Reading: 2006

These are the Books I read in 2006

  • William Shakespeare – King Lear
  • Hardin Craig – The Enchanted Glass: The Renaissance Mind in English Literature
  • Justus Lipsius – De Constantia
  • Arthur Quinn – Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase
  • Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
  • Kishore Mahbubani – Can Asians Think?
  • Alan Warren – Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat
  • William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
  • Hywel Williams – Britain’s Power Elites: The Rebirth of a Ruling Class (Guardian Review)
  • William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew
  • Brenda James & William Rubinstein – The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare (henryneville.com)
  • William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra
  • Lisa Jardine & Alan Stewart – Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
  • G. G. Harrison – Introducing Shakespeare (…by way of a contrast to “The Truth Will Out”…)
  • William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors
  • Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Last read it when I was 17… Great opening chapter.)
  • John Roe – Shakespeare and Machiavelli
  • Edmund Blunden – A Wanderer in Japan
  • Natsume Souseki – Botchan (Last read it in 1991… This time round I read an entertaining colloquial American “Devil-may-care” translation.)
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time of Gifts (Read about PLF in this Criterion article by Ben Downing.)
  • Anthony Browne – Do We Need Mass Immigration?
  • Dave Barry – Dave Barry Does Japan
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor – Between the Woods and the Water
  • Georges Sorel – Reflections on Violence
  • Walter Kaufmann – Discovering the Mind: Goethe, Kant & Hegel
  • P. G. Wodehouse – The Heart of a Goof
  • Robert N. Huey – Kyogoku Tamekane: Poetry & Politics in Late Kamakura Japan
  • Germaine Greer – The Female Eunuch
  • Mark Lilla – The Reckless Minds: Intellectuals in Politics
  • Ooka Makoto – Love Songs from the Manyoshu, with illustrations by Miyata Masayuki
  • P. G. Wodehouse – Leave it to Psmith

Poetry 2006

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson – Locksley Hall
  • William Shakespeare – The Phoenix and the Turtle
  • William Shakespeare – A Lover’s Complaint
  • William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece

Essays and Pamphlets 2006

  • Roger Scruton – England and The Need for Nations (Published by Civitas)
  • Raymond Chapman – A Godly and Decent Order
  • Roger Homan – What Has The Beautiful to Do with The Holy?
  • Margot Thomson – The Prayer Book, Shakespeare and the English Language
  • Samuel P. Huntington – The Clash of Civilizations
  • John Bernard – Writing and the paradox of the self: Machiavelli’s literary vocation (“…the inventive plasticity of the writer is grounded in the inherent stability of the creative self.”)

Audio Books

  • William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar (unabridged)
  • William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew (unabridged)
  • William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra (unabridged)
  • William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors (unabridged)
  • William Shakespeare – Two Gentlemen of Verona (unabridged)
  • William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece (unabridged. Narrated by David Ian Davies but with one verse missing and several lapses and choppy editing…)

Books I looked into in 2006

  • Matt Berry – Self-Behaviourism: The Role of Repetition in the Meaning of Life
  • R. R. Fennessy – Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man
  • Thomas Carlyle – Heroes and Hero Worship
  • Richard Temple – Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity
  • St. Augustine – On Christian Doctrine
  • Simon de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity
  • Ernest Gellner – Nations and Nationalism
  • Max Weber – Politics as a Vocation
  • Kenneth Burke – Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
  • Hugh Grady – Shakespeare, Machiavelli, & Montaigne
  • Steven Ozment – A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (“History in English” with Dr. Mogami)
  • Raymond Tallis – Enemies of Hope: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism
  • Erich Auerbach – Mimesis

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