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The Vanishing Tower
Author: Michael MoorcockFinished: 2024-04-15
Started: 2023-01
Status: Read
This one was a bit more of a slog than the other Elric I’ve read so far, but I do have pleasant memories of reading it on my phone in the back of an eight-person van carting two families around Tokyo in the earliest months of our arrival there.
The World Before Us
Author: Tom HighamFinished: 2024-03
Started: 2024-02
Status: Read
Some exhilarating moments of truly being able to imagine the deep history of humanity, especially the simultaneous existence of distinct human species. In particular, I was dizzied by the colliding of history and prehistory in the story of Eugene Dubois who was working in Indonesia to discover human species from millions to hundreds of thousands of years ago, but whose work was interrupted by the Japanese occupation in World War II.