Have no fear, I’m still reading books. It’s just that in the past two months, I can’t get myself to focus on reading just one book. As can be seen on the side bar, I have two books that I’m “officially” reading.

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is actually a re-read, the first time I’ve read it was about 6 years ago during my junior year in high school. I’m re-reading it as a refresher and to help me in my social commentary blogging.

The second book, The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant is a super slow progress. I’m currently stuck at Chapter 11 wherein the book is going deeper into the politics of story, which took place in Renaissance Florence, Italy. Right around the time Niccolo Machiavelli was still alive!

So it’s probably because of my short-attention span and extreme interest in history, politics and philosophy that made me drop ‘Venus’ and pick up Machiavelli’s The Prince from my bookshelf. And I can’t help but smile to see that the two books are intimately connected.

Both books deal with the politics of 14th and 15th century Florence, Italy! The Prince dealing strictly with the politics side, while The Birth of Venus provides a personal and intimate glimpse of the politicians’ lives even though it’s just fiction.

Now I have a feeling that the other books in my collection also share some intimate link or another. Hopefully though, all of this would help me finish these two books I’m currently reading so that I can move on to the others.

I’m sure you other book lovers had a similar encounter like this before. Having two or more books that are not in the same series yet they share some intimate connections with each other. Care to share the story?