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ReadingTheDots@social.vivaldi.net 9 hours ago @bookstodon @NightDrake I'm not reading his books because he died. I'm going to read more of them because I liked the first one I read, and I totally forgot about the other nonfiction books he wrote. I think each will be a good fit for me because they're each relevant to history.
NightDrake@dragonscave.space 9 hours ago
@ReadingTheDots Ah, good. I hope you enjoy them. I don't read much nonfiction at all. I read to escape. It did sort of sound from the post like your reason for reading them was because he died. @bookstodon
@NightDrake @bookstodon I read his first book in the summer of 2024, and then I think I just got to reading other things and didn't return to him.
Yes, we read different genres. I switched to reading mostly nonfiction a few years ago, and I find most of it totally enthralling. There is so much that the history books did not cover when I was in school, so now, I have a yearning to read as much of it as I can.