Books I read in February 2024
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amado1Total: 20 books
— The Odyssey by T.E. Lawrence;
— Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo;
— Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay;
— Lighter than My Shadow by Katie Green;
— The Inferno by Dante Alighieri;
— Fame by Andy Warhol;
— If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson;
— Three Character Classic;
— Metamorphoses by Ovid;
— The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope;
— Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins;
— The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa;
— This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadusz Borowski;
— Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake;
— Bisclavret by Marie de France;
— Six Lais d'Amour by Marie de France;
— Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre;
— On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy by Elizabeth Bruenig;
— The Analects by Confucius;
— Daodejing by Lao Tzu.
Books I read significant chunks of:
— Private Shaw and Public Shaw by Stanley Weintraub;
— David Bowie: The Oral History by Dylan Jones;
— Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolas.
And I don't normally count fanfics on here but I want to give a shout out to Forward but Never Forget/XOXO by Lullabyes, the Silco-centric Arcane fic I've been reading...it's almost 300K now, and it's higher quality than most novels I've read lately 💀
Of the books I read, my favorites were Bisclavret, Metamorphoses, and Warhol's Fame. Also worth noting is "On Human Slaughter," a very slim book collecting Elizabeth Bruenig's articles on the death penalty for The Atlantic. The only book I didn't particularly like is the Bhagavad-Gita, which I expected to LOVE... I think it reminded me too much of the religious schooling I got as a kid
— The Odyssey by T.E. Lawrence;
— Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo;
— Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay;
— Lighter than My Shadow by Katie Green;
— The Inferno by Dante Alighieri;
— Fame by Andy Warhol;
— If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson;
— Three Character Classic;
— Metamorphoses by Ovid;
— The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope;
— Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins;
— The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa;
— This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadusz Borowski;
— Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake;
— Bisclavret by Marie de France;
— Six Lais d'Amour by Marie de France;
— Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre;
— On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy by Elizabeth Bruenig;
— The Analects by Confucius;
— Daodejing by Lao Tzu.
Books I read significant chunks of:
— Private Shaw and Public Shaw by Stanley Weintraub;
— David Bowie: The Oral History by Dylan Jones;
— Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolas.
And I don't normally count fanfics on here but I want to give a shout out to Forward but Never Forget/XOXO by Lullabyes, the Silco-centric Arcane fic I've been reading...it's almost 300K now, and it's higher quality than most novels I've read lately 💀
Of the books I read, my favorites were Bisclavret, Metamorphoses, and Warhol's Fame. Also worth noting is "On Human Slaughter," a very slim book collecting Elizabeth Bruenig's articles on the death penalty for The Atlantic. The only book I didn't particularly like is the Bhagavad-Gita, which I expected to LOVE... I think it reminded me too much of the religious schooling I got as a kid
