RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[spiralsheep]

What are you reading?

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[valoise]

The Britannias sounds interesting. The history of places that are often overlooked can be fascinating.

[spiralsheep]

The Britannias is very densely packed with sourced facts (a few of which are still inevitably wrong, lol), each island is viewed through the lens of a limited time period or set of themes, but also includes the author's speculations. I enjoyed Albinnia's prose style and decided I might also like her fiction so I've acquired Cwen, although not to read immediately (note: Cwen is a feminist book about women and community that includes a Mx character in the wider cast). Some of the chapters will be duds for some people (nothing has ever made the Second English Civil War interesting to me) and others won't be detailed enough (tell me more about Tortola...) but the book tried to do a lot and mostly succeeded. I learned some weird facts about the Channel Islands that led me on a brief wiki-tour, and also made me want to find out more about Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun, which is the point of reading popular general history for me: to find subjects I want to know about in more depth. I wish I'd waited for the paperback though because the book was sooo heavy! :-)