Winter Reading
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| Sam not reading. |
Of physical book reading, I just finished Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. If you like historical fiction, you’ll find Bernard Cornwell to be one of the best. His work is extremely well researched and the stories are captivating. The Sharpe’s series was about the only thing of his I hadn’t read, because our library doesn’t have the entire series, including this one which is the first book. But Dan got it for me for Christmas, and I’m hooked.
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge is an extremely interesting book in two more categories I like: culture studies and agrarianism. The author spent a number of years in rural northern India as a linguist, experiencing their culture and witnessing the influence of encroaching global industrialism. While most of the world sees this influence as necessary and positive, the author saw the gradual destruction of a healthy, self-sustaining eco-community being pushed into dependency on modern consumerism. It impacts not only their so-called “standard of living” but also their mental, physical health, and cultural health, and not for the better. Her message is that we need to heed and preserve the benefits of such ancient socioeconomic systems.
Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2025/01/winter-reading.html
