/lit/ - Literature

I'm back since the other day, sorta remembering what's wrong with /lit/. Time for a last read / currently reading / next to read. Include thoughts, reviews, etc.

Last read: Lies My Teacher Told Me
>Filled holes I have about US History, lays out problems with textbooks convincingly. Chapter 11 (or was it 12) is all about how textbooks are ghost written by people who don't know shit about history. Most memorable part, strangely, was an example of the laziness of writing in textbooks: an exercise asked students to find a copy of a poem and write a two paragraph response to it. The poem (which one it actually was escapes me) was 400 pages long, and no high school student is going to read it.

Currently: How Schools Work
>How race and class affect ones scholastic achievement. Pretty straightforward.

Next: I dunno. Maybe Guns, Germs, & Steel, because I see (saw) it here all the time, and I really just want to read about the guy who asks why others have so much "cargo" (read wiki for context.) I also ordered something off Amazon for a penny, but I forgot what it was.