It’s coming at almost a perfect (and miserable) time. Basically confined to the indoors by the worst air quality I can remember anywhere, anytime (remember that I lived in Los Angeles for thirty years), I am finally getting around to reading a 2015 book that SIL C.S. and I discussed at least a year ago. And I had also come upon a TEDTalk or two by the book’s Israeli historian-philosopher author Yuval Noah Harari.
This has to be one of the most thought-provoking things I have read for a very, very long time. It is keeping me going despite that I feel worse than I have for a very, very long time — sneezing, coughing, running nose, watering eyes, splitting headache. So we continue to stay indoors and run filtered fans in the house where I can read so long as my eyes hold out (and then it is time to turn to stuff like The New Yorker podcast — hope to listen this afternoon to Miranda July reading from her new story — and Fresh Air). Not nearly finished with the book yet, but I know already that it is a definite recommend (hey, I just now see that Amazon sez that it is “A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg”), and have alerted the local library to get me on the waiting list for Harari’s 2017 book, “Homo Deus”.
[rDay 898]