Books
They are my main engagement when not deep in work.
Books read before beginning the PhD program and fondly remembered:
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
- Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
- Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk by Lu Xun
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Major books read after beginning the PhD program:
- Derech HaShem by R’Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
- Mesilas Yesharim by R’Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
- Michtav MeEliyahu: The Selected Writings of R’Eliyahu Dessler translated by Aryeh Carmel
- Think Jewish by R’Zalman I. Posner
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis
- The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin
- Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture by Kevin Nute
- Light in Japanese Architecture by Henry Plummer
Major books with varying degrees of progress in reading:
- Chavos HaLevavos by R’Bachya Ibn Pakuda
- Kuzari by R’Yehuda HaLevi
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haven’t read any of the books above – i love fiction, which you so hate. =) but the above books sound seem so interesting, and i enjoy the way you so cherish your cultural identity. i might try to get my hands on one of them. cheers!
If you’re into Victorian era fiction, Charlotte Bronte is a must. She was a master, particularly also in weaving complex female characters. There’s also George Eliot, with her formidable “Middlemarch”. Have learnt much from these works on the Victorian social structure too. :-) As for wittiness, am finding it hard to find one on par with Lu Xun’s fictional short stories… :-)
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