#Historicals and westerns are a definite fav tho

[sastrugie]

my christmas break starts this friday as well! what’s up with your coworker? have her test results come back? is she doing okay?

alright, so my fav topics include:

- the russian revolution, as already stated :D

- the cold war (mostly from the east european point of view)

- the tudors

- victorian era england

i also really love peaky blinders (the show) and i occasionally enjoy reading about how different gangs operated back in those days but i don’t know much lmao

also, monarchy is just such a terrible system but i completely get your interest in the people! for example, i also adore reading and learning about the tudors and the romanovs but only as a part of history and not because i’m such a big fan of the monarchy? lmao if that makes sense.

and like, i lowkey get why the bolsheviks thought they needed to assassinate the whole family but it’s also really sketchy, dude ://

i think i like britain’s history just because it’s so rich and influential, but like we simply can’t ignore the fucked up shit they’ve done through the centuries. so again, i enjoy it but mostly because i love judging them for their actions lmao

and to answer your question, i don’t really know if i have many historical favs? i feel like i enjoy way too many problematic people lmao. nevertheless, the ones i’m most interested in atm are: lenin (shockers), anne boleyn, anne bonny, malcolm x - this list shifts constantly depending on my mood though.

oh shush you, i’m sure your style is bombing based on everything i just read :)

lmao i actually do that sometimes, but mostly in my mother tongue! but i also just love shakespearean insults in english, those are impeccable

and merci beaucoup! good luck with russian; maybe you’ll be able teach me a few phrases in the future :D

ooh what are you studying atm? if you don’t mind sharing, that is.

and me, i’d like to become a psychologist some day, so that’s pretty far from history as well haha but i never want the enthusiasm to die ever and i’m really loving how the two of us can just scream to each other about history in every single ask/answer :D

thank you so much for these beautiful recommendations, i’ll definitely check them out!!

here are some of mine:

books:

- maria stuart by stefan zweig (german author, so it shouldn’t be too hard for you to find it!!)

- red crosses by sasha filipenko (fiction about the stalinist regime)

- the age of light by whitney scharer (historical fiction again lmao; tells the story of photographers lee miller and man ray’s romance in the 30s with little snippets into wwii through lee’s pov; the writing was stunning)

- sapiens by yuval noah harari (basically the history of mankind; so informative and enjoyable, i adored it)

- the real peaky blinders by carl chinn (what the title says, really; the actual gangs of birmingham and their not so shiny careers)

these are the best ones i read in 2020 but i’ll let you know if i remember any of my other reads!!

i also haven’t read any actual books about the 1917 revolution because i haven’t really had the chance to go to the library yet and i’ve been busy doing my research on the internet haha (it’s a fairly new hyperfixation of mine, to be frank). however, i’ll hit you up if i find anything worthwhile <3

documentaries:

- the russian revolution (the title speaks for itself lmao)

- genius of the modern world (3-part docuseries about marx, nietzsche and freud)

- world war ii in colour (lmao just a classic, innit)

- secrets of great british castles

- the last tzars (tho i’m pretty sure you’re quite familiar with this one haha)

- forbidden history

- secrets of the six wives

- anything by lucy worsley, tbh

these are all off the top of my head but again, i’ll let you know if i remember any more!!

oml i apologise for the long message and i hope your week is going well :D

dont apologize for long messages! <3 im always happy to talk to you 

sadly her test was positive UGH which means i have to get myself tested too (today) and if the worst case happens: i´ll have to spend christmas alone in my student flat bc then i obviously cant go home to my family (my grandparents live there..) so yeah, today 14:20 o clock... i have the test :( cross your fingers for me pls huhuhu

thats cool that we have the russian revolution and vicxtorian era as common interest ^^ i read a book recently its called “the ordeal” and its a triology written by alexej tolstoi during the times of the revolution. its a story about two sister and their love interests during the war times and its really good!!! 

oh i barely know anything about the tudors! pls hmu

ah yes.. the cold war... i have to admit im rather interested in the music and sociology of the cold war times but the political stuff is super interesting too! esp as you said from an east european view, so we can talk about that too!

yep. monarchy sucks! i understanbd from like a logical point of view why they shot them all, but the human side of me thinks its just cruel.. i mean yeah tsar nicholas wasnt a good politician but he wasnt a bad person either. but yeah, a difficult topic.. tbh he´s the only romanov im really interested in (i really dislike his wife alexandra tho lmao) hbu? 

leninnn :D i kinda excpected that! i havent really read much about him but he seems to be an interesting person! and who is anne boyd? malcom X yes! im really interested into the civil rights movement as well. I really like martin luther king jr.

englands history really fascinates me, and i honestly cant tell you why... but it is what is is hahhaa! nand duuudeeee omg they fucked so many shit up.. the british are a funny nation. but honestly none is unproblematic and every nation screwed up big time once:D judging is really important when youre intereste din history! like im interested in king george and queen mary but not solely for political reasons, more actually for their personal lives and victorian times and how they were as a couple, but i know... they did bad stuff too!

omg teach me some shakespearean insults pls! i only know a few victorian ones! and a bit of sixties slang :D 

im gonna reblog this and add some russian phrases bc my russian keyboard in on my phone :) but i use duolingo so the sentences are ... really weird lmao

im studying physical geography in Erlangen right now and am in my 7th semester.) im actually writing my bachelor thesis rn UGHHHHHHH

ohhhhh psychology is cool!! im really intersted in it, sadly i cant ever be one bc i suffer from poor mental health too much myself, in fact i have an appointment my therapist in a few minutes haha BUT i think youre super trustworthy and nice and easy to talk to so these are really good qualities for a therapist <3<3<3<3

