Spring reading

I am settling back into Boorstin's The Seekers. So far it has been an illuminating overview of the origins of our great thinkers and great ideas of the Western world. All those concepts we just take for granted - the structure of our universities, the roots of the ways we think and believe. How much we owe all those 'dead white guys.'

I have been intrigued with philosophy for some time - I don't know much about it, it sounds abstract and dry (a negative) but I know that I like to see the big picture - to understand the background of things, and see how they all fit together - (a plus). So this book should provide me with a frame of reference and spark to explore some more.

Borders has their spring educators appreciation weekend, and a stack of books followed me home. I had the sense this time to go with a specific list - which helped.

I finished Teacher Man about two weeks ago. It was a startling find at Bookaholic - it has only been out a few months (still in hardback) and I picked it up for about 6.50. Anyway he is a good storyteller, that is his strength, not necessarily a great writer. In this his third book his self-deprecation was starting to get annoying though (you made it, you are a Pulitzer Prize winning best-selling author, OK, Frank?)