Books I Read January 17th

And look, the LORD is about to pass over, with a great and strong wind tearing apart mountains and smashing rocks before the LORD. Not in the wind is the LORD. And after the wind an earthquake. Not in the earthquake is the LORD. And after the earthquake—fire. Not in the fire is the LORD. And after the fire, a sound of minute stillness.

I hope you’re safe.

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold – I read this book.

Erasmus of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig – A hagiography to the early enlightenment's most cosmopolitan thinker. Zweig's fuzzy, exaggerated enthusiasm is such that I managed to read 300 pages on Erasmus of Rotterdam without actually learning very much about Erasmus of Rotterdam. Which is unfortunate, because that was really my motivation behind getting this out of the library.

Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter – Still holds up.

Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia – An upright investigator squares off against a corrupt society in this brief gut punch of a novel. Sciascia is the Italian Manchette. Or is Manchette the French Sciascia?