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todayiamadaisyVery flat. Putting together an application for a job as a Finance Manager with a not-for-profit, very much my wheelhouse, but what's the point? Really. Possibly feeling like this because I heard about a friend, or rather, the daughter of one of my mother's friends, but someone about my age who I have known for a long time. Anyway, she was a lawyer last I heard, but she has left law to become a bespoke woodworker, making rough-hewn tables and such. (I looked at her website; she's really good.) Perhaps I should become a bespoke woodworker.
I don't really like splinters though.
August book read
* The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan (2015) ★ ★ ★ ★
Despite the subtitle, this isn't a history of the whole world, but rather of the Middle East and central Asia, beginning with Alexander the Great and ending (the last third of the book) with a detailed explanation of the last forty years in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. It's a very accessible work, long and detailed but good at streamlining complex events and consequences. Maybe too good: even allowing for the subtitle's overstatement, this is a world history in which China and India are curiously absent and continents other than Asia, Europe and North America don't exist. Frustrating but worthwhile.
(On a side note: It has more mentions of rhubarb (two!) than I would have guessed.)
I don't really like splinters though.
August book read
* The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan (2015) ★ ★ ★ ★
Despite the subtitle, this isn't a history of the whole world, but rather of the Middle East and central Asia, beginning with Alexander the Great and ending (the last third of the book) with a detailed explanation of the last forty years in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. It's a very accessible work, long and detailed but good at streamlining complex events and consequences. Maybe too good: even allowing for the subtitle's overstatement, this is a world history in which China and India are curiously absent and continents other than Asia, Europe and North America don't exist. Frustrating but worthwhile.
(On a side note: It has more mentions of rhubarb (two!) than I would have guessed.)