Bookshelf
Posted at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, in Reading.
These are the next four books that I hope to read this year, assuming a normal and steady reading schedule (that is, daily commute by train)…
- The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson;
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond;
- 1776 by David McCullough; and
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.
I’m not sure in what order they will be read. I will leave that decision for the pagan gods that I’ve entrusted the sanctity of my life, home and family (and the order in which I read books), the sun and moon and shit. And the Eucalyptus trees, the non-native species being forced from their homes rooted all across California because they are not deemed good enough, an argument I fail to embrace.
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