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I listened to 1776<\/a> by David McCullough \u2014 it was excellent. The fact that he can not only write a great story, but also read it in such a compelling fashion was admirable.<\/p>\n

The Kite Runner<\/span><\/a> was also on the reading list. I liked it \u2014 it moved along briskly \u2014 but didn\u2019t love it. For the second time, I tried, and failed to read Eco\u2019s Baudolino<\/span><\/a> \u2014 I just can\u2019t get past about page 150. The same thing happens when I try to read Foucault\u2019s Pendulum<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Finally, I\u2019m alsmost done with a history of Byzantium<\/a>. It\u2019s pretty dry, and it moves along too fast, but it\u2019s good to fill in about 500 years of history that I\u2019m pretty fuzzy on.<\/p>\n

Next in the queue: one hundred years of solititude<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"