Growing weary

[isis]

& when you're not busy sitting there in silence like a knot on a log you could learn about things that don't fall into the category of "esoteric material"...There's so many things to learn.

My SO is constantly flying through books. I feel like there's nothing else he could possibly learn about bc he seems to know it all...& yet he's always finding more books to read.

Here's some of his recent reads:

• The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (Essential Histories) by Efraim Karsh
  
• Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia by Robert Lacey
  
• The Early Islamic Conquests (ACLS Humanities E-Book) by Fred McGraw Donner
  
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
  
• Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present by Christian Sahner
  
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
  
• ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss
  
• The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
  
• A Brief History of the Middle East by Christopher Catherwood
  
• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
  
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
  
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
  
• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw
  
• A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC, 2nd Edition by Marc Van De Mieroop
  
• Mongol Warlords: Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, Hulegu, Tamerlane by David Nicolle
  

...or you could just get drunk everyday & hang out in the B4 chatroom all day. Whatever.

:P