I’m in the mid­dle of three books right now:

• The Oxford Illus­trated His­tory of Britain. Excel­lent, not dry at all, with details that add, not distract
• Fron­tiers of Com­plex­ity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World. I imag­ine I will never fin­ish this book, mostly because of it’s sheer com­plex­ity. Every­time I read a por­tion I get some­thing new from it. Let’s just say there’s a lot of the­o­ret­i­cal math­e­mat­ics involved.
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco. Wow… I just started this last night and read it until I passed out, nose to page. The syn­tax is dif­fer­ent, and it is obvi­ously a trans­la­tion, but still so rich and per­sonal. I am involved already.

Guardian Unlim­ited Books The digested read

I hate the Reader’s Digest ver­sions, but some­how I think this is pretty slick. Enjoy, as I did.