What are you reading: May 12, 2018

Here's what I am reading.  Feel free to comment with what you are reading.

• Started this week
• Death in Brittany by Jörg Bong.  A mystery. I am on p. 25.
• Word by Word: The Hidden Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper. I am on p. 77.
• In progress this week
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg. I am on p. 24.  
• Significant Figures by Ian Stewart. Brief biographies of famous mathematicians. I am on p. 89.
• The Machiavellian Moment by J. G. A. Pocock. I am on p. 9. Multidisciplinary social science/history.  This is going to be a slow read. 
• This Idea is Brilliant edited by John Brockman.  Short essays on a wide range of ideas by experts. I am on p. 127.
• A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. This is a very good history of the subject, well written and clear.  Kenny follows an unusual strategy in that he takes two approaches: He first covers each era in a more-or-less chronological order, then he looks at the big topics of that era in a systematic way.  I am on p. 605, in the Enlightenment.
• The Drawing of Trump and its Postponement by Fred L. Karpin.  I am on p. 53. A classic on the play of the hand in bridge. 
• On hold this week (books started but put aside, without prejudice)
•  Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker. Why the Enlightenment is still important, why life is still good.  I am on p. 55.
• Finished this week

• Scrivener for Dummies.  Scrivener is a tool for writers.