book rec time!

[tenlittlebullets]

OMSB. I am only on page sixtysomething, but I command all you French Revolution nerds to get ye hence to your bookseller of choice and buy Vive la Révolution by Mark Steel. It is side-splittingly hilarious, has more perspective than your average history book (and a lot more amusing anecdotes too), and is full of snark about every biased history of the Revolution you've ever stumbled upon at Borders. It is so much love.

(Why yes, I attempted to banish my ennui with shopping therapy. Why do you ask?)

Comments

[and-i.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly second that rec! I picked that book up a while ago because it caught my eye and I keep rereading it because it's so good. I love Mark Steel.

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

And I third it! I was, in fact, just reading it. :D

[cosmicautumn.livejournal.com]

I saw that in a bookstore in Britain back in 2004, but I didn't buy and haven't seen it since. I've read a lot of FR books but they're all kind of dry (except de Toqueville, I guess). I'll have to look for this.

Whenever I'm bored, I go on road trips to the zoo or random Route 66 icons.

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

If shopping therapy doesn't work, why not try an online rp? It's all the fun of human interaction without being face- to- face with someone, and, furthermore, it's not actullay you that people are interacting with (unless you're planning events and things). hogwarts_hocusis a rather fun mutlifandom rpg.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Vive la Révolution is made of win and awesome. ^___^

[fizzylizard.livejournal.com]

I must read it!

Whilst I'm still here, there is a cartoonist (Dylan Meconis alias quirkybird whose work you may find interesting. Lots and lots of revolutionary snark...