premise: yeah well i tell you what i'm a kind of uh a history nut i'm trying to think back now i read an awful lot of uh periodicals and uh you know almost what you call reference book and uh the last uh  i'm embarrassed to say the last you know honest to gosh cover to cover book that i read i cannot
hypothesis: So I read anything history-related, and I mean every word I can get my eyes on, but right now I'm drawing a blank about the last book I read.