Euan Lawson
May 2024 reading
Philosophical.
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
- Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas
- Lord Foul’s Bane: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One by Stephen Donaldson
- The Illearth War: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book Two by Stephen Donaldson
- The Power That Preserves: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book Three by Stephen Donaldson
Notes
It’s my second go around with Four Thousand Weeks and it’s well worth it. There is some classic productivity advice here but it’s leaning more towards being a popular, accessible philosophy book than a self-help.
Limitarianism and Another England are both excellent but I found The Coming Wave tedious. I then went on a little nostalgia trip and got through three fairly decent sized novels written a few decades ago - the first three Thomas Covenant books. I read them back at the tail end of the 80s when I was still in my teens. The arcane vocabulary is verging on parody at times and the central protagonist is deeply unlikeable for all sorts of reasons. These are definitely not for everyone.