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Tag: reading
A Kiss Risks a Prince: Recent Reading
Known by Salt: Tina Mozelle BrazielA fantastic debut by an Alabama writer. I won’t say much here as I’m in the process of getting my thoughts in order for an…
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: Bad Omens in Plutarch and Shakespeare
In one of the Shakespeare courses I took, we discussed The Great Chain of Being, a hierarchical organization of all life and matter that started with God at the top…
Verbing Nicias and Other Sundry from Plutarch’s Lives
In the ancient world, being a fierce warrior wasn’t enough. Nicias was known as a strong soldier, but a careful general, which was not smiled upon at the time. In…
The Land of One-Eyed Men: More of Plutarch’s Life of Sertorius
I wrote earlier about Sertorius and his white fawn. Another aspect of Plutarch’s Sertorius that I find striking is the introduction that has correspondences to both Jung’s synchronicity and Freud’s…
Omit Heedless Words: The Elements of Style According to Emma Woodhouse
Pride and Prejudice has been a favorite novel since college. I found it a difficult, rewarding book. I found the prose difficult initially, but I kept reading because I enjoyed…
The Shilling of a Sacred Deer: Plutarch’s Sertorius and The White Fawn
I’ve mentioned my current long-term reading project is Plutarch’s Parallel Lives and how enjoyable the passages on Archimedes were. Another favorite sequence is on Quintus Sertorius. If you’ve read Shakespeare’s…
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories Treasury: Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen GammellI missed this collection of revamped urban legends and folk myths when I was a kid. I went from Godzilla in kindergarten,…
