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Thanks for the recommendation! 😊

I guess this is a small reason to not like him, but in 2021 he wrote an article where he compared the Extinction Rebellion to the English Peasants’ Revolt in a way that suggested both of them were apocalyptic and wanting the end of the world, like mobs riled up by apocalyptic preachers.

This guy is a historian but that article was so sus to me, like the only people who think that way about the Peasants’ Revolt are the ones who look back at history and think they would be the nobles enslaving end indebting people.

So yeah I was planning on reading his book on the Peasants’ Revolt but I guess I’ll pass on it and find one by a better historian

Nevermind, I found out Dan Jones is kinda cringe

I don’t usually buy physical books anymore, since I realised that I’d get better value for my money if I only get books that don’t really work on a Kindle, like illustrated books. So recently, I bought The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Dr. Eleanor Janega and it’s pretty good! It’s basically an introduction to the Middle Ages and it does a pretty good job at providing a overview of about 1000 years of history. This book got me interested in the Middle Ages enough that I feel like reading all of the Dan Jones books I’ve had in my TBR for ages now.

I use Storygraph but one of my friends is setting a Bookwyrm instance pretty soon, so I’ll be migrating

I’m reading Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb for a book club, also reading The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

I think I’m going to read a couple more books about neocolonialism and US intervention in the Global South this year, since I already read The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

yeah i’m sure everything will mellow out eventually

also becky chambers is great! i actually read her monk & robot books first, they’re basically an exploration of what a solarpunk society would look like and they’re super wholesome! wayfarers is wholesome too but more focused on found family

i think if you like cozy fantasy then becky chambers work will feel very familiar to you, so i recommend it! :)

We Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong is about microbes inside us and animals and I have no idea why I read it, but it was difficult to read because I’m terrible at biology. Still cool though

Edit: Oh, I didn’t realise this is the fiction comm. Oops. I guess I don’t read any challenging fiction books. Maybe I should rectify that

hi! just came over from hexbear, hope that’s ok

i’m reading record of a spaceborn few by becky chambers, the 3rd book in the wayfarers series. i love cozy sci-fi 😊