Acquired (5)
B. Goldacre, Bad Science
R. Fischer, Wiffle lever to full
J. Hannan, God's Philosophers
A.W. Montford, The Hockey stick illusion
L. Sterne, A Sentimental Journal though France and Italy
Read (6)
BOTM: L. Sciascia, The wine dark sea
Adamson, The European courts 1500-1700
Cragg, The Church in the Age of Reason
R. Fischer, Wiffle lever to full
J. Hale, The Civilisation of Europe in the renaissance
Penguin History of Britiain: the Tudors
Remaining - 53
New books starting to creep in, though all save Sterne were gifts. Sterne I was reading about in Slightly Foxed (which, by the way, is lovely) and then saw the next day for a pound - serendipity such as this should not be blocked. It's also starting also to be a bit of a slog. Hale is long and while good, I feel it's a thesis that could have been expressed quicker. In reaction perhaps, Sciascia is my book of the month. I first read him on holiday in Sicily and then picked this up later. He's a delight, especially in this collection of short stories, though his novel The Day of the Owl is also excellent. They're biting, brilliant evocations of his native Sicily, where, as he observes, the sea is never 'wine dark'.
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