Reading
Finished reading: The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han.
Provocative in the first half; unsatisfying in the second. Han is laser-focused on the core problems of modernity but his books are so short they feel, at times, perfunctory. 📚
Currently reading: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II by Marcel Proust 📚
Currently reading: Frost: Poems by Robert Frost 📚
Currently reading: The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 📚
Finished reading: The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell 📚
I recently finished Katherine Rundell’s wonderful new volume in her Impossible Creatures series and had to write a few words about it. In short, I doubt there’s a better week for it to have been released. If you could use some hope, this is one place to find it. 📚
Cannot wait to dive into this one! I had to fend off two small but voracious children to preserve my claim. Fortunately I was up to the task. 💪📚
Currently reading: The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell 📚
Currently reading: All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart 📚
Finished reading: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi.
Some books feel like they’re written just for you. This one has some sections that I really needed to think through while reflecting on my life, the assumptions I tend to make about myself, & the way the world works in general.
Plus, I enjoyed learning about Alfred Adler, who was part of the same Vienna circle as Freud and his disciple Jung—but who reached very different conclusions about the human person & the role of psychology. 📚
Currently reading: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi 📚
Finished reading: The Son by Philipp Meyer.
This book is incredible—I see why some think it’s the novel of the century so far. It follows one remarkable Texas family for 150 years, telling the family’s story through the interwoven lives of, primarily, three of its members. 📚
Finished reading: Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner 📚
Currently reading: Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner 📚
Finished reading: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis. Read this one, & Out of the Silent Planet, with my daughter. We’ve both loved both books, so it’s on to That Hideous Strength! 📚
Currently reading: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚
Currently reading: The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature & Ideas by Geoffrey Hill 📚