Summer reading; first, in summary

Reading for pleasure does not for me mean "non-serious" reading. Since I enjoy serious topics, philosophy and such, and since I am usually writing some sort of publication for which I have research-driven reading, my leisure reading covers a wide range of materials I am reading for no particular reason other than intellectual curiosity. My list of books I am lining up to read are on LibraryThing.

This summer, in addition to working on a book chapter for an edited collection of essays about the core sources for international legal research, I went through a few titles of which the following are just highlights. I like to wander back to fiction, as well as cultural history and philosophy. I am giving each a brief review in my next blog post.

Jose Saramago, Death With Interruptions (2008)

Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)

Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2009)

Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (2007)

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913)