A day's tale

I have spent six hours on Wikipedia today. Some advantages of being home on a working day... And the end result looks... desultory!

I read up on:
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. William Wordsworth
3. WWII
- General turn of events
- Rape of Nanking / Japanese invasion of China
- Blitzkrieg tactic of warfare
- Baltic States & Scandinavian Countries
- Hakko Ichiu - Japanese political slogan, post 1940. Literally eight cords, one roof OR all the world under one roof. There seem to be a lot of similarities between the german 'living room' concept and this one... at least in what both ideologies aspired to achieve. Need more indepth discussion with philosopher or phil as I call him... to validate the thought.
- Flooding of yellow river - I dont know how to feel really after reading that the Chinese central government killed its own people (estimated between 500,000 to 900,00) by flooding the yellow river in june 1938... because they wanted to stall the rapidly progessing Japanese... and prepare for the decisive battle of Wuhan. Guess what! the damn town was taken by the Japs anyway! In october. So effectively, they expended 6000+ lives per day... to buy time they couldn't use!
4. Song Lyrics - was too depressed to go on with WWII really!
5. Trivia on 'American Pie' by Don McLean - categorised as folk rock. And how the song 'Killing me softly' was inspired by it. Sung by Roberta Flack then, it won the record of the year for that year... beating American Pie!

Ok... I know you are bored. So let talk books? I went cuckoo in the head yesterday and picked the most number of novels in a single go in my life!

1. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
2. Sula - Toni Morrison
3. A case of exploding mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
4. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
5. Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet

So its going to be a lot of reading on and off mustard (Mr laptop)... I am set for onslaught of the weekend. They are darned hard to get through. Baby blue (Ms shuffle) seems to have become an appendage of my body... The wallet's called rusty, and the cell phone gray. Bed's called choco and the laptop bag's too corny to reveal! :)