Millennium

Felipe Fernández-Armesto's Millennium arrived in the mail today (via an Ebay auction). I first discovered this historian whilst at the State Library, looking for something glossy to rest my text-weary eyes on. I found Fernández-Armesto's Ideas That Changed The World, published by the masters of glossy, well-designed non-fiction, Dorling Kindersley. Each page of Ideas That Changed The World focuses on... umm... an idea that changed the world - from socialism to cultural relativism, from liberalism to the idea of god, from relativity to... you get the idea. I became so absorbed that I had to head immediately to a bookshop to buy my own copy, which now sits by my bedside - and I try to read a page or two before lights-out - it's something for the brain to chew on whilst I doze off, instead of dwelling on useless things like frustrations with work colleagues or how little money we have. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing Fernández-Armesto stretch out, unrestricted by a page-per-idea.