Finished reading: In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch 📚

Languid, lyrical, intoxicating. In youth, pleasure.

#book #queer

Seems vaguely relevant.

#book #fallofcivilisation

Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Chapter / Day 13 - “Three Hours” - On finding focus in the chaos.

Basically, many of the most productive people in the world focused their attention and energy on a three hour (ish) period of the day …

Love this :)

Book of the Day - “The Future is History” (Masha Gessen, 2017)

Subtitled “How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”. A warning we need to heed.

#books #history #booksky #totalitarianism

Currently reading: The Future is History by Masha Gessen 📚

Prescient book from 2017 - a lot of the reviews at the time criticised Gessen for calling Putin’s regime “totalitarian”.

Finished reading: Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews 📚

Dark, queer, twisted.

Finished reading: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 📚

Darkly funny and sardonic. Listless tale of avoidance. Not sure about the end, but many memorable vignettes.

Finished reading: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚

Wonderful multi layered noir philosophic novel.

Long weekend reading collection. Connected and contrasting themes - history, philosophy, cross-cultural exchange, reflection, and ancient thought.

Cancelled

Finished reading: Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson 📚

Finished reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 📚

The first book on the “Culture” Series, now a classic science fiction setting. Explores the Culture largely from the view on an antagonist in the midst of a devastating galactic war. Covers vast and immense scope with finely crafted characters and intense interpersonal relationships and conflict.

Brilliant.

Finished reading: Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker 📚

Interesting mix of natural history, history and mythological investigation.

Finished reading: On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock 📚

Finished reading: Blackouts by Justin Torres 📚

Finished reading: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend 📚

Finished reading: Bernardino de Sahagun by Miguel Leon-Portilla 📚

Finished reading: Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox 📚

Finished reading: The Florentine Codex by Jeanette Favrot Peterson 📚

Finished reading: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚

Finished reading: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn 📚

Finished reading: Ancient Cuzco by Brian S. Bauer 📚

Excellent preparation for our trip to Peru in July 2024.

Finished reading: Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright 📚

Fascinating analysis of the underpinnings of the development of the Hebrew Bible.