John M's Blog: September 2023

Books Read

Rook, by Steve Eoannou - The Southpaw, by Mark Harris - Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (3rd time) - There Is Nothing For You Here, by Fiona Hill - Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis - How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith - The Socrates Express, by Eric Weiner - Finding Katarina, by Elizabeth Elo - Speak, Memory, by Vladimir Nabokov Athens, by Robin Waterfield The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov Inferno, by Max Hastings The Plague, by Albert Camus The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry Educated, by Tara Westover Eurydice Street, by Sofka Zinovieff The First Cell, by Azra Raza Ghettoside, by Jill Levoy The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo Muscle Cars, by Steve Eoannou Russians, the People Behind the Power, by Gregory Feifer I Live Again, a Memoir of Ileana, Princess of Romania Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to War, by Max Hastings The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert Massie The Cretan Runner, by George Psychoundakis My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard The Secret War, by Max Hastings The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien Buffalo: City on the Edge, by Mark Goldman The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Mukiwa, by Peter Godwin The Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever The Great Fire, by Carl Ureneck The Blue Star, by Tony Earley Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor, by Paul Stephenson Writers and Age, by Esther Harriott Can't we talk about something more pleasant? by Roz Chast Ghost Horse, by Thomas McNeely Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev The Schirmer Inheritence, by Eric Ambler Why Socrates Died, by Robin Waterfield The Americans, by Alistair Cooke Time's Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas, by Arnold J. Bauer Ithaka on the Horizon, by Stavro Nashi Tolstoy: A Russian Life, by Rosamund Bartlett War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy A Coffin for Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler The Sleepwalkers: how Europse went to war in 1914, by Christopher Clark A Place for Us, by Nicholas Gage The Sea Wolf, by Jack London Mozart: a Life, by Peter Gay Lady with Lapdog and other Stories of Anton Chekhov The First Twenty Minutes, by Gretchen Reynolds Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, by Leo Tolstoy The Dinner, by Herman Koch Verdi, by Joseph Wechsberg Ireland, Short Stories by Willam Trevor The Death of Ivan Illych, and other short fiction, by Leo Tolstoy Best Person Rural, by Noel Perrin The Heart of the Matter, by Grahame Green The Good Times, by Russell Baker Brahms, by Karl Geiringer The Soviet Experiment, by Ronald Suny The Forseeable Future, by Reynolds Price In Concert, by Carl A. Vigeland Letters to a Young Contrarian, by Christopher Hitchens Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre Borderlines, by Edmund Keeley And Quiet Flows the Don, by Mikhael Sholakhov Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer My Russia, by Peter Ustinov Travels in Siberia, by Ian Frazier The Convent, by Panos Karnezis The Third Reich at War, by Richard J. Evans The Third Reich in Power, by Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard J. Evans Othello, Shakespeare Spies of the Balkans, Alan Furst Gun, with Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem Snow, by Orhan Pamuk Why Courage Matters, by John McCain In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Corrections, by Frantzen The March, by E.L. Doctorow Catch-22, by Joseph Heller One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs The Sounds and the Fury, by William Faulkner The Emigrants, by W.G. Sebald Pere Goriot, by Honore Balzac Malone Dies, by Samuel Beckett Leviathan, by Eric Jay Dolin Native Son, by Richard Wright Dispatches from the Edge, by Anderson Cooper Macbeth, by William Shakespeare Hell's Angels, by Hunter Thompson King Lear, by Shakespeare Across the River and Into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway Not Even My Name, by Thea Halo Creationists, by E.L. Doctorow Richard III, by Shakespeare Everyman, by Philip Roth Dubliners, by James Joyce Peeling the Onion, by Gunter Grass Maigret Afraid, by George Simenon Grant, by Jean Edward Smith Third Person Rural, by Noel Perrin The Headless Corpse (a Maigret novel), by George Simenon Paradise Lost: the Destruction of Smyrna, by Giles Milton A Reader's Manifesto, by B. R. Myers The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Old School, by Tobias Wolf 1776, by David McCullough My Antonia, by Willa Cather Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, by Edmund Hillary High Adventure, by Edmund Hillary Byzantium, the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Travels to the End of the Russian Empire, by Anton Chekhov The Balkans, by Mark Masower Blindness, by Jose Saramago Maigret and the Toy Village, by George Simenon Castle Rock, by Alice Munro Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre Borderlines, by Edmund Keeley

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

There Is Nothing For You Here -- a decent memoir that needs trimming