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I finished the first volume of Theodore Mommsen's (winner, 1902) complete history of Rome. I would give the title but there have been various titles over the years, apparently. I read the volume pertaining to Pre-Roman life. According to the intro it covers "up to the Punic Wars" but that's wrong. It covers up to about 750 BC ( Read more... ) -
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I finished Svetlana Alexievich's (winner, 2015) Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. This book will haunt me forever ( Read more... ) -
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I finished Rudolf Eucken's (winner, 1908) Ethics and Modern Thought. It's a collection of lectures that are severely disappointing. I did manage to keep this one paragraph:
It is the essence of all deep religions, especially of Christianity, that a new life is created in man by a revelation of the Divine by means of a direct union of the soul with ( Read more... ) -
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Since the last entry I read two more authors, which puts me at 100 ( Read more... ) -
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I finished Mikhail Sholokhov's (winner, 1965) And Quiet Flows The Don this weekend. It doesn't stand out to me, but then no Russian novel really does. Everyone's an asshole, everyone treats everyone else (or in one or two cases, themselves) like complete garbage. But then the book, the first of a substantial series, details the lives of Cossacks in ( Read more... ) -
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I finished two plays by Jacinto Benavente (winner, 1922). They were well-written and well-constructed but thick, and are very much mired in their time. And not in a quaint, endearing way. But they still show talent, and a willingness to go to novel-like density in a play that is, after the sparseness of much modern playwriting, refreshing.
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Thanksgiving
I am thankful for the love and support of all of my friends and family, those near and far, those close, and merely known ( Read more... )
