Currently Reading
Posted at 2:27 pm on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Reading, and tagged america, columbus, vonnegut.
Looking through my bookshelf, I’ve discovered all I have left really are heady books.1 I’ve been purchasing books at a quicker pace the last few months on Amazon to build up some sort of a backlog, and none of them are “quick reads” so to speak.
I have always had an interest in what happened in the New World — long before it was known as America, and later, Columbia — and this book should at least whet my appetite: 1491 by Charles Mann…2
- Or what I’ll call “heady,” since the definition is anything but settled, or uniform. That being said, I could always pull a Vonnegut off the shelf to give my brain some rest for a week. ↩
- I accidentally purchased this book twice. When I couldn’t find it on my shelf a few weeks ago, I checked my Amazon history and it wasn’t there, so I ordered it (again). I found the second, original copy last night. It turns out I had purchased the book under my wife’s account to get her over the free shipping threshold. The book is now a gift in-waiting. ↩
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