End of year book review
2022 is quickly coming to an end. I still have six books on my list I wanted to get through, but unless I decide to do nothing but read for the next 10 days those will stay unread until the new year. I might get through one of those six, maybe two if I decide to dedicate myself. Which is very unlikely because I'm terrible at this sort of thing. But still, even though I'm not a book fiend, 2022 has been a decent year when it comes to book reading and so I wanted to take a moment to recap what I read in the past 300+ days, what I'm reading and what my goals are for the upcoming new year. So, in no particular order:
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
- Psicoanalisi e buddhismo zen by Erich Fromm
- In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
- The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Allan Watts
- A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
- Some Prefer nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
- The stranger by Albert Camus
- The ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (again)
Does this list tell something about who I am and what I'm interested in? Maybe yes, but you tell me. As for books I'm currently reading we have:
- Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Che tu sia per me il coltello by David Grossman
- Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon
- Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki
- The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
- Become what You are by Alan Watts
- Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
- Humble Pi by Matt Parker
Hopefully none of these are gonna be unread by the time the next year comes to an end, but we'll see how it goes. If you want to keep up with what I'm reading you can follow me on that lovely platform that is Literal.
I asked Carl to publish his list of books because it’s fun to do these things together. You can read his list on his blog. If you decide to publish yours let me know and I’ll make sure to include it down here as well.