What are you currently reading?

[SimonNZ]

Started:



Had been wanting something good on both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson and this big volume in the Oxford History Of the United States series provides both and so much more.

At some point in the near future I'll also be doing the Reconstruction/Gilded age Volume in the same series (when I'm ready for another 900 pages):

[Mandryka]

Just reread the first part of Kundera's L'immortalité (my edition is French, évidement) There was an old Easy Jet boarding pass in the book - June 2019, Montpellier to London, I remember seeing Winterreise with Ballet Preljocaj dancing there in a 50° heat wave, terrible performance - so 5 years since I read it. Disturbing to think about the passage of time.


I think it's really good! I see myself in it!

[Henk]

Just reread the first part of Kundera's L'immortalité (my edition is French, évidement) There was an old Easy Jet boarding pass in the book - June 2019, Montpellier to London, I remember seeing Winterreise with Ballet Preljocaj dancing there in a 50° heat wave, terrible performance - so 5 years since I read it. Disturbing to think about the passage of time.


I think it's really good! I see myself in it!

I have it in Dutch translation. I hope to read it sometime, but that can take a while.

[LKB]

My Precious has arrived:



( Not used to posting images, it'll be better next time. )

[vers la flamme]

My Precious has arrived:



( Not used to posting images, it'll be better next time. )

More pics, please! 

[vers la flamme]

Don't walk, gentlemen --- run! This is one of the best book of general cultural history I've ever read (some few factual errors notwithstanding, such as attributing to Plautus the famous adage of Terence: Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto), together with Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages.

I didn't know Barzun was well over 90 when he published this!

[LKB]

More pics, please! 

It's out of the box now, but not yet unwrapped.

Since that vendor link didn't show what the pages and maps look like, I'll try to get some pics in here later this evening.