Each long holiday break, I find a couple of books that I would not ordinary read and make them a priority. This gives me a chance to get a new perspectives on old problems or to see what all the buzz is about for a book outside my primary (and increasingly narrow) field of research interest.
This winter, I plan to read:
S. Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time. Oxford 2008. This books caused such a buzz last spring and summer that I was actually embarrassed not to have at least skimmed it.
M. Auge, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. Trans. J. Howe. Verso 1995. Mostly because I am going to spend about 65 hours in airports this break and airports are quintessential non-places.
Cyril of Scytholopolis, The Lives of the Monks of Palestine. Trans. R. M. Price. Cistercian Press 1991. The real question is what can’t you learn from 6th century Palestinian monks.
So, let’s crowdsource a reading list for this winter break. What will you be reading this holiday season?
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Dallas DeForest // December 12, 2009 at 8:08 pm |
Christopher Woodward, In Ruins: A Journey through History, Art and Literature.
Marius Kociejowski, The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey.
Colin Wells, Sailing from Byzantium
Not too much heavy lifting, but it’s Christmas after all.
Daniel Sauerwein // December 22, 2009 at 5:14 am |
Bill,
In all the craziness of the end of semester, I did not respond to this post, but your blog post reminded me that I should contribute. I am finishing up a couple books that I will review over break. One is Earl Hess’s The Rifled Musket in Civil War Combat, published by Kansas. The other review will be on John Keegan’s The American Civil War: A Military History. In addition, I will be reading Recent Themes in Military History: Historians in Conversation. I meant to bring John Grenier’s latest book, but forgot it in the rush to pack and finish work.