The Sunday Special: A reading diary
With apologies to Ted Gioia and Louis L’Amour
Over at his Substack, The Honest Broker, jazz journalist Ted Gioia recently laid out how as a young man he designed his own self-education by diving into classical literature. And not just fiction, either.
(This is at least the second of my own columns inspired by Gioia’s always thoughtful writing. If you haven’t check him out yet, I highly encourage you to take a look.)
My own reading path was neither as organized nor as disciplined as Gioia’s.
But there is some similarity: I have tracked every book I’ve read since college.
And I post them online. Not always in a timely manner, mind you — I’ve a couple World War II histories (a look at the Battle of the Bulge, and a memoir by a veteran of the RAF Bomber Command) I’ve read over the past few months, but not yet posted. And I just cracked a recent biography of baseball great Satchel Paige.
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