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- Brilliant writer, thought provoking answers
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- Anecdotal, hilarious
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- Most dexterous, fluid use of language I’ve ever read
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- Feeding the inner economist
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- Complex, intricate, unfinished
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- A study of man under seige
Noam Chomsky “What We Say Goes”- Enlightening, but does present a depressing outlook for those new to the international socioeconopolitical game. Makes you think about the bigger picture and ask, what kind of world am I living in?
Junot Diaz “the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”- Fantastic read, and the innate historical theme of the Dominican Republic and subsequent DR immigration story to New York is fascinating. Should remind readers that no matter how bad their adolescence was, it could have been worse.
Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina”- Took me three months. Worth it, though. I wish I had the discipline to do some actual research on the time period, pre-communist Russia, under the Czardom. Some of the most agile and tasteful uses of words to describe everyday, common things.
Working on Ethan S. Harris’ “Ben Bernanke’s Fed”- Taking a break, as it reads like an economic textbook. It’s a good time to know how the Fed uses the funds rate, and how it affects us middle class consumers.
Thinking about retackling Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain” and John Updike’s “the Centaur”… both were so complex and had overlapping themes that I was overwhelmed when I first got them.
Jane Cho said,
January 31, 2009 at 12:59 am
you got me into Leo Tolstoy with “The Kreutzer Sonata” and i am really excited to read more of his works, esp. War and Peace, which is highly acclaimed, and A Confession, regarding Christ. i found him on Wikipedia and his life & thoughts are so fascinating! he truly went against the grain, even opposing the Russian Orthodox Church in the name of true Christianity, and being sincerely concerned with the meaning of life. The Wikipedia entry says, “Tolstoy had always been fundamentally a rationalist. But at the time he wrote his great novels, his rationalism was suffering an eclipse. The philosophy of War and Peace and Anna Karenina [...] was a surrender of his rationalism to the inherent irrationality of life. Any notion that one could have control over one’s own life and the lives of others was abandoned.” to see the twists and turns of his life through his writing is extremely interesting. i’m so glad you had his book at home!