Let's trace it back

Biking home from work yesterday down Beverly Blvd, close to the Grove. Cruising by the Erowhon Natural Foods Market I see one of its employees on break. I back-pedal and find out that George is reading The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks. Looks very text-booky but he's reading it for fun. The book goes through the history between the 1500s to the 1990s but from a non-American point of view of history as a whole.


He was reading a novel yesterday but he left it at home and happened to have The Origins of the Modern World in his bag. The novel? Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. According to Wikipedia it is a "story of loss and sexuality". He loves Murakami!

George mostly reads novels. One of his favourite books is 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He's read it twice - once in English and another time in Spanish. Growing up he enjoyed reading Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.

If he were to write a book it would be about the D-Day parachuters, namely the one who got lost/seperated from the troops, became AWOL, went to Paris, and fell in love with a girl. He'd love to write about their love story.


What are you reading on your work breaks?

What is your favourite era in history?