Since I have the next month more-or-less to myself, I’m going to engage in something that I haven’t really had time for: reading for pleasure. Reading … for pleasure? Without deadlines and due dates and essays and strings attached? YES PLEASE!
One of the mistakes I made during the summer was attempting to read more than I could realistically handle: 40 000 pages in sixty books or something absurd like that. This month’s readings will be much more managable. Two of the texts will be rereads, favorites of mine that I make a point to reread at least once a year, namely:
- The Tragedy of King Richard III
- Transmetropolitan
The other texts are in no particular order, number less than two thousand pages collectively, and can easily be done in the course of two or three days per text. They include, but will not necessarily be limited to:
- Cambridge history of modern Iran
- NATO-Russia relations in the 21st century
- Global organizations: the United Nations
- Living history: Hillary Roham Clinton
- Very short introduction to international relations
- Very short introduction to Foucault
- Plato’s Symposium
- The Chechan wars: will Russia go the way of the Soviet Union?
- Stalinism on the frontier of empire: women and state formation in the Soviet far east
Its interesting to note that, while all of these books are obviously on subjects that I’m very interested in, only one of them is being read with the specific intention of preparing for a course (namely the History of modern Iran, with a possible segway into an Iranian history podcast). Otherwise than those two, which will have greater attention paid to them, I fully intend to just enjoy myself.
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