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[Serge]

Good evening (here in France) everyone and, first of all, thanks to the person who invited me to join this group. My name is Serge, I work as a translator from Persian and Russian languages, I hope soon I'll be able to translate from Arabic too. My interest to history comes from the fact that I was educated as an historian, although eventually I became a translator. I am mostly interested in the contemporary history of Middle Eastern and North African countries, Iran, the history of Islamic political movements and other Middle East and Islam - related themes. History of pre-Islamic civilizations and modern history of Latin American countries are other areas of my interests.
Thanks again for inviting me to this group,

Peace.

[Alisa]

Welcome Serge and Peter, we are glad to have you as members. There are many discussion threads here and we hope you explore them and participate in the conversations and book recommendations.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Jeffrey Toobin

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Thanks and glad you joined us.

[Bill]

Hello History Book Club,

I am a professional theatre historian and an amateur military historian. I look forward to learning more about the group. Thank you!

Bill Carroll

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Welcome, Bill.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. It also helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how a book you might mention should look:

by G.J. Meyer

Please take a moment to skim over the information available below

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If you have any questions, that's what us moderators are here for. We look forward to your contribution.

Jerome

[Bill]

Jerome,

Thank you for the good counsel I will make use of your tips and hints in the future.

Sincerely,

Bill Carroll

[Dawn]

Hello there. As you were, I was instructed to introduce myself. I like to read, but don't get the chance to do it as often as I like. That's why I like the idea of this club. To read reviews and get perspectives that I otherwise never would. Thank you for accepting me into the group. Historical writing, in any form, has always intrigued me. I look forward to broadening my book reading horizons here.

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Welcome to our group, Dawn! We have many different topics being discussed here so please feel free to explore and jump in.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post. Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Anthony Everitt

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[Katy]

Welcome to Serge, Peter, Bill, and Dawn. LIke Dawn I joined this group to get the different perspectives on books and it is such a welcoming group and never once have I felt out of place.

[Dawn]

Thank you!!

[Jill H.]

A warm welcome to all of you who joined us today......Dixie, Lief, Serge, Peter, Bill, and Dawn. This is the place for the history lover...great discussions and book recommendations. Please take some time to browse the threads and jump right in. Most of all, enjoy!!

[Jessie]

Hi, my name is Jessie and I'm 18. I've always loved historical fiction, since elementary school when I discovered The royal diaries. I especially like memoirs and autobiographies,especially those of zany fun people like Zappa,or Pamela des barres. I think this group will be a lot of fun,and I thank you for having me

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Greg - how are you - you have given us so much information I do not know where to start.

First thank you for your interest in our group. We welcome you to become involved and post in our discussions. But I need to do a little housekeeping on your post because unfortunately we do not allow any self promotion whatsoever.

So I will repost it here minus those segments. The missing segments which violate our rules and guidelines will be deleted and will show up as ....

Also we do have rules for citations which you need to become familiar with and we are here to help you do that. OK, let me get started first on reposting your introduction.

Greg in introducing himself said the following:

My favorite historians are Susan Wise Bauer, first, then Nick Tosches, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Dorlich, others. I admire and read another several dozen.

My favorites series are:

1. The Landmark Series; read all of Herodotus, 1/3 of way thru Thucydides, Strassler is fantastic; the essays wonderful.

2. Loeb Library; in particular Athenaus, "The Learned Banqueteers".

I like historical fiction if it is well written: James Ellroy's multi-volume history of LA and 60s crime/politics; Whillock's "The Religion"; All of Mary Renault; Steven Pressfield; Michael Sharra
"Kiler Angels", many more.

Homer in the Fagles translation, for vivid life, Dante in the first Penquin edition, for hysterical comedy in lakes of burning blood--both I count as historians.

Rebecca Goldstein, "Betraying Spinoza", and "The Courtier and the Heretic", Matthew Stewart, are excellent intros to Spinoza the man and his times. I have other to recommend, and they shape a learning path to tackling Spinoza's works directly.

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Greg, let me start right here and show you how your citations must look. You can type normally just like you did and simply add all of them at the bottom of your post. You must add the bookcover, the author's photo and the author's link when these elements are available.

For your authors, you must cite them as well - if just citing them without a book - you add the author's photo and the author's link which is their name in linkable text.

First here are the authors that you mentioned:

Susan Wise Bauer

Nick Tosches

Barbara W. Tuchman

In goodreads, the above author is classified as Barbara W. Tuchman for future reference.

Dorlich is not showing up.

Your Series:

by Herodotus

by Thucydides

You mention Strassler:(he needs to be cited, there is not photo, so you add the author's name in linkable text and then (no photo)

Robert B. Strassler (no photo)

[Greg]

Bentley! What a gentle advisory. I must have seemed a rube lumbering in. Will learn the formats and emulate my betters. All the best Greg

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Greg - how are you - you have given us so much information I do not know where to start.

