Ok, I need a new book.

My list of favorite authors include, but are definitely not limited to:
Agatha Christie (read all of her books numerous times)
Dan Brown
Lillian Jackson Braun (read them all)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare
Classic literature

Mysteries, suspense, action, some romance (not too much - its got to be real! ), classics....

Just finished The Last Templar (wasn't all that impressed) and The Picture of Dorian Gray.... I need new material!

(Oh, favorite book is The Scarlet Pimpernel and all other books by Baroness Orczy - haven't read them??? Please do... its WELL worth it!)

HistorianChick

You got me, bijan.

I owe you a hot dog. (those things are good, by the way!)

The Good Earth.

Check - on my list to read.

rodandy12

Thumbnail on War and Peace.

War and Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HistorianChick

Aww... thanks! I'll go take a peek at that.

But, sadly, I still have the life ambition to read it. Maybe its because I write history textbooks and I shudder to think someone would try and spark note (or thumbnail) my material...

Go figure...

rodandy12

Think of it this way. They usually don't thumbnail unless the publication is of great interest to folks. That is a good thing.

bijan666

hey historianchick . since you write history text books I have to ask you this
how do you deal with popular inaccuracies and propaganda B.S which is fed
to the ignorant masses ? I mean lies such as coulombs discovered America and Jesus
flew to heaven from the cross ( he was probably dumped in the swamp ) and Saddam was about to destroy America , we got him in the nick of time
You got to make a living and survive you know . What do you do ?

Emland

Troll here often?

HistorianChick

LOL!! Emland! Lol!

I'll address the issue, though not the suppositions. I don't believe that its necessary.

Being a writer of history is one of the most amazing, humbling, important, and daunting jobs that I have ever had. It is amazing because I am affecting the next generation of American students with my words. Humbling because those students will not learn what I do not write; and, they will learn what I do write. Important because if we do not learn from history we "are doomed to repeat it." Daunting because there is no possible way that I, as an individual, could possibly begin to write about the entire historical record... nor do I assume that I could.

As I write history, I tend to shy away from certain unreliable sources. I do a lot of research online, but sadly, most of what we find on the internet is just as unreliable. I adore reading wikipedia, but frankly, cannot cite it in my research because of the fact that it can be edited by anyone who deems themselves an expert on the issue. (For example, I was researching the civil rights movement and came across a blatantly racial comment that was obviously not written by the original author.)

Bottom line: history is history. We are the ones that change it. I strive to be one that upholds the integrity of history, good and bad, war and peace, religious and secular.

HistorianChick

Please excuse the grammatical and punctuation errors in that last posting....

That was me trying to be rational and positive rather than irrational and a blast-meister-reddie-giver!!

friend4u178

Hey "J" you know you can edit your post if you wish to correct your grammatical errors.

kochi

What the Bhudda never taught.

Doing Nothing

How to read a book (seriously)

Short history of nearly everything.

Made to stick.

Blink

Confessions of a philosopher.