Books

2024 reading recap:

100 solo
24 with my 6yo
6 with my 4yo
2 with both

Highlights:

Basic Economics 
The Godfather
The Ancient City
Twain’s travel books
The Golden Bough

Lowlights:
The Inimitable Jeeves
Nausea
The Aeneid
The Bible 
Wuthering Heights

Full lists below 👇

Just finished The Scapegoat - think you'd enjoy if you haven't already.

Thank you for the recommendation

What books are comparable? Or, what’s the elevator pitch?

The Golden Bough - Girard argues that Frazer misses the importance of the scapegoat: a critical mechanism to understand violence and memetic rivalry in humans. See also Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the  World (Girard, 1978).