First thank you for your interest in our group. We welcome you to become involved and post in our discussions. But I need to do a little housekeeping on your post because unfortunately we do not allow any self promotion whatsoever.

So I will repost it here minus those segments. The missing segments which violate our rules and guidelines will be deleted and will show up as ....

Also we do have rules for citations which you need to become familiar with and we are here to help you do that. OK, let me get started first on reposting your introduction.

Greg in introducing himself said the following:

My favorite historians are Susan Wise Bauer, first, then Nick Tosches, Barbara Tuchman, Edward Dorlich, others. I admire and read another several dozen.

My favorites series are:

1. The Landmark Series; read all of Herodotus, 1/3 of way thru Thucydides, Strassler is fantastic; the essays wonderful.

2. Loeb Library; in particular Athenaus, "The Learned Banqueteers".

I like historical fiction if it is well written: James Ellroy's multi-volume history of LA and 60s crime/politics; Whillock's "The Religion"; All of Mary Renault; Steven Pressfield; Michael Sharra
"Kiler Angels", many more.

Homer in the Fagles translation, for vivid life, Dante in the first Penquin edition, for hysterical comedy in lakes of burning blood--both I count as historians.

Rebecca Goldstein, "Betraying Spinoza", and "The Courtier and the Heretic", Matthew Stewart, are excellent intros to Spinoza the man and his times. I have other to recommend, and they shape a learning path to tackling Spinoza's works directly.

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Greg, let me start right here and show you how your citations must look. You can type normally just like you did and simply add all of them at the bottom of your post. You must add the bookcover, the author's photo and the author's link when these elements are available.

For your authors, you must cite them as well - if just citing them without a book - you add the author's photo and the author's link which is their name in linkable text.

First here are the authors that you mentioned:

Susan Wise Bauer

Nick Tosches

Barbara W. Tuchman

In goodreads, the above author is classified as Barbara W. Tuchman for future reference.

Dorlich is not showing up.

Your Series:

by Herodotus

by Thucydides

You mention Strassler:(he needs to be cited, there is no photo, so you add the author's name in linkable text and then (no photo)

Robert B. Strassler (no photo)

You mentioned the Loeb Library:

by Athenaeus (no photo)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Greg continued:

Your Historical Fiction

by James Ellroy

by Tim Willocks (no photo)

by Michael Shaara (no photo)

Also authors:

Steven Pressfield

Mary Renault

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Greg continued

Your Historical Fiction

by Homer

by Tacitus

by Dante Alighieri

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Greg continued:

Greg said the following - I have removed those sections which are in violation of our rules and guidelines.

My primary passion is the originals. I slowly teach my self Attic Greek, because the average American small farmer in the 1700s could read and write Greek, grew up with Cicero and Xenophon and Aristophanes and look what those farmers accomplished. Loeb is indespensible for this.

I've read hundreds of first-person accounts by average soldiers from World War II, mostly, and a lot of serious and popular histories, especially naval engagements in the South Pacific.

My birth father served on a carrier, my adopted father was a medic under Patton, all the way from the hedgerows to Berlin. He had one weekend off the entire war, to a repple-depple in the Contentin; spent it patching up minor wounds. He was reluctant to talk about it; he became a tenured Professor of Psychology at UMKC and was stoic. But once in a while we'd get some story: this tanker screaming at him from the hatch to (violation of rules and guidelines).......................................................................................................

I love history. (NO PROMOTION ALLOWED)..........................................................................................................

I read close. ........................ I used to Illustrate for The New Yorker, won a CLIO then was a CLIO judge. And for 20 years I've been Chief Engineer and Project Manager for complex info systems, for clients like Yale's Climate Institute, and The Garrison Institute, The Dalai Lama's fave contemplative retreat center (I engineered and manage their site and reservations systems).

I have serious and deteriorating movement disorders, take Sinemet, Mirapex, Selegeline, and 8 other drugs so I can function. Without these modern drugs I would be a gnarled-up, tremoring, dizzy, vomiting, nursing home patient at 57.

I have three grown daughters and wonderful wife and they make sure I bob to the top. If I ever succumb to morose or worse they know how to make me bob to the top.

.......................................................................................................... Not for squeamish, esp FB. My children are wildly successful scholarship students at UMASS Amherst, and FIT; the oldest is an executive secretary to a diamond company owner, after 7 years manging two of the most important hotels in America. My children remind me everyday what history means, why it matters, and who makes history. Who and what heals us. Tikkun Olam.

Compassion, and mindfulness, and ferocity about truth and liberty. That's what history teaches.

