Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back! If you haven’t read my previous blog post Reading in the Time of Corona – you can click on the link and have a read. Basically I muse what kind of texts (books, audiobooks, comics, manga, magazines) one should look for and what to avoid like the plague. 😀 This is the continuation of that text in which I’m going to give a few lots and lots reading recommendations. Apparently. 😀
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Tags: A Million Years in a Day, A Ruin of Shadows, Becky Chambers, Ben Aaronovitch, Catherine Hanley, David Mogo Godhunter, Dead Famous, Edwin Weaver, Face Paint: The Story of Makeup, fiction, Gabriel Rodriguez, Greg Jenner, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, Keiko Series, Kwame Mbalia, L. D. Lewis, LeVar Burton, LeVar Burton Reads, Lex Legis, Life on Air, Lila Zauali, Lisa Eldridge, Locke and Key, Makana, Matilda, Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World, Mike Brooks, mona eltahawy, non-fiction, P. Djeli Clark, Parker Bilal, Peter Frankopan, R. F. Kuang, Raffaela Sarti, Rebecca Roanhorse, Rivers of London, S. A. Chakraborty, Sir David Attenborough, Small Spaces, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tad Williams, Tanja Radman, The Daevabad Trology, The Expanse, The Hobbit, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, The New Silk Roads, The Popp War, The Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls, The Silk Roads, The Sixt World, the usual suspects, The War of the Flowers, Tolkien, Tristan Strong, Vita di casa, You're Dead to Me
Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back to my blog! I hope you had a nice summer, that you’re ready for autumn and some cooler weather. Instead of the usual instalment of Nessa reads & reviews, today I’m going to write about something else. In case I didn’t bore you to death with this on Twitter (shameless plug – you can find me @NarratriceNessa 🙂 ) I recently graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Split. I’m a newly minted mag. educ. hist. et mag. educ. angl.; which basically means that I’m a certified teacher of history and English. The final step toward my master’s degree consisted of writing a thesis in my chosen field of study and the thesis’ defence in front of a tripartite board of faculty professors.
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Tags: Croatian history, Dalmatia, early modern history, Filozofski fakultet u Splitu, History, Islam Latinski, Islam Latinski in the Venetian cadestre of 1709, Islam Latinski na mletačkom katastru iz 1709. godine, master's thesis, Military Frontier, Ottoman Empire, The Historian's Apprentice: The Birth of a Thesis, Triplex Confinium, Venetian Republic
Post se neće baviti povijesti umjetnosti, a bogme nisam falila naslov 😛 ako ste na to pomislili. Jednostavno zadnjih nekoliko tjedana na mom čitalačkom repertoaru nalaze se romani koje književni kritičari i ostali ljubitelji svrstavanja stvari u određene žanrove nazivaju povijesnom fikcijom. Da preciziram čitam povijesne krimiće, još preciznije krimiće iz antičkog Rima. Kad bi mogla naći krimiće koje se događaju u antičkoj Grčkoj vjerojatno bi i njih čitala, zapravo ne vjerojatno nego sigurno. Jednostavno volim krimiće, dobro volim krimiće ako su dobro napisani (kao i sve knjige uostalom). S krimićima uvijek možeš radit dvije stvari: uživat u uzbuđenju čitanja i čekat kraj dok se otkrije počinitelj/ica zločina ili uživat u čitanju i pokušat pogodit počinitelja/icu prije kraja. Ponekad uspijem u ovom drugome, ponekad se i ne trudim, jednostavno uživam u čitanju.
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Tags: Literature, Povijesna fikcija, povijesne knjige serije i filmovi, povijest, Sulejman Veličanstveni, umjetnost