What Are You Reading ?

[Ruby]

next up - Anthem by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead was, for me, one of those life changing, eye opening revelations. I loved it. Atlas Shrugged is brilliant too.

I’m reading something called ‘The Visitors’ by Sally Beauman. It’s a combination of fact and fiction and is set in Egypt and the UK around the early twenties. It centers on lifelong friendships forged in childhood, as well as Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The author has done a lot of research, and the relationships between some of the protagonists, such as Lord Carnarvon and Carter and a host of other colonial bodies that were present at the time, are quite believable. It’s a good read. As a side note - Tutankhamun turns out to have been a rather tragic figure; a boy king with all sorts of congenital defects (thanks to the practice of incestuous marriages) who was likely smashed up in a chariot accident. He died at age 19. Quite sad.