Memberjwhenderson

Real Name

James Henderson

About My Library

My library contains books on a wide range of topics, with a focus on literature, philosophy, poetry, music, and historical works. I have books that I saved from my youth, as well as books from the Folio Society, biographies, and translated literature that I have gathered over the years. I concur with Proust when he said that a book could possess "magic as potent as the deepest slumber."

About Me

My upbringing was surrounded by books. I have always been a book collector; our living room had book shelves lined with everything from classics to modern titles. I started doing this as soon as I could read. My varied reading preferences are primarily in the humanities. Through participation in literature classes and discussion groups I am continuing my education. Long ago, I received a BA in economics and an MS in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin. More recently I have been spurred by courses in the Basic Program of Liberal Education at the University of Chicago, Online Great Books, and other book groups.

"The sight of the cover of a book one has previously read retains, woven into the letters of its title, the moonbeams of a far-off summer night." - Marcel Proust --

Location

Chicago, Illinois

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Currently Reading

These Violent Delights: A Novel by Micah Nemerever

Aquinas: Basic Works (The Hackett Aquinas) by Aquinas Thomas

Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Ancius Boethius

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by Darío Fernández-Morera

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury

The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series) by Joyce Carol Oates

Favorite Authors

André Aciman, Aristotle, W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Claude Frédéric Bastiat, Samuel Beckett, Sybille Bedford, Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfred Brendel, Richard Brookhiser, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Lewis Carroll, Winston S. Churchill, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Hart Crane, Guy Davenport, Michael Dirda, John Enright, William Faulkner, Antony Flew, Milton Friedman, Roger Martin du Gard, José Ortega y Gasset, André Gide, Graham Greene, Julien Green, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lars Gustafsson, Knut Hamsun, F. A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Hermann Hesse, Gilbert Highet, Paul Hindemith, Christopher Hitchens, Eric Hoffer, Sidney Hook, Victor Hugo, David Hume, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Ryszard Kapuściński, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rudyard Kipling, Wolfgang Koeppen, Arthur Koestler, Milan Kundera, Pär Lagerkvist, John Locke, John Lukacs, Maurice Maeterlinck, Naguib Mahfouz, Alberto Manguel, Thomas Mann, Simon Mawer, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Czesław Miłosz, Ludwig Von Mises, Michel de Montaigne, James Morrow, Iris Murdoch, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Robert Nozick, Sherwin B. Nuland, George Orwell, Orhan Pamuk, Tim Parks, Walker Percy, David Plante, Alexandre Dumas, pere, Marcel Proust, James Purdy, Raymond Queneau, Mary Renault, Gregor von Rezzori, Romain Rolland, Charles Rosen, Murray Rothbard, James Salter, George Santayana, José Saramago, Simon Schama, Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Sowell, George Steiner, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Storey, Colm Tóibín, A. E. van Vogt, Jules Verne, Paul Watkins, Edith Wharton, Edmund White, Oscar Wilde, Tom Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Stefan Zweig

Local Favorites

Bookstores: 57th Street Books, Booklegger's Used Books, Bookworks, Selected Works Used Books and Sheet Music, The Book Cellar, The Gallery Bookstore

Libraries: Art Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library - Lincoln Park Branch, Newberry Library

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