Monthly Wrap-Up | April 2024
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- A summary of the books I read in April 2024. #booktube #historathon2024
BOOKS DISCUSSED
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Women Troubadours by Meg Bogin
- Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
- The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
- When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Christian Livermore
- Robert the Bruce: King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott
- Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir
- The Saga of the Volsungs/The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok trans. by Jackson Crawford
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I listened to the audiobook of Jackson’s translation of the Saga of the Volsungs. He did the reading, and is a pleasure to listen to. An afternoon and evening very well spent.
It’s great to hear him read so you can get the most likely historical pronunciations.
What a great month! I really enjoyed reading handmaid‘s tale with you… your insight definitely improved my experience. I really need to read some of these sagas…. Can’t believe I haven’t, considering how much I love the Vikings show. 😜. Accurate or not, I absolutely loved Braveheart… One of my favorite movies of all time.
Braveheart is still a fun movie! And yes, I’d definitely recommend checking out some sagas. They open up a fascinating world.
This is sort of tangential to the "Norse America" book, but several years ago, I read something called "The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution" about how supposedly a lot of the founding fathers took inspiration from the history of what happens to the Angles and Saxons. Really unusual thesis, but it made a really solid argument. Also just finished up the part in the Dan Jones Plantagenet book about the Battle of Bannockburn. Didn't realize what a routing it was for the English.
That thesis sounds interesting. And yeah, it seems that Robert Bruce made a career of humiliating the English.
Great wrap up. You had a really good month. You always find such interesting history books and I like the sound of the Women Troubadours. Really enjoyed The Valkyries and The Saga of the Volsungs. Fab video😊
Thanks so much, Debs!
I really wish to be able to read that many books. Like your videos
Thank you! I don’t usually get to that many books in a month.
Nice wrap up! Added some titles to my TBR. I’ve been struggling with the book I chose for this stretch of Historathon. It’s a bit more dry than I thought it would be and I just can’t get stuck in. 😅
Nonfiction history can be minefield of dryness at times.
I've never heard of the conflict over discover between catholics and protestants lol, that's about as petty as it gets haha
Petty is a great word for it 😂
An interesting reading month. I'm way behind on my Historathon homework.
It goes all year! Plenty of time.
New here I do have The Year 1000 and Robert The Bruce the latter of which led me to an old monastery chronical which was interesting reading I enjoyed the video
How cool!