First, the Tuesday Tease!

There is the classic Germany of poets and thinkers – ‘Dichter und Denker’ – Goethe, Schiller, Kant and Beethoven, of liberal parliaments and democratic constitutions, of heroic Christians and gentlemanly officers. But there is also the older, darker Germany, reaching far back to the deep forests across the Rhine and the Teutonic tribes which resisted the Romans so savagely and successfully. In modern times this is the Germany of ‘Richter und Henker’ – judges and hangmen, of Prussian militarism, Hitler and Himmler, Auschwitz and the SS … and of the Freikorps. (Hitler’s Heralds. May sit on review until October for a series of reviews about interwar Germany.)

(1) Snape, Snape, Sev-er-us Snape. Mostly.

(2) Edward, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Aslan is a better man than me, I’ll tell you.

(3) That one fellow in Dune who I won’t mention for spoilers.

(4) Humpfrey in The Sea Wolf. This is a more unusual example because Humpfrey wasn’t villainous, just useless.

(5) Amir, The Kite Runner.

I can’t think of more right off hand (I’m in grad school, brain resources are reallocated at the moment), so I’m going to switch to another meme found on BookForager via WordsandPeace, called “The Last Books I…”

(6) Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities and A Far Better Rest.

The Last Book I Bought:

First into Nagasaki, George Weller. The memoirs of a reporter who snuck into southern Japan just days after the bombing of Nagasaki, when reporters were still barred from.

The Last Book I Was Given:

The Practice of the Presence of God, Father Lawrence.

The Last Book I Gave to Someone Else

The Awakening of Miss Prim, Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

The Last Book I Started

Hitler’s Heralds: The Story of the Freikorps, Nigel Jones.

The Last Book I finished:

Kinfolk, Sean Dietrich.

The Last Book I Rated Five Stars

Kinfolk again.

The Last Book I Rated Two Stars

Video Game of the Year, Jordan Minor. A history of video games that largely ignores PC games, giving Half Life and Civilization massive disservice.

The Last Book I DNF’d

Casual Farming, sort of. I checked it out on KU but didn’t get into it. I don’t know if that counts! (It’s like someone wrote a novel based on games like Harvest Moon or StarDew Valley. I love SDV but this one wasn’t doing it for me. I’ll probably give it another shot.

The Last Book I listened To:

Technically I’ve been listening to Red Dead History, an analysis of how Red Dead Redemption II potrays the west, but the last book I finished listening to was Brent Spiner’s Fan Fiction, a fictional exaggeration about his being stalked by a fan and wooed by two twins. It was an audio drama more of an audiobook, with TNG stars like Patrick Stewart and LeVar Burton delivering their own lines.