What I’m Reading

• Fun Reading: Narziß und Goldmund by Herman Hesse.  I have had this book for at least five years, and I’ve tried (and failed) to read it at least five times.  It starts with a sentence that takes up most of the first page.  That awful German language indeed, Mr. Twain.
• Soul Reading: Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, ed. Doug Bandow and David L. Schindler.  A priestly friend of mine (no, seriously, he’s a priest) gave me this probably ten years ago, and I’m going to give it another try.  Looks like it starts off with a bunch of economic liberals spouting off about the glories of capitalism, and then responses to the same.  We’ll see how serious those responses actually are.
• Theory Reading: Das Kapital I. Yup, still at it.  As a matter of fact, I’m exactly where I was when I posted on this a few months ago.  Sigh.
• Dissertation Reading: I don’t have anything right now, but I really need something on colonialism.  Suggestions?
• How-We-Do Reading: On History by Eric Hobsbawm.  A collection of essays by the master himself.  I bought this book eleven years ago while I was living in Berlin.  I found myself in an English-language bookstore for the first time in months, and I went on a spending spree, including this text.  Never read it.  As a matter of fact, I think I’ve only touched it to put it in boxes for moves.  I figure it’s been it at least six different houses/apartments.  About time that I opened up the cover.