For 23 years I've been anticipating the third volume of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe. I suppose that by now I'm hoping rather than anticipating. I'm sure it will be worth the wait whenever it arrives.
I was listening to this using the audio version. As I have long suspected, I believe the narration is done using AI rather than a human narrator. Speaking about Hamlet, when the narrator got to Act I, she pronounced it Act Eye.  Whenever I hear anything by Matt Taibbi, she pronounces it. Tye bee.
I'm looking forward to several, even as I look warily at the unread books from this year on my unsteady stacks.
Here are five, in no particular order:
1) Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution, by Hadley Arkes (May)
2) The Call of the Tribe, by Mario Vargas Llosa (January)
3) The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin (January)
4) The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, by Jamie Kreiner (January)
5) Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, by Patrick Deneen (June)
For 23 years I've been anticipating the third volume of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe. I suppose that by now I'm hoping rather than anticipating. I'm sure it will be worth the wait whenever it arrives.
Whew! You are ambitious. An excellent list. As for fiction, wife gave me McCarthy's two books, Stella Maris and The Passenger. Likely McCarthy's last.
I was listening to this using the audio version. As I have long suspected, I believe the narration is done using AI rather than a human narrator. Speaking about Hamlet, when the narrator got to Act I, she pronounced it Act Eye.  Whenever I hear anything by Matt Taibbi, she pronounces it. Tye bee.
Those 2023 books look excellent. I’ve just preordered a few.