HISTORATHON 2024 | “Pile of Possibilities” July-Sept. (1500-1820)
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- HISTORATHON 2024
Historathon is a year-long celebration of reading historical nonfiction. The goal is to read, discuss, and spotlight works of history, and to encourage reluctant readers to give history a try. The calendar year will be divided into three-month blocks, with each block focusing on a particular period of time:
Jan-March = Prehistory-500 CE
April-June = 500-1500
July-Sept = 1500-1820
Oct-Dec = 1820-Present
To participate, simply read a work of history that falls into the time period for each quarterly segment of the year. Read more if you’d like! Tailor the choices to your interests or try something completely new.
Historathon "Side Quests": We will also be encouraging/participating in history-related activities throughout the year, including watching historical films/documentaries, trying historical recipes, listening to historical music, etc. Feel free to join us!
We will be using the hashtag: #historathon2024
To join us on DISCORD, follow this link: / discord
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Awesome picks ! The Beast sounds great 😊.My favorite history period so I decided to participate in the Readathon ✨ TBR 2 Baroque Period :"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe( Eng Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith)" by Octavio Paz It's a biography of an extraordinary female poet and a brief bio of Shakespeare by Brandon Toporov & Joe Lee .The third one Is from the 1820's " In the Heart of the sea , the tragedy of the whaleship Essex " by Nathaniel Philbrick .New sub here greetings from Honduras 🇭🇳
Beast looks fun! (If fun is a word that can be applied to the topic 😅 but a fun type of book). Plus, the cover is amazing.
The Wager has also been on my radar, I’ll definitely get to that one at some point 🙌🏼
Have a fun summer break Vin! 🥳
So much going on this summer and I love all the events and can’t resist joining in! Great pile of possibilities Vin. I’ve given up calling my lists TBRs because I am too fond of going off on a tangent and changing my mind about what to read 😊 Looking forward to Q3
I’m pretty good about sticking with a reading schedule most times, but summers are always more loose with me.
Beast looks cool. And I've seen the Wager a ton as well. Good luck on your committee planning. This is my smallest pile of possibilities for the quarters that I'm scrounging around trying to find some for later this week haha. Great vid Vin
Thanks, Justin!
Hey Vin! Great choices. I really liked The Wager. Grann is a great story teller. I have American Dialogue but I haven’t read it yet. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it. Thanks for the pile of books.
Thanks, Bill! I’m glad to hear you liked The Wager so much.
Congratulations on being asked to join your town's committee! That's awesome.
I've been wanting to read the wager for some time now and I look forward to your thoughts on that one.
I mentioned in your last video about wanting to jump into Ron Chernow's Washington biography, and I went ahead and just jumped right in! So I'll be nose-deep in that one for the next month or two.
Thank you! And good luck with Chernow’s book. Please report back to let me know how you liked it.
Bring on the Trek! I’ve got a nice pile going! Are we doing Redshirts?
Yes! When would you like to start it?
Beast sounds interesting. It makes me think of the French film Brotherhood of the Wolf which if I remember correctly is based on the events in Gevaudan. I still need to read The Wager.
I have vague memories of that film. I may need to look it up again.
I did pretty well with Q1 and Q2, but it looks like my next history read will be skipping to Q4 - I forgot about Historathon for a minute, and it’s a library book. Well, I’ve been reading Henry Adams _History of the United States_ all year so at least that coincides. Your options sound good.
I have a book about Henry Adams on my TBR shelves. He’s someone I unfortunately know too little about.
I'm still trying to decide what to read for Q3. I think I will do the Young Queens, but I'd like to have a few more options as well.
That one looks interesting.