1/12/13 – started reading Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. 
1/16/13 – finished it. This book was fascinating. Very clever; the premise is that the Axis powers won WWII and Japan and Nazi Germany have basically divided up the world between them. The end is rather surprising and speaks to the idea that Reality is subjective. Here is a good article which sums up the book in all its fascinating layers, but better read the book first! (spoilers).
I marked a passage in this book to research. It was regarding “plutocracy” and I looked it up. And as my sister says: Quite an education. Quite a lot to think about. Such as, what can be done to reverse this here in the United States of America? And indeed, it seems very relevant at the present moment in time.