What are we reading?

[JasonPratt]

I'm more than halfway done with Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth. It's a nice little popular-level narrative history from the arrival of Diocletian (setting up context of Byzantium) onward, mostly focusing on the Emperors and their generals and close relatives plus some patriarchs and popes crossing across the stage occasionally (and similarly high-level leaders of neighboring nation/cultures, naturally). Nothing jumps out as hideously wrong, except I don't think the Syrian (and other eastern) monophysite Christians would have welcomed the new Muslim invaders for the theological reasons the author briefly presents. (Monophysites were, and are, still trinitarian Christians with a high Christology; they would not have appreciated the low or rather non-Christology and simpler monotheism of the new arrivals, who in turn definitely did not find the monophysites kindred theological spirits as the author occasionally remembers to note. ;) )

[trailrunner]

[Sir Slash]

"Nothing Like It In The World-- The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869" by Stephen Ambrose. Hope it's not a Train-Wreck.  ;D

[BanzaiCat]

You'll just be chugging along, and then the story might get derailed.

[Gusington]

Just started Beyond the Northlands - Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.

[mirth]

"Nothing Like It In The World-- The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869" by Stephen Ambrose. Hope it's not a Train-Wreck.  ;D

I have this somewhere. Don't think I ever finished. Ambrose can be hit or miss for me.

[Staggerwing]

Just started Beyond the Northlands - Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.

Oooh... shiny!

[Gusington]

It's a quick read, I will be done soon. Want me to ship it to you? You'd frickin' love it.

[trailrunner]

"Nothing Like It In The World-- The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869" by Stephen Ambrose. Hope it's not a Train-Wreck.  ;D

I read that about 10 years ago.

[Sir Slash]

Don't tell me how it comes-out. I'm betting on the Mormons.

[mirth]

Don't tell me how it comes-out. I'm betting on the Mormons.

To do what?

[BanzaiCat]

Roll over and become the 45th state.

[Staggerwing]

It's a quick read, I will be done soon. Want me to ship it to you? You'd frickin' love it.

Deal!

[Gusington]

^PM me your address...(I had it for our Secret Santa but have since deleted it).

[bayonetbrant]

I'm working on The Clockwork Universe right now.  Picked it up at the library when I took Bayonette over there just to get out of the house for a bit.