The Book Pirate

Friday and Saturday nights are, in my house, time for the three of us (four, counting the cat) to gather in our family room and spend the evening doing a variety of things. Our daughter works on her latest drawings; I read (right now, Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything); my husband plays on the computer or watches sports. More often than not, though, we're watching episodes of Star Trek: Voyager or Next Generation. Yep, we're all geeks.

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on Short History when you finish it.

I'll let you know. My aunt finished it last weekend; here's her comment:

I'm just about finished reading Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING & have just loved it. It's fascinating & humourous as well. But not for those who are wedded to Genesis. This is one of my favorite things:

"Darwin kept his theory to himself because he well knew the storm it would cause. In 1844, a book called VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION roused much of the thinking world to fury by suggesting that humans might have evolved from lesser primates without the assistance of a divine creator. Anticipating the outcry, the author had taken careful steps to conceal his identity, which he kept secret from even his closest friends. Some wondered if Darwin himself might be the author. ... In fact, the author was a successful & generally unassuming Scottish publisher named Robert Chambers whose reluctance to reveal himself had a practical dimension as well as a personal one: his firm was a leading publisher of Bibles". Is that rich or what?

I hope you all love that as much as I did.

Sitting at the kitchen table, telling ghost stories. And reading. :)

Nice...My Saturday night is being spent in bed reading The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You by Harry Harrison. Looks like I'm on the same step as you on the social ladder. Oh well, I'm happy :p