As we all find our homes in the metaverse I’m leaning towards beehaw as a permanent home. The quality of engagement here is high. That said, I’m experimenting on several platforms, so you can also see me at:
That was my first book of his I read as well, back in college when I was taking a true crime class. My school had great English electives that I kept taking for fun and it set me back a year because I didn’t have anybody smart to tell me that they didn’t get me any closer to graduating.
I’ll check it out for sure! Like you said, it’s human stories in historical context and he has such a knack for that. So much historical non-fiction struggles to either tell the human story while also providing the straight facts in an easily consumable way, or tell the history while providing human color. He is really great at striking a good balance with it.
On the same note as others here recommending instrumental jazz, I also listen to a decent amount of international. Not understanding the language helps me to not be distracted by it. So there’s an endless wealth of interesting music in the Sublime Frequencies catalogue and it just drifts into the background for me unless I actually choose to focus on it.
I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.