Finished reading: This Fierce People by Alan Pell Crawford 📚💙💙💙💙🖤
Finished reading: Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy 📚🤣💙💙💙💙💙
Finished reading: Legion versus Phalanx by Myke Cole 📚💙💙💙💙💙
Finished reading: The Language Puzzle by Steven Mithen 📚💙💙💙💙🖤
Finished reading: Inventing the Individual by Larry Siedentop 📚meh, possibly dated a bit.
Finished reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚 Very helpful on AI issues 💙💙💙💙💙
Finished reading: The Stories of English by David Crystal 📚A touch dated, especially in discussion of the internet, but 💙💙💙💙
Finished reading: The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman 📚💙💙🖤🖤🖤
Finished reading: Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon by Rory Muir 📚👍👍
Finished reading: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Carlos Eire 📚👍👍👍
Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport 📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finished reading: Natural Reason and Natural Law by James Carey 📚👍👍
Finished reading: The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss by Laurence Lampert 📚
Finished reading: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer 📚Classic.
Finished reading: The First Total War by David A. Bell 📚👍👍Two thumbs up.
Finished reading: The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel 📚Could have been longer, very engaging.
Finished reading: Shakespeare’s Book by Chris Laoutaris 📚Fantastic level of detail.👍
YEAR IN BOOKS FOR 2023
📚Here are the books I finished reading in 2023. Not a bad year, although I should do more philosophy/theology next year.
Finished reading: Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard 📚Workmanlike, interesting perspective.
Finished reading: The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey 📚
Finished reading: The Septuagint by Greg Lanier 📚Basic but good.
Finished reading: Christendom by Peter Heather 📚A bit dyspeptic.
Finished reading: The Cult of the Saints by Peter Brown 📚Classic though slightly dated.
Finished reading: Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Jonathan I. Israel 📚Exhaustive and thorough!
Finished reading: The World Behind the World by Erik Hoel 📚Neuroscience and free will; very valuable.