Happy New Year. Looking forward to some interesting reviews in 2018. I post mine on Thursdays and (sometimes) Mondays when I need to catch up. I might have some WW1 books this year that might interest you and around 50% of my non-Fiction is British & European history so I'm sure that'll interest you. Have a good year ahead!
I have been lurking around your blog this AM, I think we have some interests in common! I am looking for some good WWI books - especially anything about Gavrilo Princip, but there simply is not much. Most of the books I have looked at about WWI don't even mentioned his name. I look forward to your recommendations and reviews, Happy New Year!
My 'plan' - yeah, right - was to follow WW1 through from 2014-2018 reading about the corresponding year 1914-1918 so this year I'd be reading how the war ended. Needless to say that didn't happen. What I'm going to *try* to do this year is 'bookend' the war by reading about how it started and the consequences afterwards.
My latest idea is what I call my Triple Reads where I read 3 books in (fairly) quick succession on a related subject. My 3 about the start of WW1 have 2 in there about the assassination. If you haven't come across them already they are:
The Assassination of the Archduke - Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
The Trigger - The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip: The Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher.
The third book is a general history of the aftermath of that event across Europe in July 1914.
I LOVE THIS GOAL! Totally sounds like something I would come up with also, very cool. Sorry it did not quite work out the way you intended it too, but your new plan sounds perfectly fine.
I read Butcher's book a couple years ago, and the King/Woolmans book is on my To-Read. What is the third book called that you are going to read?
Thanks for sharing these ideas, I really like them.
To a great reading year too!
ReplyDeleteYes! This will be a great year with good books and good friends!
DeleteHappy New Year. Looking forward to some interesting reviews in 2018. I post mine on Thursdays and (sometimes) Mondays when I need to catch up. I might have some WW1 books this year that might interest you and around 50% of my non-Fiction is British & European history so I'm sure that'll interest you. Have a good year ahead!
ReplyDeleteI have been lurking around your blog this AM, I think we have some interests in common! I am looking for some good WWI books - especially anything about Gavrilo Princip, but there simply is not much. Most of the books I have looked at about WWI don't even mentioned his name. I look forward to your recommendations and reviews, Happy New Year!
DeleteMy 'plan' - yeah, right - was to follow WW1 through from 2014-2018 reading about the corresponding year 1914-1918 so this year I'd be reading how the war ended. Needless to say that didn't happen. What I'm going to *try* to do this year is 'bookend' the war by reading about how it started and the consequences afterwards.
DeleteMy latest idea is what I call my Triple Reads where I read 3 books in (fairly) quick succession on a related subject. My 3 about the start of WW1 have 2 in there about the assassination. If you haven't come across them already they are:
The Assassination of the Archduke - Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
The Trigger - The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip: The Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher.
The third book is a general history of the aftermath of that event across Europe in July 1914.
I LOVE THIS GOAL! Totally sounds like something I would come up with also, very cool. Sorry it did not quite work out the way you intended it too, but your new plan sounds perfectly fine.
DeleteI read Butcher's book a couple years ago, and the King/Woolmans book is on my To-Read. What is the third book called that you are going to read?
Thanks for sharing these ideas, I really like them.
Oh, I'm FULL of good ideas - just not too good at following up! [grin]
DeleteThe 3rd book is:
July 1914 - Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
Ha, I am the same way. Big ideas and then...sometimes I follow through and sometimes I get distracted.
DeleteI added that book to be my TBR and found this one also:
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro
Happy New Year Sarah!
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan, hope your year is wonderfully book-filled!
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