20 August 2024
29 July 2024
02 July 2024
reading list update, jan -- jun
***Dennis C.
Rasmussen, Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders
(2021)
**Roger
Crowley, Spice: The 16th Century Contest that Shaped the Modern
World (2024)
Ramin Setoodeh,
Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America
Through the Looking Glass (2024)
*Robert D.
Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (2005)
***Dennis
Romano, Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City (2024)
Derek Wilson, Charlemagne
(2006) [poorly written]
Michelle P
Brown, Bede and the Theory of Everything (2023)
***Irene
Vallejo, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (2022)
Hamish Coghill,
Lost Edinburgh (2008)
*Michael Fry, Wild
Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History
(2005)
**Michael Fry, Edinburgh:
A History of the City (2009)
Ian Mortimer, Medieval
Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (2024)
Paul
Stephenson, New Rome: The Empire in the East (2021)
Ernle Bradford,
The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople (2014)--reread
Robin
Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (2023)
James R.
Gaines, Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in
the Age of Enlightenment (2005)
Karen
Armstrong, The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts (2019)
Rowland J.
Mainstone, Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s
Great Church (1988)
*Charles
Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
*Jürgen Osterhammel, Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s
Encounter With Asia (2018)
Victorino
Matus, Vodka: How a Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless Spirit Conquered America
(2014)
***Hershel
Shanks, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: From Solomon to the Golden Dome (2007)
**Olivia
Williams, Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London (2014)
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28 May 2024
coochee
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16 March 2024
wordses
great opening lines:
· In the beginning, and what not.
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03 March 2024
07 January 2024
twelfth day of xmas
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31 December 2023
read, read, read
another year of indiscriminate reading, not quite as prolific as in some years past, mainly because of the time spent working on the woodruff chronicle ---
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years” War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistence, 1917-2017 (2020)
Liz Cheney, Oath
and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (2023)
***Peter
Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story (2023)
Jonathan
Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (2023)
**Joshua
Hammer, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, and their race to save the
world’s most-precious manuscripts (2016)
**Richard
Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of
Knowledge (2020)
*Ben Wilson, Metropolis:
A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention (2020)
Adam
Rutherford, How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and don’t) Say
About Human Differences (2020)
**Barbara F.
Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (2022)
***Jeff
Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War (2023)
**Hugh Howard, Architects
of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and
the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces (2022)
**James
Crawford, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World (2022)
Kevin Kruse and
Julian Zelizer, Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and
Lies About our Past (2022)
*Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra,
A Life (2010)
**Christopher
Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English
Revolution (1972)
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14 December 2023
happy holidays
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13 December 2023
passages redux and done
as of today, i have a living will, a dead will, and beneficiaries installed for this and that, but have not yet arranged for disposition of my "remains," as it were, nor for any death mask or monumental sculpture ---
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29 November 2023
passages
today marks the eleventh anniversay of iris's death, in her own bed in the wee hours of the morning --- and tomorrow is dead john's birthday --- so here we are
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14 November 2023
it's been a minute
UGA press's publication next fall of the coochee history remains on track, and i have wound up the columbus woodruffs' family history project to their satisfaction, and mine --- i might rework it into something publishable, should i get in the mood to do that, but for now it's their's with a fork in it ---
meantime, i continue to watch the toulouse requiem, as i call it, most evenings
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28 August 2023
animals
from sinclair with kitty bob
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06 August 2023
dog days of summer
Dog days bright and clear / Indicate a good year; / But when accompanied by rain, / We hope for better times in vain
coochee is resting or gestating or whatever, quietly --- but i'm deep in the weeds with the woodruff project
the juggler continues to keep me up late, almost every night, and almost always keeping it festive --- which i like lots better than bailing you-know-who out of foreclosure, for the umpteenth time --- some things fester to a head, and i think my relationship with him is near that point
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