WHAT have you finished reading recently? A couple of memoirs about people who escaped from the North Tower on 9/11.
WHAT are you reading now? SPQR by Mary Beard (~70% through) and Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff. Fall and Rise is taking priority because I want to do a Thursday review of it, and SPQR isn’t taking off for me the way I figured it would be. I am enjoying it well enough, but it’s nothing like Tom Holland’s Rubicon. (Speaking of, he’s got several other Roman books…considering I listen to his podcast every week, time to get cracking on reading those!)
WHAT are you reading next? Most likely The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943- 1944 by Rick Atkinson. September is proving to be a month for chunksters, beginning with The Great Deluge and continuing.
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is, “What is your superpower?” I don’t know if it’s a superpower, but I’m pretty good at spontaneous history lectures. I work as a local history librarian, so that comes in handy.
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I’d call that a superpower, Stephen! 😊
Cool!
Fascinating reading this week, Stephen. Fall and Rise needs to go on my wish list. How amazing that you can give a history lecture at the drop of a hat. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog today.
I finished it late last night it’s quite good!
I was curious about SPQR.
“spontaneous history lectures”? fantastic!
Last #book I finished: My First Goose, by #IsaacBabel
Amreading: Orwell’s Roses by #RebeccaSolnit
Amlistening to: The Best of #EdgarAllanPoe TBR
Reading next: Les Doigts rouges, by #KeigoHigashino
I finished it today at a 3-hour stint in the doctor’s office. May post review on Friday in short its revieionism for revisionism’s sake
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