The Non-Fiction Stack
Is a bit high at the moment:
David Courtwright's Forces of Habit -- which I started ages ago. Probably last year. And just never finished. I just do that with non fiction! I'm sorry! I think I treat nonfiction like I do craft projects: feeling no obligation to finish one before starting the next.
Thomas P. Lowry's Swamp Doctor: The Diary of a Union Surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina Marshes. You have to be in the right mood to read someone's diary. I almost think this book is not something to sit down and read full through, but to read one chapter a month along the way while reading some other history of the Civil War. Unless you're a CW buff, which I'm not.
Anthony A. Barrett's Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. Another one I've not touched in ages. I'll have to go back to the beginning, the familial trees are too convoluted for me to remember at this slow reading rate.
Lawrence M. Friedman's American Law in the Twentieth Century. Interesting, I just got distracted by work and contemporary politics.
Malcolm Brown's T.E. Lawrence. Arrived in the mail last night! Along with a second copy for a friend. Opened it up and started reading immediately.
John Boswell's Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Just looked terribly interesting. Haven't cracked it yet.
coming soon from Amazon:
Davic McCollough's Truman
Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies
Roy Porter's English Society in the Eighteenth Century
John Dean's Worse than Watergate
Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud
Paul Krugman's The Great Unraveling
David McCollough's John Adams
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
Oh, and then there's all my wonderful language books.
Bear in mind that while all books on this list link to Amazon, I purchased many through the History Book Club. If you're a history buff, join HBC.
(Looks at all these books and sighs happily. Can there be any felicity greater than this?)
David Courtwright's Forces of Habit -- which I started ages ago. Probably last year. And just never finished. I just do that with non fiction! I'm sorry! I think I treat nonfiction like I do craft projects: feeling no obligation to finish one before starting the next.
Thomas P. Lowry's Swamp Doctor: The Diary of a Union Surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina Marshes. You have to be in the right mood to read someone's diary. I almost think this book is not something to sit down and read full through, but to read one chapter a month along the way while reading some other history of the Civil War. Unless you're a CW buff, which I'm not.
Anthony A. Barrett's Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. Another one I've not touched in ages. I'll have to go back to the beginning, the familial trees are too convoluted for me to remember at this slow reading rate.
Lawrence M. Friedman's American Law in the Twentieth Century. Interesting, I just got distracted by work and contemporary politics.
Malcolm Brown's T.E. Lawrence. Arrived in the mail last night! Along with a second copy for a friend. Opened it up and started reading immediately.
John Boswell's Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Just looked terribly interesting. Haven't cracked it yet.
coming soon from Amazon:
Davic McCollough's Truman
Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies
Roy Porter's English Society in the Eighteenth Century
John Dean's Worse than Watergate
Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud
Paul Krugman's The Great Unraveling
David McCollough's John Adams
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
Oh, and then there's all my wonderful language books.
Bear in mind that while all books on this list link to Amazon, I purchased many through the History Book Club. If you're a history buff, join HBC.
(Looks at all these books and sighs happily. Can there be any felicity greater than this?)
