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justice_turtleUm, I'm not dead! It's just that The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon is the next book up, and it's 482 pages of nonfiction history from ninety years ago. So I keep having to google things to find out whether Mr van Loon is wrong, or whether my own inadequate history education is wrong, or whether we're both right but the generation gap makes us contradict each other.
It's very exciting, really: it's a time-capsule of a history book! From a year when four different important expeditions that were to change our knowledge of prehistory hadn't come back yet. :D It's just amazingly slow, because I do most of my book-reviewing on the bus, sans Internet.
So. I have about half a dozen readers subscribed here, and maybe some lurkers: please to tell me in comments, would you rather I post the first quarter of the liveblog now and add sections as I go along, or wait till I finish liveblogging the whole book (or get exhausted and decide not to finish it?1)
1: I would really like to finish it, because the next two on the list are Dr Doolittle and the other entry by that master of what on earth did I just read, Charles Boardman Hawes. And it would be sad to partially-liveblog so many books in a row.
It's very exciting, really: it's a time-capsule of a history book! From a year when four different important expeditions that were to change our knowledge of prehistory hadn't come back yet. :D It's just amazingly slow, because I do most of my book-reviewing on the bus, sans Internet.
So. I have about half a dozen readers subscribed here, and maybe some lurkers: please to tell me in comments, would you rather I post the first quarter of the liveblog now and add sections as I go along, or wait till I finish liveblogging the whole book (or get exhausted and decide not to finish it?1)
1: I would really like to finish it, because the next two on the list are Dr Doolittle and the other entry by that master of what on earth did I just read, Charles Boardman Hawes. And it would be sad to partially-liveblog so many books in a row.
