Unstructured Reading ¶
- Eat a Peach by David Chang
- VHF, Summits and More: Having Fun With Ham Radio by Robert A. Witte
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Structured Reading ¶
At the beginning of this year, I randomly downloaded the Harvard Classics/Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of books. This is a set of books that contains a selection of classic readings meant to provide a full classic liberal education in themselves.
My first exposure to this series was at my Granny’s house where she owned a subset of the shelf. I’ve never had a mind to read the entirety of the shelf.
Volume 50 of the 50-volume series contains several suggestions of the ways in which a reader may choose to tackle the task of intelligently navigating the embarrassment of material in the collection. I’ve naively chosen to follow the first suggested course of reading: The history of civilization.
Here I’ll track my progress and notes:
- Race and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman
- The Book of Job
- An Account of Egypt by Herodotus
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Oresteia by Aeschylus
- Oedipus the King & Antigone by Sophocles
- Hippolytus by Euripides
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- …