AHHHHHHHHHHH THANKS!! 

i already read sapiens! its so good! and i know maria stuart by schiller haha but oml i love stefan zweig so imma add it on my list

ok and i will watch ALL of these (except the last tsars bc yeah i already saw it! and liked it ... kinda .. i didnt like the actor they chose for nicky, he didnt remind me of him at all)

i have alot of historical fiction books to recomment too: 

if you like ww2 “a time to live and a time to die”

ww1: “all quiet on the western front”

russian revolution and war time “the ordeal”

“intrige” by robert harris is also good (france 1896)

oh and documentary wise:

they shall not grow old is a coloured ww1 docu!

thank you so much for everything again i love talking to you :) have a nice day <3 (sorry for typos i was in a hurry)

#r #anon #secret santa #nice ppl

[dachi-chan25]

June Reading Wrap Up.

This is the frist time I do this but I intend to keep up with it every month so let's see.

# of books I read in the month: 14

Tempest and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

Raiting: 🌟🌟🌟

Review: I really liked the narrative style and the world building, as well as the magic system and politics but it has no plot, I was waiting for some sort of conflict to arise (there was a lot of set up for it but nope,) so even if I was invested with the characters and the world they lived in nothing much happened so that is why I couldn't give it 5 stars. Also this is part of a series, but I don't think I am intrested in reading the rest if there are more books without plot in it.

A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: I really liked it a lot, a very good read for people that love and have experienced the fandom world, especially artists/writers/cosplayers on a comic-on. The characters were pretty good, and the familiar drama was very intresting to read about. There are very little aspects I didn't like overall it was a very enjoyable read and I totally recommend it.

Apollo is Mine by Mila Young

Raiting: 🌟

Review: I do read erotica/smutty books, and I do enjoy them from time to time (like I don't read them to analyze them or anything) but oh boy. So what drew me in to buy it was that it was a Harem and I love Reverse Harem, but I have come to realize that western authors do RH very differently than asian authors and I don't like it. I had no more expectatives from this book than a fun smutty book, but nope it was so boring for me and the sex scenes were pretty bland so I didn't like it.

A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACoTaR #1) by Sara J Maas

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: At last!! I am so behind when it comes to YA literature cuz I was a pretentious ass when I was in middle/high school so I didn't read any that came out then, and now I am catching up. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought, like I was thinking it was gonna be all rapey (I heard it was very abusive and all that jazz but it wasn't? ?) but nope, like it had some stuff but the guy wasn't the romantic interest and it was somewhat justified. The characters were ok (I like them but I don't love them) but gosh the villian was ridiculous, the curse was so damn specific tho like Feyre was the only one who could have possibly break it and it was kinda silly. Still I liked it and I will definitely continue with the series.

Dread Nation by Justina Irland

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: I was so excited to get to this one and I am so mad that I didn't like it. I mean there was nothing wrong with it, I liked the characters for the most part and some of it I found intresting but as a whole I just didn't enjoy it.

17 Mujeres Premios Nobel de la Ciencia - Helene Merle Beral

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: It was very intresting, I didn't even know half of this women which is a shame because all of them were amazing scentists who fought so hard to have their work recognized and I always love to read their stories.

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: I really love African literature, their authors have such a powerful style, and of course I really loved this book. The need to unify the tribe not by attacking the white colonizers but educating themselves and forming a political front while still upholding their traditions was amazing to read and I definitely recommend this.

Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: It was so good and so very original!!! I'm not gonna spoil anything but the twist in the end changes the way you view the frist part of the book (I mean there is a scene of rape and it's totally fine if you don't wanna read it but most people that have rated this book low hasn't read the whole thing and can't understand the whole point). My fav Beauty and the Beast retelling so far.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee

Raiting:🌟🌟🌟

Review: I was hoping to like it more from what I had heard in the book community everywhere, it was okay I did enjoy it but I don't love it as much as I wish I did. I wanted to shake Monty for being such an asshole like 3/4 of the book but I did like Felicity and Percy a lot. The plot was intresting, I mean very tropey but in a good way.

A Blade so Black by L.L McKinney

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: The cover of this book is completely beautiful, but I did not like the Nightmares and all the plot. The characters were funny (again very cliché, so much that I felt I was reading a fanfic of Alice in Wonderland which I mean maybe it is what the autor was going for and that's ok) and the Buffy references always made me smile, but I will not continue the series cuz I was not invested in the plot or world building at all.

The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: Magical realism is always my jam, and this book was so very intresting. I loved the friendship of the guys and their opinions and memories on Art, god finding out what really was going on was pretty terrifying. I definitely recommend this book.

Malinche by Laura Esquivel

Raiting: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Review: Laura Esquivel's prose is beautiful, every sentence she constructs is beautiful. And it was such a refreshing humanizing empathetic portrayal of a historical figure that is so unfairly hated and viewed as a traitor in the mexican culture. I absolutely adored it.

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Raiting: 🌟 🌟

Reviews: Not the book for me. I loved the diversity of the main cast and the fact that Roshani Chokshi portrayed "La Belle Époque" As something that was beautiful only for colonizers and rich people. But I was really bored through it all and I just couldn't connect or invest myself with the characters so yeah. (I am still so bitter that I didn't liked this, maybe I will re-read it to give it another chance)

#booklr #june wrap up #welp maybe it was not the best month for me to read ya