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A Woman of Egypt
By: Jehan el Sadat
Publisher: Pocket (15 July 1990)
ISBN: 0671729969

The widow of former Egyptian Presiden Anwar Sadat wrote a compelling auto-biography detailing her life before, with, and after Sadat’s assassination. She is a strong, assertive woman and an advocate for women’s rights in Egypt and the greater Middle East. I read this book years ago and just swiped it off my dad’s shelves during my weekend visit in order to check it out again. I remember it being a moving and inspirational story. I’m not generally into those, so I’m not sure why I remember it so fondly, but I do.


Elementary Logic Revised Edition
By: Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher: Harvard University Press (16 February 2005)
ISBN: 0674244516

The opposite of the “Introduction to Epistemology” below, this one jumps into excruciatingly complex language right off the bat, and the author seems to delight in using obscure or proaisic examples, further complicating the matter.

It is a book • It is educational • (I am reading slowly • I am reading the book)
~ I have complaints
~ (~ it is confusing • ~ it is fun)

I probably screwed that up, but I’m trying here!

STILL READING SINCE LAST TIME

The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
By: Hernando de Soto and June Abbott

Still going strong on this one.


Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction
By: Robert Audi

Slower going lately as I haven’t been reliably doing my morning reading.

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