A good book is one that convinces you to cast aside all other responsibilities.
Like doing dishes and smashing around a squash ball.
But generally a book that generates this kind of atmosphere for me is a work of fiction.
And it certainly isn’t scientific.
I’m happy to report that for possibly the first time ever I have encountered a book I simply can’t put down. And it’s a scientific work of non-fiction!
Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” was published in 2003 and oh, how it is changing my life.
I would have never conceived rapture over nucleotides and chemical reactions. My Biology 12 high school instructor would click his heels to read that sentence.
Haven’t read it? Go to the library and do!
There’s few things more satisfying than to suddenly feel able to discuss the origins of life with wit!
~ c
