Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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How do you reconcile yourself with death and the decrees of fate?
Take some advice from this gentle soul. Contemplate the permanence of change and cast away opinion. Yours, that is. And if, like me, you occasionally find yourself thinking that it might be just a bit easier to reconcile oneself with one’s fate if one happens to be the Emperor of Rome well, we’ve just got some philosophical work to do, don’t we?
The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
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Delightful!
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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Amazing, beautiful, gorgeous novel. Highly recommended.
Outlaw Cook by John Thorne
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Very enjoyable writing about cooking and eating by an opinionated author. Some nice recipes, too.
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
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Another crazily-complicated title in this crazily-complicated series. Not for everyone, but I’m having a good time.
The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Hecht explores the notion of happiness and how to get it by contrasting modern sensibilities with past perspectives on the topic. It makes for an eye-opening approach and I love the clarity of Hecht’s writing.
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
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Smartly written and affecting. Recommended.
Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind by Daniel C. Dennett
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Interviews with clergy from different faiths who have lost their own.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
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Loved it.
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome & the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter R.L. Brown
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Fantastic. Very thoroughly researched history of how wealth and Christianity intersected during the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Medieval era.