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lindi

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Reading interests: nonfiction, fiction, young adult literature, classics.

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Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens A brief Story of Human Kind (2011, Harper) 4 stars

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Harper Perennial

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2015 by HarperCollins …

Just finished Listening to this audio book. I found it so, so fascinating. I love how the author pulls from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy and more to explain how humans have adapted and changed as a species. While it draws from a lot of academic disciplines, it is not written at an inaccessible level. It's for regular people to learn and enjoy. It moves quickly and is never boring. So much to learn!

Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner: The Journey to the East (2003, Picador) 3 stars

I haven't read a book like this. I knew nothing about the book before I started reading it and it was quite a literary journey. It's part fantasy, part fiction, part nonfiction, spiritual ... just a lot of different things. It was interesting. Not a book that will pull you in for a very involved plot, but it pulled me in for other reasons.