This was fascinating! It took me a while to get through it, as I found it was best to stop every so often and sit with the chapters while I digested them. The scope of the book, after all, is so enormous that it can become overwhelming. Regardless, it's chock-full of ideas about the evolution, development, and culture of the human species. I don't know enough about history or anthropology to be able to fill in a lot of the gaps here - it seems churlish to call near-500 pages a brief sketch, but of course it is. How can it not be? - but I'm certainly interested in reading more.

As I made my way through the book, I found myself making notes of things to go look up, which to me is always the sign of an interesting read. My TBR list does not thank me, but my brain does. Books that spark ideas are my favourite type of books, and Sapiens is going on the list of books I have to get my own copy of, so that I can dip back into it in future.