Favorite Nonfiction Reading from 2024!

[@MarinaK03]

Yes, to a separate video on the Consolation of Philosophy, please. :)

[@TheNovelHoneyShelf-Essie]

great books. thanks for sharing.

[@abdulfattah202]

Great books and reviews, thank you. I definitely want to check out the works by Sidney Alexander and Anthony Kaldellis.

[@pedterson]

Beautiful selections! Made me put everything aside to re-read the octavo notebooks. Some of Kafka's shortest fragments are among his greatest treasures. And they force you to read at the slow pace that Kafka's writing always demands and always rewards well. I learned some of them by heart like poetry. Others like jokes. For some reason, I didn't read much literary non-fiction this year, but Helen Czerski's Blue Machine was a fantastic popular science book that opened a whole world to me. It's rare to find a popular science author who has a comprehensive understanding but still humility towards their subject - and who also writes well. And there are just so many astonishing stories in this book, I've been thinking about it for months.

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

Hey, I also read The Consolation of Philosophy this past year! :D I really enjoyed it myself. :)

[@davidnovakreadspoetry]

Great to hear about this. I read Boethius while young, not the Penguin, and it made a good impression on me. I suppose now as an old man I should really consider rereading it; then I scarcely understood any of the context. I await your video on the new translation.