Well, April didn’t quite go the way I’d expected. A lot of equipment turnover at the library + beginning of big archives project at the library + end-of-term assignments meant that after a few history reads, the only thing I read was easy-on-the-brain historical fiction. Speaking of historical fiction, Mssr Sharpe will ride again this October with Sharpe’s Storm, and Robert Harris will be releasing Precipice in autumn as well, which appears to be set immediately before the Great War. Just yesterday I heard of an author who I’ll be checking out more of, Brian Panowich: evidently he does crime/noir set in the South. Funnily enough I heard of him via the Morgan Wade Fan Club, because in one of his books he tells people to listen to her. I concur, here’s a playlist.

Read of England:
Life Below Stairs: The True Lives of Edwardian Servants. Technically read in March.
Elizabeth’s London, Liza Picard
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, Leo Damrosch
Sons of the Waves: Common Seamen in the Heroic Age of Sail, Stephen Taylor
No King, No Country, Wayne Grant
A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters
Longbow, Wayne Grant
Warbow, Wayne Grant
Broken Realm, Wayne Grant
The Ransomed Crown, Wayne Grant
The Dangerous Years, Max Hennessey
A Prince of Wales, Wayne Grant
To So Few, Russell Sullman

The Science Survey:
The Fall of Roman Britain: Why We Speak English. Sort of. Interestingly enough, this tackles a historical question with scientific tools — analyzing genes and climatic change evidence, etc, along with archaeological inquiries and some general history. I think I can get away sticking it into the Archaeology & Anthropology slot.
The Science of Baseball,Will Carroll. Again, sort of. I’ll stick it in physics and call it SAFE! Review to come.

Unreviewed:
I Judge You By Your Bookshelf, Grant Snider. This is a collection of cartoons about books, reading, writing, and poetry.

Diary of a Tokyo Teen, upcoming. Also largely graphical.

The Science of Baseball,Will Carroll. Literally just finished right before bed April 30. Will probably short-round it with Tokyo Teen.

Star Trek Lower Decks #1: This is a frustratingly short but fun LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! comic in which the LD peeps actually create a mix of Dracula + Moriarty. Solid adaption of art and storytelling, but too short. Its ending is like commercial break without the resolution of the second half. Even worse, Amazon is being all sneaky tricksy hobbitses and offering the first one on KU, but not the other two.

Classics Club and Reading Dixie:
(shrug)

Coming up in May:

My plan was to devote May to all things medieval, but so much of my RoE reading was set therein that I’m going to let May be unplanned, random, and fun.