Tag: books
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The Books I Read in 2012
Attention conservation notice: this post is long and has nothing to do with working out. I have kept a list of every book I have read I have read since I was thirteen years old. Yeah, obsessive record keeping didn’t start with my running log. Below is a list of every book I read this…
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Review: Goodrich-Clarke’s Black Sun
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke An overview of Nazi inspired right wing lunatics of the post World War II era, covering the heavy hitters and some lesser known individuals. It is a very well researched account of world for which it is difficult to get information, but…
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Review: Drazin’s Maimonides
Maimonides: Reason Above All Israel Drazin This is an odd little volume on the great Jewish thinker, the Rambam. Perhaps its worth a read for someone like me — a novice Jewish scholar. There is a lot of good introductory material here, but the book is kind of all over the place. Chapters focus on…
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Review: McAuley’s Quiet War
The Quiet War, Paul McAuley Fans of science fiction often try to place works in the genre into one or more subcategories. It is “space opera” or it is “cyberpunk”; it is “steam punk” or it is “military SF”. It is “Hard SF” or “New Wave”. These distinctions can be helpful to the reader picking…
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Acqusitions Week of 2.20.2011
Death in a City of Mystics (Prime Crime Mysteries), Janice Steinberg, Berkley (1998) – Found on the street. Seriously. Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press (2009) – Amazon. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, NYU (2003) – Amazon…
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One Less Question on the Voynich Manuscripts
There was big news this week in the land of Voynich Manuscript hobbyist. The book is apparently quite old. A book of illustrations and writings composed in a language no one can understand, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) has had a cult following in certain obscure corners of the bibliophilic world for sometime. This week, researchers…
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Once a Runner
The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials? – Once a Runner I started reading John Parker’s Once a Runner this week, and I can’t understand…
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Conversion Reading List
Just a quick post today to note what the reading will be for the conversion I am taking and some thoughts on study: The text book is Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice The bible we’ll be using is the JPS Tanakh Other recommended reading is: Jewish Literacy Jewish Holidays…
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Study
Just a quick post today to note what the reading will be for the conversion I am taking and some thoughts on study: The text book is Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition and Practice The bible we’ll be using is the JPS Tanakh Other recommended reading is: Jewish Literacy Jewish Holidays…
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Review: Pelecanos’s Hell to Pay
Hell to Pay: A Derek Strange Novel (Derek Strange Novels) George Pelecanos The second book in Pelecanos’s series about P.I. Derek Strange and his sidekick Terry Quinn. Probably even better than the first, this one has less silly shoot ‘em up scenes and more of the grime that is crime in South East D.C. as…
Milo and the Calf 