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Thank you.
The fathers and sons piece on Odysseus is amazing.
Hi Tommy – do you have a Goodreads? I was thinking about adding all of these to a Goodreads shelf, but wanted to make sure I wasn’t duplicating effort. (I tried scraping your webpage and putting them straight into Goodreads, but Goodreads requires an ISBN to do text importing…)
I have been doing a very similar project to you, but I have been reading the core books in Harold Bloom’s ‘The Western Canon.’ It’s funny that we both started at roughly the same time, and it’s been lovely to see your reactions to some of the same books I have been reading.
Hi Cihan!
I do have a Goodreads but I haven’t used it in a year or so — I’ll see if I can throw everything together. 🙂 Do you have a link to what you’ve been reading? Are you keeping a blog? Would love to read more!
Tommy
P.S. Any interest in joining for a few classes of the discussion series? https://interintellect.com/series/reading-the-greats/
Excellent, thanks!
Well, now that I’ve said it, I suppose I’ll have to get started on writing some of my thoughts down! I made a substack that I’m planning to use, here: https://cihanbrant.substack.com/
I use goodreads so that I keep updated with what I’m reading – you can see the list of books I plan to read here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/39758788-cihan-brant?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=western-canon
I’m going chronologically, and have just started Shakespeare. I will be sure to join some of the discussions on interintellect!
In addition, I saw your tweet on “A twitch for reading books” – I had this exact idea recently too, with the idea being to share the experience of reading simultaneously with someone, kind of like an accountability thing If you’re in a library, and everyone else is reading, you’re more likely to read than play on your phone. Would be happy to chat about setting something like that up.
Cheers,
Cihan