Hi all!
I’m launching a new monthly “What We’re Reading” segment in the Cosmos newsletter, and it will feature reading recommendations from active community members.
If you’d like to be included in the December edition, please post the title and author of a book on your reading list for next month (or one you’ve just started).
Your picks will help me put together the first installment for December.
Thanks in advance! Looking forward to seeing what everyone’s reading!
So as Requested a few travels in Consuming Ideas,Thoughts , Feeling Tones & Inner Landscapes of Other Earthlings!!!
I just finished reading Crime and Punishment. I had loved Notes from the Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, and other works by Dostoevsky as a young man, but since then hadn’t revisited his work—though he comes to mind quite often and I’d say was a major influence on me.
I’ve had one of the newer and more acclaimed translations (by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) on my shelf for a few years now, and, I don’t know why, but I suddenly decided a few weeks ago that now was the time to crack it open. Within a few pages, I was hooked and I often had trouble putting the book down. The story and the characters are so deep and compelling and human.
I am a big fan of the “classics”—though they don’t always live up. But I’d say the reputation of this novel as a masterpiece is well-deserved.
Great selections, thank you everyone!
@madrush I have that one downloaded on my Kindle, you’ve inspired me to bring it towards the top of my to-read list!
I just started tearing through The Cafe on the Edge of the World. On a recent day trip, I myself stumbled upon the Three Questions Cafe here in this remote corner of New Mexico—the place that inspired it.
Here are my December reads:
Recommended scifi from a fabulous writer whose work I already know - a kind of indictment of capitalism from what I have heard.
This is a Canadian indigenous writer and includes a two-spirit character I have heard.
This is a slow read. I love Derrida, who writes about the unsayable. This includes the essay whereby he introduced the writings of Emmanual Levinas to the world. Levinas is the philosopher who writes about the Other as a concept,
Lispector is one of the 20th century giants. Her style escapes all attempts at definition. It is neither fiction nor essay nor yet autobiography, although there are elements of all three in what she puts down on the page. A masterpiece. Here is a snippet from my current page: “I hear the hollow boom of time. It’s the world deafly forming. If I can hear that is because I exist before the formation of time.” It is translated from Portuguese; she was a Brazilian writer.
I am a big fan of both Stengers and Whitehead, so this has joined my TBR list!
