Forbidden Words And Phrases, 2012
Appletinirita Austerity budget Best. (anything). Ever. Bunga-Bunga pictures Butthurt Carmageddon Casey Anthony Collectable (used as a noun) Debt ceiling
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost: December 2011
The last of the pile of books I read in 2011. In which I finish the complete works of Plato and Aristotle, solve one of the greatest classics in detective fiction ever written, puzzle my way through...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost: January 2012
What I read in the first month of the new year. Thicker books, mostly, and fewer of them. Enjoy!
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, February 2012--Now with SONGS!
I've been asked by the moderators of the Readers and Book Lovers forum to stop posting there. And so, after 4+ years of crossposting to plf515's and cfk's Wednesday book diaries, I'll be sticking to...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost: March 2012
This month, in solidarity with an international protest against the big, internet-censoring Irritainment industry, I boycotted/avoided buying their products for the month. No movies, no television, no...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, April 2012
What I read last month.This month, I tell you which was Dashiell Hammett's greatest mystery, and why political professionals should read it, continue exploring Cicero, and discover two modern novels...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, May 2012
What I read this month.In this edition, works by Plutarch, Cicero, Nicholas Blake, Harlan Ellison, Isak Dinisen, Stanislaw Lem, Jim Butcher, John Green, Jonathan Franzen, Daphne Du Maurier and William...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, June 2012
What I read last month.Of special interest to political junkies is Niall Ferguson's ultimately disappointing but big look at Bush (and American in general) foreign policy in Colossus and my long...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, July 2012
What I read last month, spanning the centuries from Virgil and Tacitus to current NY Times bestseller Blackout.Of particular interest to political junkies is Jodi Kantor's behind the scenes biography...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, August 2012
It was interesting to see Niall Ferguson, whose book Colossus I reviewed this June without really knowing much about Ferguson, disgraced in August for fudging facts in a hatchet job on president Obama...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2012
This month: the second Game of Thrones book, the Discourses of Epictetus, the Zingers of Martial, several historical murder mysteries from ancient Rome, Rebecca West, Clifford D. Simak, Timothy...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost: October 2012
As my year of Ancient Rome moves into the Second Century AD, the pickings begin to get a little slim. One might even say that the Empire has peaked and is beginning to fail, and that this is reflected...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, November 2012
Monthly Bookposts are now back on the Readers & Booklovers forum, at a new and (for me, at least) more convenient time slot.This month, my year of reading Ancient Rome brings me to Will Durant,...
View ArticleForbidden words and phrases, 2013
AuthenticAwesomesauceBinders full of womenBroniesDigital HumanitiesDipshidiotDougieDudela
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, December 2012
What I read during the waning days of 2012.While I included some Roman hits from the second Century AD, including my hero Marcus Aurelius, in honor of the holiday season I went heavy on the light...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, January 2013
2011 was Greece. 2012 was Rome. This year, my booklist is heavy on bokks written in and about the roughly 1200 years between Marcus Aurelius and the Rennaissance. Unfortunately, that's going to mean a...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, February 2012
What I read last month.This month, my middle Ages-centered reading continues with a history of the early middle ages by Chris Wickham, works by Augustine, Ptolemy and Boethius, and two more sections...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, March 2013
What I read during the past month.This time around, I try to make sense and entertainment out of those short books of the Bible, and of some commentary by early church fathers, in keeping with my...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, April 2013
What I read last month.Still giving a focus to the Medieval era while making time for other thins, it got interesting as I reached the Islamic Golden Age, which coincided with Europe's Dark Ages, and...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, May 2013
What I read last month.This month, of particular interest to Kosters, I review Better Off Without 'Em, Chuck Thompson's controversial manifesto encouraging Southern secession.In keeping with my...
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