Dominion is magisterial, perhaps the height of Holland’s power as a historian. This book, hitherto, has defied my abilities as a reviewer and I really want to get a few remarks down on the blog at some point. A book that I read near two years ago and have indeed re-read. It helps to keep Skallas’ axiom about the 4HL in mind: if people have such limited leisure time, recommending something bad to read/watch is tantamount to eating up their life. Admittedly, not all are on the Classics, but it is alarming how few I feel comfortable recommending. This is surprisingly difficult by the way! I must have ploughed through 100 books or so. I know why the five or six readers I have stop by her occasionally, and it’s not to hear my musings on economics or poetry such like. Lastly, I will try to cite only books directly concerning or potentially useful to Classics. I will endeavour not to list books I have re-read, or mentioned elsewhere.
As I said earlier, I am barely cognisant of the elision between 2020-1 as it is, and I am not exactly on the receiving end of free books and ARCs from publishers, hot off the press. Since I am not an NPC I will not solely be listing books published in 2021. Whilst, lector dulcissime, the list will be ribbed numbered for your convenience the books are in no way to be ranked.
Look I no longer even pretend to edit these things, so if it stops at 5 or 6, you have been warned. I will try to get to 10 books, I may, I may not.
This is compounded by the fact that without the usual calendar of feast days – both secular and religious – and thanks to the misdemeanours of a conservative government neither conservative (ask the wildlife, oh wait) in nature nor capable of governing, I have very little idea of when 2020 ended and 2021 started. I read like I knit wool: far too much speed and aggression and far too little attention paid to my surroundings, so it is surprisingly difficult for me to remember what I have read. Straight away there are problems with this.
But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass”.Īh books! Where else does one learn that, truly, the ass is the ass? I thought I would try to jump in on the current trend of nominating 10 books read during 2021 that have been worth their while. “…and I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. You ought to remain amongst and be nourished by certain masterly authors, should you wish for something to be lodge more faithfully in your mind. Nusquam est qui ubique est.īut ware, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every genre has you wandering and unsteady. Certis ingeniis immorari et innutriri oportet, si velis aliquid trahere quod in animo fideliter sedeat. Illud autem vide, ne ista lectio auctorum multorum et omnis generis voluminum habeat aliquid vagum et instabile.