(and I'd like to say that I have my computer screen half-and-half with this Create Entries on the right, and an Excel spreadsheet of this year's reading on the left, for reference).

*I think I talked about Mary Beard's SPQR and...uh...I just went back. No, I did not talk about that.

Mary Beard - SPQR- I really liked this. I only have a glancing ( Read more... )

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I read twelve of Marie de France's lays yesterday. I read the version by Burgess and Busby (published by Penguin, 1999), who translate them into (modern 1) English prose. If you're not familiar, they're lays attributed to a twelfth-century author, who lived in England (hence the appellation of "from France"). She is quite upfront about where she ( Read more... )

*looks over all the half-finished reviews of novels, gives up temporarily ( Read more... )

Being the history geek I am, I read Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards, a rather light-hearted history book that enumerated all the regents from Egbert.

( And then I found this video. I can't stop laughing at the chorus. )

I've been reading about European history (I read through the section about WWII, a bit beyond, then skipped around to the early fifteenth century) and I have two things to say ( Read more... )

Heh heh. Um.

While some people may not be exactly up on their history (I point you to a giggle-worthy fanficrants  post, where the OP ran across someone writing a Tudor character texting on a cellphone [and it wasn't crackfic, apparently]) let me tell you, there are some people who are.

For instance, though 9/11 was nearly ten years ago,  jokes about it are in ( Read more... )