I am just about finished with The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. I realize this book is dated (in terms of Internet and globalization) but he sounds oddly and childishly fascinated with rather mundane tasks such as e-mail and where all the different parts of his laptop comes from. I just think he had his mind made up about several issues before he researched them, and spends the rest of the time of the book trying to convince himself that he's right. I'm on the last chapter, and it's worth finishing just because it's a long book.

I'm also reading This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person, editied by Michael D. Bush. This is a collection of eulogies and sermons given in light of death's of young people. A very close friend of mine passed away just before Christmas, and a family friend gave me this book.

Up Next: The Second World by Parag Khanna and I've been meaning to reread Shakespeare's Hamlet.