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Recent reading + some RL stuff
Mar. 5th, 2022 09:01 pm( Some ways in which the war has so far touched my own social contexts )
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (2021)
For book club. This did not work for me, and I didn't finish it. As one of the book club members said, it felt like the result of a party game where someone had said: come up with a plot containing violins, aliens, donuts, and demons! All these components did not really come together for me. And the romance was so uninteresting! It was just the violinist walking into the donut shop, whereupon she and the alien (in a human body) who kept the shop got instant crushes on each other.
The Road not Taken: how Britain narrowly missed a revolution 1381-1926 by Frank McLynn (2012)
This is the author who wrote what seems to be the definitive biography of Charles Edward Stuart, which I'm not planning to read. But I thought I could get the gist of his opinions on the period if I read the chapter on the '45 in this other book. I might go back and read other bits of it later as well, about the English Civil War and Chartists, for example.
There's nothing new for me about the course of the war, but I learned two new things about the economics of the period which I'm surprised I haven't come across elsewhere. Why has no one said this before? ( Probably only of interest for 18th century nerds )
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (2021)
For book club. This did not work for me, and I didn't finish it. As one of the book club members said, it felt like the result of a party game where someone had said: come up with a plot containing violins, aliens, donuts, and demons! All these components did not really come together for me. And the romance was so uninteresting! It was just the violinist walking into the donut shop, whereupon she and the alien (in a human body) who kept the shop got instant crushes on each other.
The Road not Taken: how Britain narrowly missed a revolution 1381-1926 by Frank McLynn (2012)
This is the author who wrote what seems to be the definitive biography of Charles Edward Stuart, which I'm not planning to read. But I thought I could get the gist of his opinions on the period if I read the chapter on the '45 in this other book. I might go back and read other bits of it later as well, about the English Civil War and Chartists, for example.
There's nothing new for me about the course of the war, but I learned two new things about the economics of the period which I'm surprised I haven't come across elsewhere. Why has no one said this before? ( Probably only of interest for 18th century nerds )
