Am I really that much of a nerd?

Becca reads quite a bit. I used to, but once I started college, reading textbooks and studying took most of the desire to read for fun away. I have tried to read more. I usually go in spurts, mostly around the new year. One year, I read the three books in the Fishers of Men series by Gerald N. Lund. I used to read action fiction, like Clive Cussler, which I liked, but I have decided that if I'm going to read, I want it to make me think a little bit. Maybe it's that I've become accustomed to learning something when I read, like the journal articles that I'm always reading for my research.

Now to the question, or the realization that I've made. Here is a list of the last three books that I have read or that I am reading:

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Tweny-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

I have actually really, really enjoyed them, in addition to my subscriptions to National Geographic and Mechanical Engineering. So, I guess if being a nerd is thinking about why different civilizations have become world powers while others have not, space-time singularities and black holes, and how the world is so interconnected, I guess that yes, I must be a nerd. And also write run-on sentences. I think that the next book will be Into the Wild.