Seems I haven't posted in a month. Sorry. I've been busy writing - and unwriting - a book. Suffice to say there's been no news worth knowing. But, as it is the first, the monthly list:
Books:
Maffesoli, Michel: The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society
Díaz, Junot: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Lockhart, John Gibson: Adam Blair
Oliphant, Margaret: Phoebe, Junior
Cheyne, A.C.: The Transforming of the Kirk: Victorian Scotland's Religious Revolution
White, Antonia: Strangers
Oliphant, Margaret: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: The Complete Text (Ed. Elisabeth Jay)
Caird, Edward: The Evolution of Religion, Vol. II
Oliphant, Margaret: Thomas Chalmers: Preacher, Philosopher and Statesman
Woolf, Virginia: Three Guineas
Trollope, Anthony: Framley Parsonage
Gaitskill, Mary: Veronica
Trollope, Anthony: The Warden
Hardy, Thomas: Wessex Tales
Oliphant, Margaret: A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen
Trollope, Anthony: Barchester Towers
Jansson, Tove: Fair Play
Trollope, Anthony: Doctor Thorne
Chalmers, Thomas: Problems of Poverty
Caird, John: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Oliphant, Margaret: Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Oliphant, Margaret: The Land of Darkness: Along with some Further Chapters in the Experiences of the Little Pilgrim
Scarry, Elaine: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Burnside, John: Glister
Oliphant, Margaret: Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Brown, George Mackay: Greenvoe
White, Antonia: Frost in May
Benjamin, Walter: The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Taylor, Charles: A Secular Age
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Baker, Robert: The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy
Woolf, Virginia: Orlando: A Biography
Bataille, Georges: Theory of Religion
Brown, George Mackay: Magnus
Kierkegaard, Søren: Philosophical Fragments, or A Fragment of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dibutandum est
DVDs:
The Golden Compass - Chris Weitz
Lady Chatterley - Pascale Ferran
Six Feet Under: Season 1 - Assorted
The Namesake - Mira Nair
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus - Steven Shainberg
The Two Towers: Extended Edition - Peter Jackson
I do, for the record, still read here on a regular basis; I just honestly haven't had anything interesting happen to me in a good long while, or even any particularly interesting thoughts about the nothing.