My 2025 reading == my October-December reading, as I lost focus for the first 9 months of 2025. But now that I'm dedicated again 2026 will be a lot more books!
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Just finishing Fredric Bachman’s latest “My Friends”. A bit long, but a good book. Now on to Bruce Holsinger’s “Culpability”.
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[…] inclusion in a full and revised edition at some point in the future. In the introduction, he wrote: "The decisive factor dominating the morality of the crowd has not yet been clearly identified. One point of interest is the emergence in situ of a particular ethical fluctuation separate from the moral standards of the individuals who constitute the crowd. Certain crowds do not blench at the prospect of looting, murder and rape, while on the other hand, others display a level of courage and altruism which those making up that same crowd would have had difficulty in achieving as individuals. The author argues that, rather than this latter type of crowd being made up of especially noble individuals, that nobility which is a fundamental human attribute is able to manifest itself through borrowing strength from the crowd; also, similarly, that the former case is one in which humanity’s essential barbarism is exacerbated not by the especially barbaric nature of any of the individuals involved, but through that magnification which occurs naturally in crowds." The censors had scored through four lines in the paragraph which followed that one. "Bearing that in mind, the question which remains to us is this: what is humanity? What do we have to do to keep humanity as one thing and not another?" Eun-sook could remember the precise thickness […]

Human Acts (Han Kang)

Not even halfway through yet and this book is blowing my mind. A brilliant translation by Deborah Smith makes it an easy read in the linguistic sense, but emotionally it's challenging. (1/2)

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