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Despite my best efforts to completely screw up my sleep patterns, a five-hour afternoon nap and eight solid hours' sleep last night mean I'm pretty much functional today, greatly to my surprise.
Books! arrived yesterday from Amazon. Thirteen of them. They were supposed to arrive a hell of a lot closer to my birthday, but I'm not complaining. I can read them when I've finished cataloguing this library (611 books as of yesterday, and still not done)...
...Well, actually, I've already started one. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation, by Robert Gildea. Gildea is very accessible, for a historian, and his chosen topics are pleasantly crunchy and thought-provoking. I've had a fascination for WWII France ever since reading Marcus Binney's The Women Who Lived For Danger: Women Agents of SOE in WWII when I was fifteen - exacerbated by getting M.R.D. Foote's A History of the SOE in France* out of the library the following year - so Gildea is helping me scratch my modern history itch.
It strikes me that I possibly tell Livejournal too much about my life and habits. What do you think?
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*Foote is the historian when it comes to the Special Operations Executive. Measured, thoughtful, readable, comprehensive - and sadly, his 1962 book is horrendously expensive, otherwise I would have a copy as the most prized ornament of my own private library.
Books! arrived yesterday from Amazon. Thirteen of them. They were supposed to arrive a hell of a lot closer to my birthday, but I'm not complaining. I can read them when I've finished cataloguing this library (611 books as of yesterday, and still not done)...
...Well, actually, I've already started one. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation, by Robert Gildea. Gildea is very accessible, for a historian, and his chosen topics are pleasantly crunchy and thought-provoking. I've had a fascination for WWII France ever since reading Marcus Binney's The Women Who Lived For Danger: Women Agents of SOE in WWII when I was fifteen - exacerbated by getting M.R.D. Foote's A History of the SOE in France* out of the library the following year - so Gildea is helping me scratch my modern history itch.
It strikes me that I possibly tell Livejournal too much about my life and habits. What do you think?
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*Foote is the historian when it comes to the Special Operations Executive. Measured, thoughtful, readable, comprehensive - and sadly, his 1962 book is horrendously expensive, otherwise I would have a copy as the most prized ornament of my own private library.
