This past week I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Every year I try to re-read this as a sort of palate cleanser. It’s been talked about and discussed by basically anyone who’s dipped their toes into stoic philosophy (or philosophy in general). You can open it up to whatever page and find take-aways that are still relevant.
- “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.”
Next up is a fantasy novel - Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Recommended from my buddy who’s in a “book club” with one other friend (have no clue what it’s about).
Thank you kindly for reading ,
- mike
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Books of 2024
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy - 1.5.24
Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - 1.10.24
Mastery by Robert Greene (audio) - 1.12.24
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles - 1.12.24
Is God Real? by Lee Strobel - 1.14.24
Tennyson’s Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1.18.24
Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 1.20.24
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey - 1.25.24
The Trial by Franz Kafka - 2.2.24
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - 2.8.24
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2.29.24
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - 3.8.24
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - 4.11.24