● Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky; 1866
(Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
With the extended Hemingway group.
● Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes; 1605/1615
(Translated by Edith Grossman)
With the Catherine Project .
● Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village
Mary Chamberlain; 1975
In anticipation of seeing Fen at the Court Theatre .
● Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
C.L.R. James; 1953
For a Night School Bar course.
● Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville; 1851
For University of Chicago Graham School and Night School Bar courses.
● The Odyssey
Homer (Translated by Emily Wilson)
For a Brooklyn Institute for Social Research course.
● SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard; 2015
For Latin I tutorial .
The list of books I’ve read this year can be found here ; and the archive of books I’ve read each year since 2008 can be accessed from the “Reading” pulldown menu above.
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How do you go about choosing the books you read? You’ve probably been asked this question many times.
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Whim. Abiding interests. Book group selections. Recommendations. Reviews. Tie-ins to recent adventures (e.g., theater, museums, etc.). Did I mention whim? Joseph asked a similar question about books I acquire. I tried to respond here: https://nerdishly.com/2021/05/26/recent-acquisitions-20/
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