I have read 88 books this year, which is a new record for me. But, sadly, I’ll have to dial it back….starting from this month.
Having noticed we are overspending, some excess needs to be stopped. The good news is that at the end of this month, things are looking much better, so the spending cuts have helped. But we bought a lot of books in 2025, so I’ll have to cut back on the books.
This is enormously painful to me, but having read the economics book this month, one does what one has to do in order to keep within the constraints of the budget.

Gerusalemme liberata- Torquato Tasso  (1581) 
This month I covered from canto 10 to 20.  This is a long and very complex story with a ton of characters. The long and short of it is: the crusaders came to liberate Jerusalem, they do so with heaven’s help, the end. 

Basic Economics- Thomas Sowell  (2015) 
Written for the lay person without any prior knowledge of economics. I spent all month not only reading this book, but taking notes. It too is far too complex to fully recap in a brief summary, but it covers the basics of economics…. which is right in the title. Economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses. Beginning with scarcity, supply and demand, it covers how prices move towards an equilibrium, how the market (which is all of us making our combined choices) determines how scarce resources are most efficiently allocated towards what we want, and how systems need to be judged not on the proclaimed goals, but on what they incentivize and actually achieve. 

The Bible
I read the Bible all the way through, once a year. I’ll mark it down here since I finished it this month, even though I’ve been reading it all year.