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About Time I Read It: Atlantic by Simon Winchester

I don’t buy a lot of books for my Kindle but every so often when Amazon slashes the price of something on my wishlist to the point they’re practically giving it away I sometimes do. Back in 2022 I took...

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Big Book Summer Reading Challenge: The West by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

I love visiting the public library and discovering books I never knew existed. In a day and age when choose the next book to read through social media or some online retailer’s algorithm there’s...

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Book Beginnings: Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Not only does Gilion host the European Reading Challenge and TBR 25 in 25 Challenge on her Rose City Reader blog but also Book Beginnings on Friday. While I’m no stranger to her European Reading...

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The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe

Back in 2014 I posted my glowing review of Keith Lowe’s 2012 Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. Since then I’ve recommended the book a million times and enshrining it of sorts...

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