Hands on Books
Welcome to Hands on Books! This is a project meant to share my favorite hobby—book collecting. Each episode, I'll open a book (or several) from my ever-growing stack of unopened packages. I particularly love used books that have some character, so I never know exactly what I'll get. We'll discuss topics, authors, and the books themselves, and hopefully pass along some interesting suggestions. If you're a fellow book-lover, I think you'll grasp intuitively the experience I'm trying to share. Happy reading!
Black Easter + Mini-books from Livraria Lello (Ep 32)
Machen | Delany | Saramago | Atwood (Ep 31 re-upload)
Back to the pile (Ep 30)
The White Guard, Bulgakov (Ep 29)
Eight More Books from the Pile (Ep 28)
New Mexico Bookhaul! (Ep 27)
Pre-vacation Bookhaul! (Ep 26)
Crucible of War | The Lions of Al-Rassan | The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane | Mordew (Ep24)
The Alienist | The Dog of the South | Elucidating Tathagatagarbha | The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Doggerland | Brahma Sūtras (Śrī Bhāsya) | Meditation | Phantastes & Lilith (Ep 22)
Beyond the Horizon, the Art of John Harris | Tower of Babylon, Ted Chiang (Ep21)
Selections from Salammbô, by Gustave Flaubert - Part 2 (HoB Ep20)
Selections from Salammbô, by Gustave Flaubert - Part 1 (HoB Ep19)
Three Tales — Flaubert, The Gateless Gate, and Militia Christi — Harnack (HoB Ep18)
L'Ornement Polychrome II, Semitic Magic, 1001 Nights, & A Cavern of Black Ice (HoB Ep 17)
Gustave Moreau, Rabindranath Tagore, and Tales of Nevèrÿon (HoB Ep 16)
Testament of Solomon, A Small Town in Germany, & Out of the Silent Planet (HoB Ep 15)
Bag o' Books! (HoB Ep 14)
The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People, by John le Carré + Jack Vance (HoB Ep 13)
Empires of the Steppes, by Kenneth W. Harl + The Sword of Persia, by Michael Axworthy (HoB Ep12)
The Brave Free Men + The Faceless Man - Jack Vance (HoB Ep11)
The Dhammapada + The Day of the Triffids (Hands on Books Episode 10)
The Religions of Man, by Huston Smith (Hands on Books Episode 9)
On Blue's Waters, by Gene Wolfe (Hands on Books Episode 8)
Julian, by Gore Vidal (Hands on Books Episode 7)
The Gate of Heaven, by Margaret Barker (Hands on Books Episode 6)
Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman (Hands on Books Episode 5)
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (Hands on Books Episode 4)
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, by Gershom Scholem (Hands on Books Episode 3)
A Book Too Far - Hands on Books Ep. 2