Backed up on reading
Without me noticing, a piling stack of books has risen on my desk, waiting to be read.
Beginning with “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar” – a comical review of philosophy though jokes.
Read it 2/3 through and suddenly stopped. It’s quite humorous – it opens with:
“These are my Principles … If you don’t like them, I have others”
Graucho Marx.
Next up is “In Praise Of Slow” (The Hebrew title sounds better - “בשבח האיטיות”), by Carl Honore - a book about doing things slowly and enjoying them.
Followed by “Naked Soul” by Ada Lampert - a scientific personal story about Ada Lampert’s exploration of the human soul.
Then “Subtle Knife” by Philip Pullman - a sequel to the excellent “Golden Compass”.
And finally, two books I got today from my sister - “The selfish Gene” and “The Blind Watchmaker” by Richard Dawkins. Both greatly praised books about evolution.
Daunting.
And as a side dish, I have “The Complete Photography Course” which I bought in London and have barely looked into, and Orson Scott Card’s “The Memory Of Earth” (in English) and “Worthing Cronicle” (in Russian) which I gave up on midway since it takes me forever to read in Russian.
And I almost forgot - “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster” is somewhere out there waiting to be read. Should HE hear about it I’ll be in trouble, but HE probably doesn’t have Internet, nor is HE following this blog, so I should be fine.
It’s best that I get offline and resume the reading ….
