reading
I’ve been doing some great reading recently (last month or two).
Finished:
-Reading Lolita in Tehran
-Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study - talks about history of education in early american history. très academic - partially because it also looks critically at the history of the history of education in early american …
-Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy’s Guide - by Epstein. Between reading this (actually I’m only 3/4 of the way through it) and that book about Michael Servetus, I’m feeling pretty educated.
-Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man: a spiritual autobiography The oral-ness of the book was interesting. I’ve read quite a bit of woman black-american authors - especially when I was young. To find similarities here surprised me. Not necessarily a book that I would recommend.
-The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. 3/4 of the way through but I don’t think I’m going to finish this one. I like the queer take on it, but the observations would either have to be better supported or more insightful. Not enough of either.
And then the “The end of the modern age” by some guy Allen Wheelis that I just finished. It was amazing.
Just picked up (second hand store):
-In Search of the New Left
-Freddy and Fredericka - by one of my absolute favorite authors - Mark Helprin. I’m linking to someone’s blog because the I’m semi-loathe to pimp for amazon and this metacritic site that comes up doesn’t actually seem to link to any of the reviews :-p I started this one first.
-The User Illusion - Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
by Tor Norretranders. I picked it up because it seems to takes shots / questions the focus on conscious thinking compared to unconscious thinking (lots of reading on that recently as well as switching some of my focus on reading to dance/movement).
Re-reading The Gift of Therapy - An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their clients because it makes me feel all warm to hear this guy speak.