  For some reason I stayed late at the office yesterday. I had some tasks to finish up before this morning and I didn't get home until after 7:00 pm.
About par for the course actually. I watched urlLink Resident Evil on the DVD, then read some more of Derek Freeman's book, urlLink Margaret Mead and urlLink Samoa . His urlLink central tenet , that Mead's analysis of Samoan teenagers in Coming of Age in Samoa was inherently flawed, certainly has merit.
I know several Samoans, and they all agree that Mead got it totally wrong. It's funny, I generally seem to have a book that takes me a while to read; I've been working on this Mead book since the beginning of July. Since then, I completed at least three other books and started a fourth. I consider those books as taking a break from the serious book.
I can usually polish one off in a day or two, while the more serious work takes a month or two. It was the same way with the Seven Storey Mountain. That book took me three months to read and I read four others during the same time frame. To finish off this train, I keep a list of what I read this year (or is on deck to be read). It can be found urlLink here. 
