Monthly Bookpost, January 2017

[admnaismith]

2017 is my tenth year of writing monthly book posts, and my seventh in going through Great Books Through History. This year will focus on the first part of the 19th century, with literature by Jane austen, the Brontes and Balzac; the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Hegel (both out-consumed by hume); the history of Guizot and Tocqueville; science by

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[starcat_jewel]

Oh, you're getting into the Benjamin January books! I adore this series, although hearing them described as "Regency" made me double-take -- the period may be the same, but the setting and the feel of the books is emphatically not

[admnaismith]

Fever Season, you mean? I'll be at that one this month, I expect.

I would never expect a depiction of the life of POC in pre-civil war American Louisiana to be anything but horrific.