Which book are you reading now? Volume XI

[Hyperborean]

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. I've been reading it since last summer. I only have sixty pages left (out of 1433). It has taken me a while to get here. I suffer from a Shakespearean overdose. Reading play after play after play is a bit overwhelming. So there were periods when I had to put the book down, and read other books instead. The Sonnets are the only thing remaining now.

Words, so many words!

 

[Arakhor]

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Finished A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson, the 2014 revised edition so Mandela's death is at the very end of the book. Lots of interesting things. Finally understood the patchwork nature of South Africa's provinces and the exclaves in there. Apartheid is possibly one of the most depressing things enabled by the post-war economic boom. Israel's relationship with it certainly is interesting. There wasn't much support for arming the CSA with modern weapons, so that initiative never got off the ground. It is intriguing that clean water is a right guaranteed under the post-apartheid constitution of the country. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission allowed perpetrators to evade justice. Mbeki and Zuma are really disappointing successors to Mandela.

Time for some economics: The Foundations of Institutional Economics by K. William Kapp.

 

[JohannaK]

I don't know if I already said it, but I read Twenty-Four Hours In The Life Of A Woman by Stefan Zweig some time ago. It's awesome.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Finished Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592-1598 by Stephen Turnbull. Not very academic, as I was hoping, but it covered the material ok. I wish there were more books on the conflict, and readily available as well. I don't even think my university library has the one other book about the war I was able to dig up, The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China.

 

[Borachio]

Tripura Rahaysa

Honestly, I'm very confused.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Ham Radio for Dummies. There ought to be a book called Yachting for Dummies, it would have a wide read-base.

 

[dusters]

"Victor Hugo - the man who laughs". I like the wolf and human duo. Seems a bit more natural compared to man/ dog or man/cat duos.

 

[Oruc]

I read the short story "Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima last night. it was quite unsettling.

 

[ShahJahanII]

I'm halfway through A Clash of Kings and I'm loving A Song of Ice and Fire so far.

 

[Arakhor]

I bought Judith Herrin's Byzantium whilst on holiday in Devon and read Wolf Brother, the first book in Michelle Pavor's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, set in what appears to be Mesolithic Scandinavia.

 

[Mouthwash]

 

[JohannaK]

Fool as I am, in the midst of reading Thus Spake Zarathustra, having begun Crime and Punishment and having another couple of half-read books lying somewhere, I just begun ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano. I liked Gomorra, so I thought I'd listen to what he has to say about the cocaine business. Quite an interesting read so far.

 

[Cutlass]

Recently read The Magicians and The Magician King by Lev Grossman. Skin Game by Jim Butcher. And Blood Red by Mercedes Lackey.

 

[Kozmos]

Lies of Locke Lamora. So far pretty interesting and different from standard fantasy. Probably not unique but it's novel to me. Also planned to read the Conan novels because I promised myself but I hesitate because it's on my tablet and not Kindle.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Marianne Kamp - The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
Shoshana Keller - To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign against Islam in Central Asia, 1917-1941

Two different perspectives on the time period and issue. One celebrates the escape of women from traditional Muslim society, the other mourns the suppression of that society by teh kommiez. But both are good books.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, Michael Shuman.

It's more like How Local Businesses COULD Beat the Global Competition If Big Business Wasn't So Subsidized -- Here's Some Ideas for Buying Local. I'm only halfway through, and so far it's a plucky but odd book. The first chapter was on economics, and now it's more on civic activism.

 

[Antilogic]

I haven't had too much reading time in the past few months, but I'll be starting up again in a week or so. Probably will return to Freedom from Fear and Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party first, both have been unfinished for awhile.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, Michael Shuman.

Why do I feel like that book won't tell me anything new? There's have always been things smaller businesses are more adept at than larger ones.

Anyway, Understanding Military Doctrine by Harold Høiback. I think I already like the guy:

One can, of course, ask whether there are other kinds of authority than those resting on superior knowledge and the power-of-the-best argument. Obviously, however, there are, as all kids arguing with their parents know.

 

[Masada]

Principles of Biostatistics - Pagano & Gauvreau: Stuff I already know how to do but have never learned about all that systematically.
The Methods and Materials of Demography, Second Edition - Swanson & Siegel: Same as the above.