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Sooo disappointed by this book 😭 I loved 1491 so I was hoping to love this too, but despite all the extremely interesting historical research, he does not have the range to discuss globalization… like this book DRIPS with neoliberal ideology. To him, the terms of the debate are free trade or no trade (fair trade is not an option) so naturally the answer is free trade (that is, capitalism) because people gotta have their commodities, of course 😒

A great read- I love how Charles Mann talks about people you don‘t normally read about, and I love reading about his travels for his research.

For some reason, this reminds me of that part in The Last Kingdom when Alfred the Great and was fleeing the Vikings with his family.

Why I want to be a teacher

African history is the one part of history I want to learn about but don‘t know where to begin. Hopefully, this section will help.

I kinda gotta argue against this one. I think it depends on the species and its uses.

We‘re still dealing with the effects of the Colombian exchange. Just like viruses, Colorado potato beetles mutate and find ways to survive every single pesticide we throw at them. Now we have crops covered in God knows what that we invest every day of our lives. It makes me think about our current food shortage and what is really going on. Are we just having a shortage or is this the year everything mutates?

This book took me an incredibly long time to read; not just because it‘s about 500 pages.
It‘s extremely interesting how globalization has been around since the first recorded voyage in 1492. The impacts of that first voyage are very interesting to see and the world would be an entirely different place without it.

Reading about malaria makes me realize that sometimes, good can come out of bad situations. It makes me think about the current pandemic and makes me wonder what good is going to come out of all of this that we can‘t see today, but maybe future historians might see?

Pocahontas had a name. That name was Mataoka. Pocahontas was a nickname that meant “little hellion”
#1493 #charlesmann #pocahontas #mataoka #ushistory #indigenouspeople #indigenouspeopleshistory #history #nativeamericanhistory

Engaging, informative

Not the right time mentally for this one.

1. The tagged book. Fascinating history.
2. Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus. I bailed, and I do that rarely.
3. So much I want to read, but can‘t think of anything specific.
4. Goodreads annual challenge set for 65 books this year. So far I‘m at 25, so I‘m behind, but not going to stress about it.
Tagging @tdrosebud and @theresidentromantic @Lorene come join the fun!
#thursdaysurvey

An incredibly interesting and unique take on history. Not at all what I was expecting. This book expounds on the Columbian Exchange, the movement and exchange of commodities and people between Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa. A huge amount of information, well written. Recommend enthusiastically.

We moved #booksandcoffee to Monday, since tomorrow‘s schedule looks crazy. I may finish this #chunkster today😄

Back to normal, or as close to normal as my schedule ever gets😂 Glad to be able to do #booksandcoffee with hubby again. Very close to finishing this chunkster.

Hubby is off with our son, judging the state science fair. So for a change, I‘m out for #bookandcoffee by myself. A great start to my reading day.

It‘s a gray, rainy day, perfect for our weekly #booksandcoffee morning. It‘s supposed to be like this all day. I plan to get a lot of reading done 😎

I‘m going to be spending most of the day working with middle school choirs getting ready for performance assessment. But I‘m not missing our #booksandcoffee weekly “date.” It‘s just a little earlier than usual 😄

About the Irish potato famine: “...it was one of the deadliest famines in history, in terms of the percentage of population lost. A similar famine in the United States today would kill almost 40 million people.”

It‘s supposed to be stormy today and a perfect day for #coffeeandbooks but right now it‘s beautiful. Still, I‘m enjoying our weekly date, and will take my walk when we get home.

Back to #coffeeandbooks plus a bagel after missing last week. This book is fascinating. Today I‘ve read about silver mining in South America and trading silver with the Chinese, subjects I‘ve never encountered before.

Between my sinus infection and hubby teaching a class yesterday, we missed our weekly #coffeeandbooks date. We decided to stay home this morning do books with tea. I‘m reading a section on Chinese monetary policy in the 16th century, not what I expected, but quite interesting.

1. 1493 and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
2. Ravenclaw
3. New Amsterdam
#weekendreads

Sitting in the waiting room at the doctor‘s office and thankful that I brought my book. A half hour and counting...

If it‘s Tuesday, it must be time for our books and coffee date😊

Tuesday coffee and book date with hubby. I‘m so sore from painting the last few days, I need a day off to relax and read.

“Newspapers usually describe globalization in purely economic terms, but it is also a biological phenomenon; indeed, from a long-term perspective, it may be PRIMARILY a biological phenomenon.”

I may be highlighting a lot in this book!

Starting this as my first #nonfiction of 2019. I‘m hooked already, and I‘m only through the prologue.

My bookish gifts from hubby. I know next to nothing about this period, so the history should be fascinating. And I‘ve already found a recipe in the cookbook that I want to make this weekend.

Fascinating and also felt all over the place - I'm not sure how much of that was due to the audiobook format, but I was able to appreciate most of the flow of information, even if it sometimes felt transient.

Finished my second book for #24in48 (started this one earlier). I got bogged down in a few places, but most of it was very interesting. Not stuff you learned about in school.