Here’s what I’m reading now.
George Orwell’s 1984. Re-reading it after many years, but mostly because I read The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 this summer.
Delio Pereira de Souza’s Homanarismo: La Interna Ideo. (Esperanto Wikipedia page about the book.) A “modest commentary” of the religious philosophy of L. L. Zamenhof, the “author” of the planned language Esperanto. The work is in Esperanto, and so even though it’s short this is going to take me some time. It’s also from a Spiritist (English Wikipedia) press, so I’ll have to watch out for that viewpoint. Here’s an English Wikipedia article on the subject: “Homanarismo.”
Stuart Rutherford, Jonathan Morduch, Orlanda Ruthven, and Daryl Collins’s Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. While old (2009) I wanted to catch up on the concepts that distinguish microlending from microfinance, and look at the strategies that the world’s poorest people use in their financial lives before making more finance-based charitable giving.
