Well, I am back again, (this time a week early due to Brecht's generosity and my own conflation of dates), and I'm again doing something a little different. In fact, for me, this project was something completely different, (please read that in full Monty Python style), a review of a book on human history and development. I've never posted such a work before, or intentionally wrote one not for school but to blog about here on DailyKos and what other scattered sites I sometimes put stuff on. It's something different, and I'm again pushing the envelope of Brecht's project, but in a good way I think. Increasingly large numbers of non-fiction books are being published, and readers seem to flock more and more to non-fiction for some reason (it's an American cultural facet), so I think discussing "scholarly" books, and non-fiction books has a big place in any book group, while these works carry ever-greater weight and influence.
Now, excuse the following review. It is, in a style after my own mind and personality, bursting out of its seams. Rereading it assuaged me a little more that the narrative of the essay flows in a logical manner, but there are still my trademark digressions, and I choose to abandon the more academic tone I would normally write something like this with, in favor of a more engaged one, as I thought that's the best way to deal not only with this work, but the medium I intended to speak about this work through (internet and DailyKos). I hope what follows is both entertaining and informative.