My Summer Reading Stack
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Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I see Cicero, Josephus, Xenophon, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and something by C. S. Lewis (I think). I am not sure about some of the others.
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
Lewis, Selected Essays
Plutarch
Herodotus
Edmund Spenser
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Plutarch
Herodotus
Edmund Spenser
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Boswell's Life of Johnson
J.L. Allen
Puritan Board Sophomore
How long will it take you to read those (how long per book with page count)?
Do you take requests? I have some stuff I’d like to see a review of.
Do you take requests? I have some stuff I’d like to see a review of.
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
Depends on how the summer goes.
SolaScriptura
Puritanboard Brimstone
With all that reading, when are you going to have time to split and stack the firewood you’ll need to survive the winter?
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
That's actually one of my summer chores
Hamalas
whippersnapper
Fortunately the winters in Louisiana are...manageable (coming from a resident of Michigan).
ZackF
Puritan Board Professor
But Jacob’s reading habits are not....
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
That's true, though this is more in the line of clearing lumber.
bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
I predict that you'll love James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, in which case, here's two more you should read:
Samuel Johnson, edited by David Womersley; 21st-Century Oxford Authors series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). This is a 1,294-page anthology of Johnson's writings, covering his entire life as a writer. The selections are arranged chronologically, not by genre, so you get a sense of his growth and development as a writer.
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). It's a volume of biographies of Johnson and the friends of his who were members of The Literary Club, founded by Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1763. Some of the most brilliant intellectuals and writers of the 18th century were members. There's lot of fascinating details about the London Johnson knew.
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
I'm 500 pages into it. Johnson is my hero.
I've seen it. I'm not ready to commit yet. I want to.
Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
If I remember correctly, when Samuel Johnson visited Scotland on one occasion, he stayed with the father of Alexander McLeod (the American RP).
C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
Is the point to impress us? I see these kinds of posts on social media and they usually strike me as somewhat braggadocious.
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
No. I think this is the only picture I have posted on PB. I have nothing to impress. I know who I am. People always ask me what I am reading, so I posted it.
alexandermsmith
Puritan Board Junior
He has to read them first.
C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
Though I am sure it wasn't your intention, these kinds of things just strike me as vain displays of erudition. Godly individuals indulging in such behavior online is sadly very common.
RamistThomist
Puritanboard Clerk
My various reading has helped people. I woke up this morning to a message from a PhD candidate asking me for advice. I don't do this for myself (Or only a little bit). If I wanted to be vain and boastful, I would have posted all of the books I am reading. I didn't do that because my Wal Mart flip phone doesn't really take pictures and I really didn't know how to work my daughter's kindle fire.
C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
Brother, you misread me. Admitting it was "wasn't your intention" to be vain or boastful while at the same time explaining my initial post on the grounds that many are, is not mutually exclusive. I do sincerely accept your explanation. I was only explaining my initial response.
Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
Sounds like you need to add 1 more book to your summer list (Instruction Manual for the Kindle).
Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
Jacob,Sounds like you need to add 1 more book to your summer list (Instruction Manual for the Kindle).
I found it (we expect a review!):
https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-...t=&hvlocphy=9013893&hvtargid=pla-571780127415
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