BiblioFiles #101: Personal Density and Breaking Bread with the Dead (What Are We Reading?)

We’re opening 2021 with an episode of “What Are We Reading?” and Adam is in the hot seat. His review of Alan Jacob’s Breaking Bread with the Dead is a timely reminder of the important things at the beginning of a new year marked by uncertainty.

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Referenced Works:

– Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs

– The Year of our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs

– How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs

– The Good Place (NBC), created by Michael Shur

– What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy

– The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter

– Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

– Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

– Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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