I've bought 7 books today

Each $20, and new, from PageOne.
I've almost developed a dog's instinct to "smell" whether a name is Irish or not.
The rule is simple, when there're O', Mc, Mac, etc.,
then 90% of time, it's an Irish name.
Yet this rule does not work all the time,
like, Shaquille O'neal is certainly not an Irish guy..

And then their style of writing cannot be mistaken.
Many of them write with a storyteller's tone, yet an innocent voice,
also with big words that you don't normally come across,
and that says, they have as powerful a vocab as any tribes on earth.

And love they do, to write sentences like these.
So out of the mountain of discounted books, I picked 7:

1. Forty-Seven Roses -- A Memoir by Peter Sheridan
　(MAC: Sharp, jazzy, hilarious and often painful... You'll rejoice in this wild song of a book)
2. The Riddles of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1870 - 1922)
　(A spy thriller, haven't read anything like this before)
3. The Savage God -- A Study of Suicide by Al Alvarez
　(It catches my eyes coz on the first page, a physics teacher kills himself. It's real. Not a story)
4. Floods, Famines and Emperors -- El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian Fagan (UCSB)
　(El Nino, for the purpose of Gen. Ed.)
5. The Manhatten Project -- Big Science and the Atom Bomb
　(What has happened to them physicists at that time??)
6. Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics
　(I think a reference like this is good for a PT translator)
7. The As Seen On TV Cookbook
　(MAC: teenagers are always hungry & horny)
　(He is right, reading recipe is a good way to build vocabulary)
　(And I have a growing interest in FOOD)

Once you're determined to be a generalist that understands,
you will know how to choose your books to read..
(though to actually read them, or not to read them, is another story)

I have made up my mind, to specialize in GEN. ED.