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auntiemeeshWent to the bookstore today. So much fun! I made a swift tour through the scifi section, just long enough to pick up Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I'm about three or four pages in and already loving it muchly.
My other two purchases were prompted by the fear that my brain has suffered permanent damage from lack of use the past ten years working in child care and not stimulating it with anything even vaguely intellectual. So I headed for the non-fiction department and had a lovely browse through the anthropology section (one shelf, approx. six books - it's a smallish bookstore). I was very, very tempted to buy Popol Vuh, but decided to hold off for the moment. It's definitely on my 'want it lots' list, though. Next I found a book called Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and our Common Origins, by Steve Olson. It looks quite fascinating; he uses not only archeological and linguistic but genetic evidence to trace human evolution and migration for the past 150,000 years. I've always been fascinated by the study of human evolution (both cultural and physical) but this is the first time I've encountered someone using genetics to tell us where and when humans lived, how they interacted, etc.
The last book I picked up is Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist. Physics is one of those things that made my brain hurt in high school, but that has a beauty about it that appeals to me when it's presented as ideas without the equations and math that I can't do to save my life.
So now I have the dual benefits of several good books to read and the opportunity to stretch my mental muscles a little bit.
I also ordered Buffy season one because, well, just because. *grins*
My other two purchases were prompted by the fear that my brain has suffered permanent damage from lack of use the past ten years working in child care and not stimulating it with anything even vaguely intellectual. So I headed for the non-fiction department and had a lovely browse through the anthropology section (one shelf, approx. six books - it's a smallish bookstore). I was very, very tempted to buy Popol Vuh, but decided to hold off for the moment. It's definitely on my 'want it lots' list, though. Next I found a book called Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and our Common Origins, by Steve Olson. It looks quite fascinating; he uses not only archeological and linguistic but genetic evidence to trace human evolution and migration for the past 150,000 years. I've always been fascinated by the study of human evolution (both cultural and physical) but this is the first time I've encountered someone using genetics to tell us where and when humans lived, how they interacted, etc.
The last book I picked up is Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist. Physics is one of those things that made my brain hurt in high school, but that has a beauty about it that appeals to me when it's presented as ideas without the equations and math that I can't do to save my life.
So now I have the dual benefits of several good books to read and the opportunity to stretch my mental muscles a little bit.
I also ordered Buffy season one because, well, just because. *grins*
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