Buying New Bookshelves

Welcome to BNB!

Reading is my favorite hobby, but writing is a close second – and so this blog was born. Feel free to check out what I’m reading right now, ask for recommendations, and read my reviews or listicles to find your next read!

What I’m reading…

  • Turncoats, Traitors And Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution by John Bakeless
  • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster
  • The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones

Latest from the Blog

Grad School Is Hard, Reading Is Not

Hi guys, long time no talk! As I’ve mentioned multiple times previously as an excuse for not posting, I’m now in grad school. Things are getting highly chaotic, so this is not actually the best time to post. However, I didn’t post when things were less chaotic and now I’m avoiding grading my students’ assignments,…

Hot Tub Time Machine

One sub-genre of history I’ve accidentally found myself engaged in recently is that of the time traveler. These books ask, if you accidentally found yourself transported to this place and time in the past, how would you get by? It’s a fun question to consider, especially as a lot of the history we study is…

If You Like This… You’ll Love That (Pt. 2)

Hey you! Do you tend to go all-in on a topic once you start reading about it and then fall down the rabbit hole for weeks? I do. You know this about me.  But perhaps your cup of tea is, for some reason, a topic other than shark-related disasters, naval disasters, or imperial exploration disasters.…

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