It's the final day of March and the time has come for another list if the books I've read since the posting of my last monthly reading list.
The first in the list is The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer. I first learned of the book and the story it told was from my reading of Richard Dawkins' book, The God Delusion. Kertzer's book tells the true story of the the Vatican's kidnapping seizure of a six-year-old boy from his Jewish family in Bologna, Italy, on the basis of the family's former servant's testimony that she had secretly baptized the boy as an infant.
Prefecture D is a collection of novellas by Hideo Yokoyama dealing with the internal politics of a large metropolitan in Japan.
In The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz continues Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was the basis for and written in tandem with Fritz Lang's 1927 film of the same name. Oddly enough, reading the novel makes the film more understandable....and vice versa. Each one helps the other.
In Just Babies, psychologist Paul Bloom explores our innate sense of morality.
For my thoughts on Highsmith's novel, check out my earlier blog post.
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil by Paul Bloom
Strangers in a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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