heidi chronicles: A dozen in the wings

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A dozen in the wings

This summer, I have a great contract in Roanoke. That is good news for my family and me, but bad news for my reading list. I have been carrying around The Girl Who Kicked A Hornet's Nest for weeks now, but still haven't read much of it.

Once it is finished, though, I have a list of books just waiting to be purchased:

So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Fun With Problems by Robert Stone
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
What Happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Sizzlin' Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Far From Kinsington by Muriel Spark

1. Loyalty.
2. Forbearance: self-control towards others.
3. Hardihood.
4. Generosity: not just a simple matter of giving away what one has, but "Largitas in a man caused him to set no store on greed or gifts, and to have nothing but contempt for bribes."
5. Benevolence. The Davidic ethic: It is the strongest quality of the preudomme - benevolence of the strong toward the weak.
6. Honor: honor is achieved by living up to the ideal of the preudomme and pursuing the qualities and behavior listed above.

7. Championship: everywhere and always be the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.

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