Other books you mentioned that need to be cited:

by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Other Authors:

Matthew Stewart (no photo)

Tacitus

Livy

Suetonius

Pliny the Younger

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

@Greg:

a) Before posting the next time, we would like you to visit the Mechanics of the Board thread and practice citations. Here is the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

We feel you need to work on the format that is acceptable on our site. We know that each group is varied and different but we have very high standards and requirements that we are very willing to help you with. You can practice right on the thread above.

Here are our rules and guidelines:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

Here is our orientation:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

I hope all of the above helps you and whatever we can do to help you learn the ropes - we are here to guide you. Sorry that you have so many health issues - it cannot be easy.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Greg wrote: "Bentley! What a gentle advisory. I must have seemed a rube lumbering in. Will learn the formats and emulate my betters. All the best Greg"

Thanks Greg.

[John]

Dear fellow history buffs,
I live in Australia and fly helicopters for a living. I have been a keen reader of history for quite some time with a primary focus is on military affairs although subjects such as exploration, politics and cultural, social issues also have their place.
I also play board wargames and often find I am reading and gaming the same theme. For example the game "No Retreat" (based on the Russian front in WW2) led to reading Michael Jones and Jason Mark
Pretty much any period is fair game, Ancient Greece, the Punic Wars, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, World War One and Two, the Cold War and more.
It is fascinating to place oneself in a time and place and try to imagine what it may have been like to have been there. This can be a bit depressing at times although at least this has me further appreciating life in our modern and technological society.
Les Carlyon
Over the years a few books have stood out and deserve mentioning such as
Robin Lane Fox
Norman F. Cantor
Kim MacQuarrie
Robert Hughes
Shelby Foote
Antony Beevor
Rick Atkinson
Martin Middlebrook
Oh, there is so much good reading available it is impossible to do it justice. I am in awe of the dedication of the authors who clearly take years to meticulously put these works together. There is only one problem really...
I need more time.
Thanks for reading.
Regards
John Gordon

[Jill H.]

A warm welcome, John, to the place for all things history. I think we all have your problem.....so many books, so little time!!!

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Anthony Shadid

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Let me call attention to a couple of things that you included in your introduction which need to be remembered when posting book citations. If there is no author photo, there is no need to show the avatar, just the author's link followed by: (no photo). Additionally, all book citations should be at the end of the text for easier reading and consistency.
You have the citations down quite well but we ask that you put the word "by" between the book cover and the author's photo/link.

Thanks and glad you joined us.

[Jill H.]

Welcome Jessie. We are glad that you joined us.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Anthony Shadid

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2.........

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[Katy]

Welcome Jessie, Greg, and John. Glad to have your here, and I look forward to sharing thoughts on history with you.

[Diane-OP]

So, I'm introducing myself - First name: Diane

I'm looking forward to following more of these threads - I enjoyed history in school, but find that I am reading more history now than I did then. I wasn't a formal history scholar..... (you won't boot me from the group will you?)

Lately I've found myself reading more and more about the home front during WWII. I have read admiration for both Winston Churchill and FDR - a complicated relationship there for sure!

I love Doris Kearns Goodwin - she probably got me started on the WWII era with her book No Ordinary Time - and I've followed her into the family stories of the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, the Civil War and even into baseball.....

I also love to ready about the time of Shakespeare and the British Isles - hate to confess how many books I have on the history of London..... pretty much if it's about London or the UK, I'm there - whether it's straight history or historical fiction. (I know - there's a different group for historical fiction..... :-)

Thanks!
Diane

[Lily]

Hi, my name is Jeremy Roberts. I am a high school student and an avid reader, with a long love affair with history.
I love to read about military history and the heroic escapades of all around the world.
I am an aspiring writer and love a good debate.

[Jill H.]

A warm welcome,Jeremy. It is always nice to have a student's perspective on history.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by William L. Shirer


More information:
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If you have any questions, please ask any of the moderators. And enjoy!!

[Jill H.]

Welcome Diane from one Anglophile to another. We are glad you joined us. Please note at the bottom of this post there are some issues regarding citations to which I want to call your attention.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Oscar Wilde

More information:
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If you have any questions, please ask any of the moderators. And enjoy!!

Anytime you mention a book or an author, the citation needs to be placed after the text. The authors and book that you noted in your introduction should be posted as shown below:


William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Franklin D Roosevelt (no photo)

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Dawn, Jessie, John, Greg, Diane, Jeremy, welcome to the group.

[Finnella]

I apologize for waiting so long after joining to post an introduction; my schedule also meant that I missed the wonderful reading and discussion for May.

Anyway, I'm from the U.S.; I've been interested in Ancient history for a long time. (I was a Latin major in ages past.) I'm also interested in the Middle Ages. I homeschool my younger son, so I've become quite interested in filling my gaps about history of the United States and world history of the past few hundred years.

[Jill H.]

Glad to see you here on the Introduction thread, Finnella. I don't believe I've ever known someone who took Latin as a major......very interesting.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by William L. Shirer

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...............

