December 23, 2012
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Week 52: Humanity
I’m reading a book titled Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century… which sounds really boring, but has actually been surprisingly enlightening. For someone who doesn’t know (or rather, retain) much regarding history, it’s been pretty educational.
Every time I look at the cover of this book and recall the title, my brain tries to run away. But when I force myself to sit down and open the page to my bookmark, I always enjoy it, to my surprise.
I admit, like most of the “educational” non-fiction books I read, it is extremely repetitive. Bugs the heck out of me. But I’m taking this book in such small doses because of the revulsion the title gives me that it actually hasn’t bothered me that much, even though I can recognize practically whole paragraphs that are pretty much just repeated. -.-;;
It’s taking me a long long time to get through this, given the way I’m hacking away at it. But I’m hopeful that it’ll move past WWII soon and touch on other topics.
