TV Turnoff Week Book Swap

My friend Another Dem on the Drinking Liberally in Cincinnati blog posted about next week being TV Turnoff Week. As a fun way of observing the week, I propose that we meet at lunch on Monday and exchange books to read during the week. On Friday, we could meet again at lunch or after work to discuss what we read.

Are you game?

Nia's Book #10: This one makes up for the audio book

For book club #1, I read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It was quite long, but quite good.

Due to an overload of other work, it took me forever to read this thing, but during the times that I had available, I was thoroughly engrossed. Granted, I was a little annoyed at the information that was presented as requiring extensive research, since I knew a lot about Vlad Dracula from a vampire phase I went through in my younger days. Although, I was rather surprised to learn that, in the end, he was just an evil librarian.

Sometimes, the style got a little convoluted, because it was presented largely in the form of letters and notes from the 3 main historians involved. After a while, it got hard for me to keep track of who was going through some bizarre research-related ordeal. I guess it is in the style of the original Dracula, but I didn't really like that book. It revealed the details in the right way, but it still could have been done a little bit more coherantly.

All in all, I really liked the book, it was very interesting.