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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

What we read last month


Here's what I read last month. Only three titles, but the Roman history book was very long, so I did do as much reading as usual in May, it just doesn't look like it:

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. I was really pleased to read this again after several decades, see my comments. 

The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Anthony Kaldellis. excellent history book, one of the best I've read in awhile. Here is Kaldellis on the Crusades. 

Every Tom, Dick & Harry, Elinor Lipman. I always enjoy her romantic comedies, this is her latest. 

Posted on Facebook, here is what Mark K. Brown last month. Notice that he read Eric Wagner's book twice, a pretty good recommendation! Also, the Greg Bear really impressed me when I read it years ago: 

Blood Music by Greg Bear 5/13   

Straight Outta Dublin: James Joyce and Robert Anton Wilson by Eric Wagner (x2) 5/13  

This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin  5/17   

A Messiah at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock  5/19   

Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie Fiedler  5/22   

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan  5/29

7 comments:

Eric Wagner said...

Thanks to both of you for reading my book. I hope to finish rereading Charles Rosen's "Sonata Forms" this week.

Kickaa23 said...

Thanks for the shout out. I do want to point out that these are books I finished last month. I may have started them months ago. I'm a fast reader but sometimes I spread myself a little thin, especially when reading one book twice.

Kickaa23 said...

My pleasure. Thanks for writing it. Now if we could just get one from Michael Johnson.

Anonymous said...

It’s been decades since I read Blood Music but I loved it at the time. A little bit of a synchronicity. I recently started reading Love and Death in the American Novel.

Eric Wagner said...

I loved Leslie Fiedler's book "The Stranger in Shakespeare".

Oz Fritz said...

I read and enjoyed This Is Your Brain on Music years ago. Stewart Copeland gave it to me after a project.

Last month I read: A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Essays Critical and Clinical by Gilles Deleuze
Pledging My Time - Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members by Ray Padgett
Scientific Healing Affirmations by Paramahansa Yogananda

Kickaa23 said...

In my TBR.