Jun

6

books read on recent tour of California, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong with Aubrey and his good friend:

Singapore: A Biography, by Mark Ravinder Frost and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

The Trees in My Forest, by Bernd Heinrich

The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, by Paul Johnson

And for music: La Divina - the Best of Maria Callas Compilation

Also, a great book about 200 years of peace and harmony in Japan, The Fantastic Edo Era, but a completely opposite take by Paul Johnson in The Birth of the Modern.

also one terrible book, Every Man a Speculator, by Steve Fraser. the author hates speculation in all forms and writes 800 pages of selected anecdotes with thousands of footnotes to support his biased and hateful review.

Gavan Tredoux comments:

Paul Johnson is not a careful writer, makes too many factual mistakes, often accepts received wisdom uncritically. He writes well, as a journalist would, but I wouldn't trust anything he produced.

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