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...............

and the orientation to get you started:
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If you have any questions, please ask any of the moderators. And enjoy!!

[Alisa]

Welcome Finnella, glad to have you in the group. Browse the threads, there are many discussions happening simultaneously including book discussions which commonly are staged over a couple of months. Join in wherever you have an interest. If you need a hand or have a question, any of the moderators are happy to oblige.

[Katy]

Welcome, Finnella, Jeremy, and Diane. I am positive you will find some interesting discussions here.

Finnella we do have a folder on Ancient History, check it out and add your thoughts. We look forward to hearing more from you.

Jeremy I know that our Military History folders generate a lot of interest, check them out.

Diane we have just started Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR & the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II. That might be a WWII read that interests you.

Glad to have you all aboard.

by Joseph E. Persico

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Welcome Jessie, John, Greg, Diane, Jeremy and Finnella. Who would have thought there were so many history buffs! I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.

[Kimberly]

Hello, History book club. I live in Colorado. My real interest in history is more cultural and social, not military or political. Not sure how well I'll fit- my history interests are mostly American/European, with a special love for all things British. My most recent reads have been (have no idea how to underline in a post):Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard, Isaac's Storm and Devil in the White City by Eric Larson, A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, and Blood Feud:the Hatfields and the McCoys by Lisa Alther. Would love to start on Churchill next. Looking forward to seeing where the group goes.
Regards, Kimberly

[Jill H.]

Welcome to the place for all things history, Kimberly. We are glad you joined us.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books and authors you mentioned should look:

by Candice Millard
& by Erik Larson
by Walter Lord
by Lisa Alther (no photo)
Winston Churchill

More information:
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[Janet]

Hello all, My name is Janet and I live in Florida with husband and 2 sons left at home plus dog and five cats. Will soon have Peruvian exchange student living with us also. Love reading almost anything and belong to 2 book clubs here in Tallahassee. Dreadful history classes in high school that improved vastly in college and then discovered HF and that opened up the whole subject. Love HF and non-fiction history also. Hope to spend retirement traveling the world with piles of books by my side.

[Sharon]

Libby wrote: " I just completed a book titled, "Bitter Scent: The Case of L'Oreal, Nazis and the Arab Boycott" by Michael Bar-Zohar, for the "Book Safari to the Middle East" reading challenge. This book may be of interest to you."

Thanks, Libby. I'll check that out!

[Jill H.]

Welcome Janet to our truly international book club. I hope you will find lots here to pique your interest. Questions?.......ask any of the moderators. And enjoy!!!!

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Finnella, Kimberly and Janet, welcome to the group.

[Alisa]

Welcome Janet and Kimberly! Glad you found the group and decided to join. There are a lot of threads with discussions and book recommendations that appeal to a wide range of interests. Please explore and enjoy! If you have any questions, any of the moderators are happy to assist.

[Alisa]

Welcome Andrea, we are glad to have you as a member.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Jeffrey Toobin

More information:
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
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Thanks and glad you joined us.

[Katy]

Another welcome to Andrea, Janet, and Kimberly. We have many different threads and discussions here. I know that I haven't quite read all of them yet. Always fun to discover a new one. Look around and I look forward to your thoughts and comments.

[Jill H.]

Hello to Andrea and Janet. If you love history, any kind of history, you are in the right place. Please browse the threads and jump right into the book recommendations/discussions. If you have any questions, just ask a moderator.

[Tom]

My apologies, if this is a misplaced post. I was invited to a book discussion, and I'm wondering if these discussions are simply on the threads, or scheduled voice discussions. Thanks for any help for a newbie.

Tom

[Alisa]

Tom, the discussions are online discussions only. We send out notifications for all book discussions to give everyone the chance to participate. We do ask that you respond using the mechanism in the invitation to let us know if you will be reading along.

This is the intro thread, so in the future feel free to post questions like this to our 'ask a moderator' thread, or send any of us a message. found here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks!

[Tom]

Thanks, Alisa. Will do.

Tom

[Nathania]

Hello, my name is Nathania. I'm Boston Massachusetts. I don't have a particular favorite time in history. I love reading historical fiction, biographies, and autobiographies.

[Alisa]

Welcome Nathania, we are glad to have you as a member. There should be a lot here to your liking. Please browse the threads.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link after all of the text of your post at the bottom of the post . Placement at the bottom of the post calls the reader's attention to the book and/or author and increases the readability of your post. This is how books you mention should look:

by Jeffrey Toobin

More information:
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[Rowena]

Hello everyone,

My name is Rowena and I'm a history enthusiast! I live in Vancouver, BC. I grew up in the UK and Africa so history from those areas interests me the most. I'm slowly branching out into other areas of history so I'm really excited to be a part of this bookclub. Thanks for having me here:)

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Andrea, Tom, Nathania, and Rowena, welcome to the group.