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• RIP Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
• Crime Novel Excerpts: In the Woods, by Tana French
• Deciding is Exhausting
• What's Blooming Now
• What I'm Reading Lately: Death, Dog Poisoning,...
• In the Name of Science
• Not Many Dead - Volume II
• Noose Watch
• The Mechanism
• Taking A Life

Watched this week:

• one House MD episode (re-run)
• some episodes of House Hunters

Reading this week:

• starting In the Woods (2007) by Tana French, her debut police procedural/psychological thriller set near Dublin
• starting Jacques Barzun's 800-page From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (2000)
• finished Charles Tilly's Why? and will blog on it soon.
• finished The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, which is hilarious, and starting her Love in a Cold Climate
• finished Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts

Ongoing reading:

• James Alison's Undergoing God: Dispatches from the Scene of a Break-In (2006) and On Being Liked (2003)
• Violence Renounced: Rene Girard, Biblical Studies, and Peacemaking (2000) by Willard M. Swartley