Searching for good books

I’ve been doing a lot of reading in the last two or three months. Whenever I’m looking at a period of inactivity, I start shopping for books. When in Nashville in April and May, I went to a Barnes and Noble store just off the Vanderbilt campus. In such bookstores I just drift around the place looking for likely titles, which usually end up being histories. I buy more than I’m likely to read, becau...