So, What Are You Reading?

Read Bart D. Ehrman's Lost Christianities.

 

Read Johan Huizinga's Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century and Other Essays.

 

Two more nice ones from the Thrift Store:

Country Home Decorating Book Miranda Innes
500 Essential Container Plants: Window Boxes, Balconies and Patios Andrea Rausch (Editor), Annette Timmermann (Photographer)

No more till after Christmas, I think.

J.

 

Read John T. Richards' Abraham Lincoln the Lawyer-Statesman.

 

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander. Written in 1978 but is still incredibly relevant today, particularly in the context of the Internet.

 

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The Top 10 Books Of 2016, According To Everyone - Digg

 

Read Andrew Bridgeford's 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry.

 

I have a couple of books on the Bayeux Tapestry, including one with photographs of all panels - the complete work. I've been a fan for many, many years.

The reasons I like it include its historical significance and its beauty. Another reason is that as a boy, pictures of the Bayeux Tapestry really sparked my lasting interest in Latin. The captions are brief and written in very simple language, that was easy for a kid of 13 with about a year of Latin study to read. And there is a little bit of half-hidden salacious stuff, for a teenage boy to snicker over. :smile:

J.

 

I lied. Again. And I'm not even sorry. :smile:

Three nice ones today.

La Chanson de Roland. Medieval French epic, written between 1040 and 1115 CE, scholars say. Story set in Charlemagne's time (8th Century) and deals with a struggle between the Saracen and Christian worlds.
Side-by-side versions - Old French and modern English. Not that hard to decode the original, if you know Modern French and some Latin. Takes a bit of getting used to, but that adds to the work's charm.

Decorating Candles Terry Taylor
Mary Emmerling's American Country South Text - Carol Sama Sheehan. Photos - Langdon Clay. Lovely book on country furniture and décor below the Mason-Dixon line.

J.

 

Read Alfred F. Young's The American Revolution.

 

I've started re-reading "Democracy in America". Alexis de Tocqueville's observations still have the capacity to amaze.

 

I found online "Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum"! it is going to take some time...

Start here at Google Books.

 

Gender development by Judith Blakemore.

 

Shoe Dog Phil Knight

 

Read John Gunther's Roosevelt in Retrospect.

 

Started Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt. A fascinating and sobering read.

 

Christmas Books To Be Read:

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
A. J. Langguth, After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
Bill O'Reilly, Killing Lincoln
Gaillard R. Peck, Jr., America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project Constant Peg

 

Read A. J. Langguth's After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace.

 

Read Gaillard R. Peck, Jr.'s America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project Constant Peg.