While both Amazon and Kobo are relatively good at suggesting books for me to read based upon books I’ve already read (although the latter mostly recommends to me other books I’ve already read), I do also make sure to browse Kobo for sales.
Tonight, then, I picked up The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary (link goes to Bookshop, as usual) because it popped up on the Kobo store for $3.99. I’d not heard of it before, but I’ve read his Destiny Disrupted , back when I was on an Islamic history kick.
Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories—to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires, civilizations, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap, the encounters produced everything from confusion, chaos, and war to cultural efflorescence, religious awakenings, and intellectual breakthroughs.
It will be a bit before I get to it; I try to read books in the order in which I bought or borrowed them, and at the moment this one is fifth in line for my nonfiction reads.