
- Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
- Swann’s Way — Marcel Proust
- The Iliad — by Homer, trans. by A.T. Murray
Begun in earnest but (temporarily?) set aside:
- Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, 3rd Edition — David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel
- Big History: Between Nothing and Everything — David Christian, et al
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan
- How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of the Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind — Charles Langmuir & Wally Broecker
- Madison and Jefferson — Andrew Burstein & Nancy Isenberg
- The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece — Josiah Ober
- Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies — Zahi Hawass and Sahar N. Saleem
- What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR — David D. Pietrusza
- In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth — J.P. Mallory
- Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
- Stanton — Walter Stahr
- When Montezuma Met Cortes — Matthew Restall
- The Odyssey — Homer, trans. by Lattimore
- Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America — Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick
- In the Shadow of the Sword — Tom Holland
- Osman’s Dream – Caroline Finkel
- American Nations — Colin Woodward
- Walls — David Frye
- The Home Voices Speak Louder Than Drums — Wanda Easter Burch
- Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 — Ernest B. Ferguson
- Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South 1865-1914 — William Blair
- Giza and the Pyramids — Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
- Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War — Steve Inskeep
- Europe Before Rome — T. Douglas Price
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!
