Aristotle's Way

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

Yesterday, I gushed to the senior Reese like a mad person about how much I loved this book. I listened to it and got many, many ideas about how to enhance my life. From how to approach friendship (you give a friend two chances to hurt you -- but never three), how to spend leisure time, the nature of the good life, how walking aids thinking. Amazing how Aristotle's ideas speak to us today.

The book itself is very easy to read. Not stupid, but definitely designed as self-help for people who might think they're too good for self-help. I'm not one of those people. I unashamedly love self help books. This was a good one.

I am wading to the end of The Bostonians.

Some reading failures

Hi guys,

I am bogged down in the middle of Henry James' The Bostonians. I made a resolution to read or reread all of his work in 2019 and I was dashing along until I got to the middle of The Bostonians. I imagine no one is surprised. One of these weeks I'll wade out of this morass.

In my airbnb there are hundreds of books and one night, falling asleep over HJ, I picked up Out of Africa. It is wonderful. The movie eclipsed the book in my memory. That is a shame. The writing is sharp, perceptive, vivid, funny. I'm just worried I won't finish it before we leave.