The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I haven't read this book in over a decade and forgot how much I like it. I'll probably need to re read Foucault's Pendulum when I finish this book.
Nice! I've listened to them all as well. Let us know how the book is.Having listened to every available podcast episode it seemed only natural to buy the book. Starting it today.
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. I haven't read this book in over a decade and forgot how much I like it. I'll probably need to re read Foucault's Pendulum when I finish this book.
Thanks for the post! I got the first book on the Kindle and I am enjoying the book.Faith Martin murder mystery. I’m on book six of the series. It’s Brit-based, and I get a kick out of some of the slang used.
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Having listened to every available podcast episode it seemed only natural to buy the book. Starting it today.
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Having finished Mary Beard's SPQR I'm returning to re-read Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I've read much of it before, but not from cover to cover- more a chapter here on a topic, a couple chapters there on another topic. I've also downloaded Gibbons' Autobiographies from the Internet Archive, though I don't know if I'll actually read them. I'm interested in his conversions in and out of deism, Catholicism, and several different forms of Protestantism, most of which occurred when he was a young man.
Still working on Fitzpatrick's The Boys of St Columb's. I'd like to finish it this afternoon. A remarkable story of a single generation of young men who attended the same school and had incredibly rich and productive lives of real influence on the world.
Great book. I tore it up in one sitting.Finished Robert Iger’s Ride of a Lifetime. On to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. View attachment 1195284
Done with this one. I found it just as entertaining as their podcast, probably even more so. I also found the footnotes a bit annoying, just like their off topic banter on the podcast. But not enough to not read (or listen).
Moving on the Freakonomics. I bought the paperback, but really wanted the hardcover. Last night I found the hardcover and bought that too. Then I thought “I wonder if I have the ebook?”. Sure enough, I already have the ebook. So I have 3 copies....
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Having finished Mary Beard's SPQR I'm returning to re-read Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I've read much of it before, but not from cover to cover- more a chapter here on a topic, a couple chapters there on another topic. I've also downloaded Gibbons' Autobiographies from the Internet Archive, though I don't know if I'll actually read them. I'm interested in his conversions in and out of deism, Catholicism, and several different forms of Protestantism, most of which occurred when he was a young man.
Still working on Fitzpatrick's The Boys of St Columb's. I'd like to finish it this afternoon. A remarkable story of a single generation of young men who attended the same school and had incredibly rich and productive lives of real influence on the world.
Octavian FTW.
After finishing SPQR, I moved on to Asimov’s ‘Foundation,’ which I loved. Moving on to ‘Murder by Other Means’ by John Scalzi on audio. I have also started The Overstory by Richard Powers in hard copy.