Finished in the past month:
- ★★★★ The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson; Elina gave it to me!
- ★★★★ A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; Elina gave it to me!
- ★★★ Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler; found at Sefer v’Sefel
- ★★★ Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler; found at Sefer v’Sefel
- ★ A Case of Need by Michael Crichton; from our landlord Yaakov’s library
Reading Now:
- The Log from The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck; found at Sefer v’Sefel
- The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev, translated by Hillel Halkin; Elina found it at The Book Gallery
- The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz; Elina picked it up at a bookstore at Wolfson Towers
- The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilbur; recommended by Eitan, given to me by Raphael (Thanks!)
- Contemporary Orthodox Judaism’s Response to Modernity by Rabbi Barry Freundel
Coming Up:
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; found at the Book Gallery
- Hebrew & Modernity by Robert Alter; found at the Book Gallery
I guess I should mention that I read half of Killing Time by Caleb Carr, but I just couldn’t go on, it was so bad. I guess he should stick to historical fiction and military history.
