From the (Library e-)Bookshelf: The Dawn of Everything

It’s been long enough since I first noticed a book named The Dawn of Everything that I don’t quite remember how it happened. However it did, once I’d looked at the descriptions of “a new history of humanity” from David Graeber, activist and public intellectual, and David Wengrow, professor of comparative archaeology, the book did appear interesting. More than that, when I checked my first option I found it was available through my city library’s ebook lending service. Enough other people must have heard about the book, though, that I saw it would first be available for me to borrow in several months. I tried to mentally brace myself and put a hold in, checking the lending application every so often with the impression the time until borrowing was going down a little faster than “every person in the queue keeps the book for the maximum possible time” might imply. At last, I had my chance to sign out the book. With the scope of time a history of humanity can cover, a few months’ wait to read it might not seem that long after all.
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