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[quote=Anonymous]I love this thread but I do wish people could give a short summary of the book.  I don’t want to have to google each name.  You can’t really tell from most of the titles what the books are about.

I read ghosts of Spain which is a sort of travel book by th guardian correspondent in Spain.  It’s really good although a little dated now.  It talks about each region in Spain and some of the 20th century history and culture—the initial focus is on the endeavor to sort of interrogate the Franco period and what happened then, but it then goes way beyond that topic to talkkkg about tourism, linguistics, etc.    A great east read especially for anyone traveling there.

I have a stack on my bookshelf to read including th fifth son which is about the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest. Also Replaceable You about human anatomy by Mary Roach because I’ve really liked her other books.

I’m also debating something between us which is an anthropologists take on the current political divide — if anyone has read that and has thoughts I’d love to hear them.

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