Your favourite books/author

[Belacqua]

Also, War and Peace (the first half).

You can skip about 80 pages at the end of War and Peace, because it's Tolstoy's theory of history (non-fiction) and not very relevant any more. The rest is good!

Here's my reading log book, since Christmas. Author, title, date finished.

Versluis; Restoring Paradise - Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness; 12/25

Richie; A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics; 12/25

Gaunt; The Aesthetic Adventure; 12-27

Maritain; Art and Scholasticism; 1/7

de Waal; The White Road [history of porcelain]; 1/10

Trapani; Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation - The Complete Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain; 1/23

Rogerson; Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell; 2/16

Falk; The Light Ages [medieval science]; 2/16

Plato; Philebus; 2/28

Rodriquez; Wild Heart [biography of a lesbian American who had a literary salon in Paris]; 3/4

Evangelista; British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece; 3/15

Kripal; Secret Body - Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions; 3/27

Peeters; Derrida [biography]; 4/17

Kerr; Another Kyoto; 4/19

Byatt; Peacock and Vine [William Morris and Fortuny]; 4/24

Theroux; In the Plain of Snakes [travel in Mexico]; 4/26

started this morning: Howlett; Marsilio Ficino and His World