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Everything I need to know about __ I learned from Monty Python" by Brian Cogen. The Monty Python crew weren't just funny, they were very smart and knowledgeable (the five English members all went to Oxford or Cambridge) and they used that in their skits. This book shows how. But I need to watch more of the Python episodes to fully appreciate this.
Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein. Plato comes back to life. He's written some books and he's doing things. Stop 1 is the Googleplex, home of Google. Goldstein interweaves stories of Plato at various places with writing about why philosophy matters. Wonderful
Dialogues of Plato ; Plato wrote really well. I decided to re-read. I'm amazed that Socrates made it to 70.
The Bat by Jo Nesbo. The first in the Inspector Harry Hole series, this one finds the Norwegian policeman in Australia, investigating the death of a Norwegian woman. Or more than one. Very good.
The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour. I am only a few pages into this one, but it has grabbed my interest. Gilmour has not written a traditional history of Italy (although it is partly that) rather, he is in pursuit of Italy - how it became a country, what it means to be Italian and so on.
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