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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ublog.thirdlaw.net/users/sree" class="u-url mention">@<span>sree</span></a></span> Yeah, that's a good point. Though I wonder how much that *actually* happens in the US? I guess it's not a thing I've expressly looked for when eyeballing the bibliographies of Western popular histories. But there are clearly many indirect, "trickle down" routes (like PhD ⭢ book ⭢ magazine article sources ⭢ pop hist).</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@monkey1" class="u-url mention">@<span>monkey1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@khinsen" class="u-url mention">@<span>khinsen</span></a></span> <br />This is what I hate about posting any book reviews — people recommend things back (-:.</p><p>But this looks great, and as someone who's read a lot of Swiss history, it looks especially interesting. I've just ordered it, thanks!</p>
<p>Saturday’s book was The Taiga Ridge Murders by Skyla Dawn Cameron.</p><p>It’s not *that* kind of horror. It’s sort of modern gothic horror: creepy and eerie but with minimal gore. </p><p>PS: The cat lives.</p><p>Get it now: <a href="https://payhip.com/b/LnA5I" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">payhip.com/b/LnA5I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/creepy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>creepy</span></a></p>
<p>Friday’s book was So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams.</p><p>Insufficient Marvin … otherwise excellent. </p><p>Very short review: <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d04c0c02-f42b-49ef-8bee-7a0be96ffbe6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/</span><span class="invisible">d04c0c02-f42b-49ef-8bee-7a0be96ffbe6</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CosySciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CosySciFi</span></a><br /><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a></p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> yepyep</p>
@shriramk@mastodon.social There doesn't appear to be a pipeline of PhD -> Book, in India, as in the humanities in the US. So popular historians (this author doesn't appear to be a professional historian) don't have a rich set of both primary and historical scholarship to collate from.
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@khinsen" class="u-url mention">@<span>khinsen</span></a></span> </p><p>I really enjoyed this book by Le Roy Ladurie:</p><p>The Beggar and the Professor, a sixteenth-century family saga</p><p>It tells the story, with the proper background, of Felix Platter, a medical doctor, and his father.</p><p>Great history and a great read!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@khinsen" class="u-url mention">@<span>khinsen</span></a></span> I wish! The problem is there's no such thing as "Indian" history because there's really no such thing as "India", historically speaking. It's not much different than trying to find a single unifying book about "Europe", as opposed to Romans, Pax Romana, Celts, Britain and its invaders, Holy Rom Emp, Renaissance, Reformation…etc.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@tackontitan" class="u-url mention">@<span>tackontitan</span></a></span> That's hilarious. Is this "The Ivory Throne"?</p>