Month 44 of 260 (16.92 percent)
Size of list: 89,337 pages (14.86 percent above start)
Pages read: 22,646 (25.35 percent)
H-list: 6,333/23,472 (26.98 percent)
N-list: 8,475/36,960 (22.93 percent)
O-list: 7,838/28,905 (27.12 percent)
Finished: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Reading: Golden Fool
The only book I finished reading was the non-fiction The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, which is basically a book-length news magazine article. For hundreds of years, Timbuktu, in what is now northern Mali, was a center of learning, but the tides of conservative Islamic thought rose and fell, and the books needed to be hidden. Often they were hidden away in trunks that went unopened for decades, even while bugs ate away at the books inside. This book is the story of an effort to obtain, restore and preserve the books while the tide was out, but then to protect them when the tide came in again. I read the Kindle version, so may have missed maps and photos which would have made the story easier to follow. I'm glad the heroes in this book exist; I'm not so sure about reading this story in this form.
The only book I finished reading was the non-fiction The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, which is basically a book-length news magazine article. For hundreds of years, Timbuktu, in what is now northern Mali, was a center of learning, but the tides of conservative Islamic thought rose and fell, and the books needed to be hidden. Often they were hidden away in trunks that went unopened for decades, even while bugs ate away at the books inside. This book is the story of an effort to obtain, restore and preserve the books while the tide was out, but then to protect them when the tide came in again. I read the Kindle version, so may have missed maps and photos which would have made the story easier to follow. I'm glad the heroes in this book exist; I'm not so sure about reading this story in this form.
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