What are you reading?

[Aggie]

Fight Club, again.

[beagle]

...Someone is breaking the first rule. And the second.

[Swatopluk]

A biography of Peter the Great

[Opsa]

I am reading a book written by my grandfather, Philip Mayer. It is called The Mature Spirit: Religion without Supernatural Hopes and I've had it since he sent it to me inscribed in 1989 (He died in the early 90's)and never got to it until now. He was a religious scholar (but I didn't know how  intense he was until now. He was just Grampa, y'know?) and it is difficult for me to get through all the scholarly stuff. He knew much more about religious writings, Dead Sea Scrolls, Ghandi and Einstein than I'll never know, but it is cool to be making this posthumous connection to him.

It's only about 150 pages max, but I'm going slow and am only halfway through. He seems to be making a point about taking more personal responsibility in developing our humanity rather than relying on supernatural forces.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A series of unfortunate events (this will take me a while...)

[Swatopluk]

Printouts from alternet and truthout

[Pachyderm]

New Scientist

[Swatopluk]

Age of the Dromon (continued)

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, 2nd edition by K. Lualdi, et al.

Reading about Napoleon III and sort of had a revelation about my own family in relation to that guy.

[beagle]

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict.

Book of the British Museum exhibition. 

Thinks are looking iffy. Trajan has kicked the bucket without officially nominating Hade as next in line for the purple.

[Swatopluk]

Schiff und Zeit (the journal of the German society for merchant and navy history)

[Pachyderm]

The Hobbit

[Griffin NoName]

Booker Shortilisted (didn't win) The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher.

Up to page 25 of 738. Big book.

So far, dull drivel. Will it improve? Or is being shortlisted corrupted? Or is it meant to test one's staying power in the face of irrefutable evidence one should abandon ship?

[Swatopluk]

the morning papers

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

This week's The Economist