So, What Are You Reading?

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  1. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 volumes).
     
  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

  4. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Pippa Pralen's Unvanquished: How Women of the South Survived the Civil War In Their Own Words.
     
  5. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Over the weekend I read the Jack London collection of short stories called "A Son of the Sun". Highly recommended (so long as you remember when the stories were written.)
     
  6. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read John A. Logan's The Volunteer Soldier of America.
     
  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Re-read Graham Phillips' The Lost Tomb of King Arthur: The Search for Camelot and the Isle of Avalon.
     
  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Nennius' British History and The Welsh Annals.
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Gildas' The Ruin of Britain.
     
  10. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Yes. "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae." A rather old work - believed by scholars to date somewhere between 490 and 550 C.E. Historically important as it's about the only contemporary (or nearly-so) account of events in Britain in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae

    Did you read it in the original, Ted? :emoji_smiley:
     
  11. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    No, I just read it in English translation.
     
  12. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I especially liked this bit:

    "Britain has priests, but they are fools; numerous ministers, but they are shameless; clerics, but they are wily plunderers."

    But that's just me ... and Gildas, of course. Maybe it's because we're both from there - I dunno.
     
  13. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Well, you're in luck then. Latin version available for download here, (Mommsen - Volume 3). https://archive.org/details/chronicaminorasa13momm

    Semper libenter auxilio. (Always glad to help.) :)
     
  14. Icampy

    Icampy New Member

    The Earth is Weeping

    It sure brings treatment of Native Americans into perspective, not flattering of the Confederacy, and the US especially. Fascinating read, I never realized how many factions were constantly at war.
     
  15. Icampy

    Icampy New Member

    And it shows what a dbag President Lincoln was.
     
  16. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    Just finished Educated by Tara Westover.
     
  17. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  18. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Edward Chase's The Memorial Life of General Sherman.
     
  19. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Wallace K. Frguson's Facets of the Renaissance.
     
  20. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Read Paul Veyne's Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination .
     

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