Pop culture

Reading: Marriage, a history: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz, and The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman

Watching: Bleak House, on PBS'"Masterpiece Theatre", and starring among others, Gillian Anderson

Listening: Life for Rent by Dido and Extraordinary Machine by Fiona Apple