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What I’ve been reading since the last time I posted a bunch of books

Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Limerick

You are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

Prisoner without a Name Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman

Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis

Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

September 24, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Legacy of Conquest – 5/5 Stars Not the most exciting audiobook I could have listened to, but a very worthwhile overview of not only American Western history but also historiography of the field too. Patricia Limerick was at the time a historian working in a Western American university. She tells a story of a colleague getting a job with a Southern university and he declares that he should learn a little Southern history to supplement his expertise. She asks him if he learned Western history […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Poetry Tagged With: adam haslett, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Don Marquis, Jacobo Timerman, Patricia Limerick, Vasily Grossman

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:400 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Poetry · Tags: adam haslett, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Don Marquis, Jacobo Timerman, Patricia Limerick, Vasily Grossman ·
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War and War

May 8, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There’s a long section (about 100 pages) at the end of War and Peace that serves as a treatise on the nature of small events building to create large events, about the incrementalism of history and historiography. This section serves as an epilogue to the remaining 1000 or so pages, and by the time you’ve gotten that far, if you haven’t already picked up your pace too meet the length of the novel, well, what’s another 100 at the conclusion of all the different stories. Both […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:193 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman ·
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