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Improper Order by Deirdre Sullivan

Kingfish: the reign of Huey P. Long by Richard D. White.

The Island Of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells.

I am reading The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson, which is really good but a bad book to pick up right before finals as it is over 1000 pages long!

Interrupted one to read in another of two books bought Wednesday, one new, one used.
The 2013 edition of Atlantis and the Silver City, author Peter Daughtrey.
A 1950 edition of Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl.

Finished these two this week:



Now onwards to these:



I previously posted about other classical works of Hinduism and Buddhism I've read here:
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 6#p7023636

... but both religions are so complex that I need to dig deeper to get a proper understanding of them...

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
by Deborah Harkness (her All Souls trilogy is built around this one, which reads more like a history doctoral dissertation bound together with a few fictional threads. A tiny bit dry. Dry-as-the-Sahara, really. Oh, goddess I don't want to slog through another 110 pages...)

Stone Butch Blues
by Leslie Feinberg (because the past should not be forgotten)

SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
by Kalen Delaney (because what could be more fascinating, right?)

Eisenhower : in war and peace by Jean Edward Smith.

Liquid Evil

zygmunt bauman and leonidas donskis

https://books.google.de/books?id=ge4XDA ... il&f=false

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I'm reading this because I'm giving a college course on dramaturgy and animation, and figured I needed to introduce some cultural history to explain what it is that someone like tarantino is doing.... tarantino came up a few times, so I got into explaining what modernism is and how modernist avant garde became postmodern pop-culture.... and then I needed to explain why postmodernism is such a cultural dead end, constantly self-referencing and rediscussing itself, while the world outside is spinning out of control....

so I came across a different model, that doesn't end in postmodernity, and found liquid modernity.
and it's brilliant in explaining the world.

I might be leaving my field - animation- a bit behind, but I think in relation to cultural history, it's interesting, to say the least.

Michael's Big Book of Bad Things.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Move Under Ground, by Nick Mamatas.

This book was a birthday gift from my wife, which I am about to read. Beat icons Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs must save mankind when they discover that H.P. Lovecraft had not just been writing fiction. Beats and Cthulhu - - what could anyone ask for more?

Finally finished reading this:



... started out more than two months ago, but got caught up reading about Sikhism, Jainism and (especially) Japan...

It is - as I mentioned before - written from the perspective of a devout Catholic, and it shows... In a 527-page book, the author only devotes three quarters of a page to the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, and less than 4 lines to the Catholic policies wrt. HIV/AIDS... but goes out of his way to shower praise on both John Paul II and Benedict XVI...

... Regardless, it does offer very detailed insight into the internal controversies and schisms (the latter having a very specific meaning in Hitchcock's terminology) within the Catholic Church, and the influence of the Church on European history.

The first half of the book is arguably the best, as it deals with the development of the Catholic Church prior to the Reformation... which most people probably have less knowledge of than the post-1517 era.

Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge, Chicken Soup for the College Soul, Mockingbird