books being read // music appreciated
I’m going to ask a question here. How many books have you read so far this year? What are you reading? If you are reading, where do you get your books? As a student, I am constantly reading my textbooks, and I’m also pretty constantly (sometimes to my own detriment) “monitoring the situation”. So I read quite a bit of non-fiction. I also try to throw fiction or historical fiction in there just to keep my brain active and my imagination running. This is what I’ve been reading lately: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - about an American who volunteers to fight for the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. This book was declared "non-mailable" ( censored... ) by the US Post Office in 1940 and is considered one of the best war novels of all time. Hemingway does not disappoint... The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber - A pretty hefty read of sociological theory that people haven't stopped talking about since it was pub...