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Giovanni's Books by Status

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The Music of Richard Wagner
The Rest Is Noise
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Being Wagner
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Henry Clay: The Essential American
Martin Van Buren

Giovanni's Reading Goals

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43/53 books
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2025 Reading Goal

Read 53 books by . You're 12 books ahead of schedule. 🙌

Giovanni's Most Popular Reviews

I have occasionally thought, while reading, that my time would have been better spent on another non-fiction book about the middle ages, but eventually liked the way human and ‘small' events came to focus together with ‘big' historical events.

Need to get around some sexism, some platitudes, some classism, and some entitled nonsense, but I liked the ‘taxonomy' of sources of unhappiness. Light on the solutions... but let's be fair, was I really expecting to find a recipe for happiness in this book?

Series of lectures. 2, 4, and 5 were the most interesting to me.