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History book club book for November. So of course I‘m starting early. And yes I know hindsight is 20/20… but have you ever read a history book and just spent 70% of the time shouting WHY?!?! and the remaining 30% googling the words used?

Because historically, people in power were big dumb.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Almost finished the tagged for another #14books14weeks @TheHeartlandBookFairy
Starting Atalanta now

What are you reading?

I don't usually read books about history. That's a habit I'm trying to change, but I still often struggle to maintain my focus enough to remember names, dates, and other facts. Luckily for me, this book made it easy for me to stay mentally engaged. It used narrative flourish, excerpts from letters, and even poetry to paint a vivid portrait of the time and the key players involved and related it to relevant current events.

My first time reading a history of the EIC and further erodes British romanticism of their plunder.

In an Indian history kick at present. Details the rise of the East India company in the 1700‘s when the Mughals had grown weak and the Banker caste started to finance the Company as a force of stability. Only issue the company was not a government it was a corporation dedicated to making profits normal at the expense of those they found themselves ruling. Hence the government came to resemble a Anarchy of corruption and exploitation.

I must be missing studying cause I ended up coming out of Waterstones today with these heavy duty chunksters! 😬

1. Tagged
2. Only a couple of books by Mahatma Gandhi
3. I have, and it does not agree with me. 🤢🤢🤢

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New books haul!

An interesting and detailed story of the British East India company before the British state intervened. I now know a lot of new ways of torturing and killing people, some of which I will try to erase from my memory 🙈😟

Do you guys mend? I try to become better at it, and find listening to audiobooks make it a lot less boring. Here I am trying to learn the ladder stitch to mend a favorite blanket, while learning about the British East India company 🤓

While well researched and detailed, maybe too detailed, the continuous stream of Indian names becomes numbing after a time, like the book is written in a foreign language. The story becomes confusing because the names begin to sound the same. If you want to read this, I definitely recommend audiobook, the Indian names and places can be quite tongue twisting. 3💥💥💥

Book III #24B4Monday
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#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
1. I'm reading way to many books at the moment; The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, Delivering on the Promise by Rich Delorenzo, 100 Bradbury Short Stories, The Collected Works of Shakespeare and Heimskringla by Snorre ?
2. Both.
3. I think "The Meadow" by Ray Bradbury

I‘ll be ringing in the new year with this book about how the East India Company overran the Mughal Empire. I found it on Barack Obama‘s 2019 list of favorite books and was intrigued!

Someone has rightly said that truth can be stranger than fiction. This classic by William Dalrymple is a must to understand how a private joint stock holding company brought the entire Mughal empire to its knees, bits by bits. Really gripping writing to understand East India Company's conquest of India.
#TheAnarchy
#WilliamDalrymple
#IndianHistory

Looking forward to reading this book on how the East India Company managed to get so big and why it subsequently collapsed. Rather rubbish photo of William Dalrymple because I was right at the back of the hall🙄