for me the most exciting day of the week is going to the library
i read on average 4 books a week fifty weeks a year
this week i was still followwng my russian history trend having re read my copy of then days that shook the world by john reed and re watched eisensteins silent film "october" i couldn't help but pick up russia versus napoleon the true history of the war from war and peace.
This was followed quite seredipiously by a biography of pauline bonoparte napoleons "oh er missis" sister then i found strendahls charterhouse of parma coincidently set in italy in napoleonic times and written by a survivor of the retreat from moscow wriiten in 1839 but not as dry as i expected
finally i took out sea monsters from the bbc series a great book from a series i watched using dive footage and GCI to dramatise the seven deadly seas of the prehistoric world
wheres the napoleon connection you ask yourself - well didn't napoleons army once fight over the ownership of a fossil skull of a mosasaur
currently finding links between everything i read even through i didn't expect it
usually i like to read long book series around the theme of "viking spartigladitoris2 for example Robert low's oathsworn series the whale road , the wolf sea the white raven the whale rod with the treasure of atilla was a great read as was the middle east set wolf sea however I found the northern set prow beast just more of the same lets hope the next one is better
likewise Harry Sidebottoms warrior of Rome chronicles set 260AD and Ben Kanes Road to Rome cannot help reading each book as soon as it comes out but go tho the library as I wouldn't actually go in a shop and buy them
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