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,…
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…
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.…
It’s hard to look away from the morbid sometimes. The gruesome details catch your eyes and linger in your mind, no matter how much you want to forget. In movies, the talented SFX teams have come far from the days of using chocolate syrup as blood à la “Psycho”. Of course, that means death can…
Hi there, readers. Bet you guys forgot about me, or assumed that I forgot how to write. But rest assured, I’m still hanging around, reading and not being inspired by anything I’ve read to write a review or listicle for mass consumption. However! That changed when I happened upon one of the most outlandish “non-fiction”…
Whewwww! We are really cutting it close to the end of the month here. That’s okay, there’s still time to sneak it in. You’ll recall from the previous Women’s History Month post that I am rather a fan of “listicle” books, much like the content on this site so far. That post focused on some…
Happy Women’s History Month! You might have heard the phrase “history is written by the victors,” and one place that’s quite evident is the presence of women throughout your textbooks. Women and other marginalized groups are often excluded from the narrative, either deemed unable to lead or hold positions of power like men, or relegated…
Read more Women’s History Month Reads – Illustrating Hidden Lives
Hi friends! Thank you all for your great engagement on my first-ever literary post on this blog. I’m back again for a follow-up to that article, this time tackling my favorite non-fiction reads instead of fiction. Let’s clarify a couple things before we hop into this post, though. First, these books did not necessarily come…
Buying New Bookshelves 