Shop the Shelf Update #8 - No More RomComs (Ep. 38)

In which John reaches a new low... in the number of books he has left to read, and decides that, for him, maybe Shakespeare isn't all he's cracked up to be. Note: this was filmed in August, so references to the middle of September were still well in the future. Books and Authors in this episode: The Taming of the Shrew / Twelfth Night / As You Like It / A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A Social History of Greece and Rome by Michael Grant Conquering Jerusalem by Stephen Dando-Collins For the Freedom of Zion by Guy MacLean Rogers The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Regime Change / Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen Thomas Aquinas Saint Augustine of Hippo Alexis de Tocqueville The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr H. Richard Niebuhr Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton The Reading Life by CS Lewis