I am currently working my way through the following books. As I am somewhat vision impaired, I do all of my “reading” via audiobooks.
Publisher’s summary
This vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 – which inspired events that forever changed the European continent – is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea.
Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring 39 individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France – all without destroying itself in the process?
In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of German Empire’s beginning to its defeat in World War I.
This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.
©2021 Katja Hoyer (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
German history – both ancient and more recent – is usually pretty fascinating to me. This particular period of unification into a nation-state is particularly interesting, given the major global conflicts that followed and the longer-term power that Germany now wields in the European Union and the world.
Current Progress: 5%
Publisher’s summary
Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to be immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to observe the suspects at close hand.
©2012 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
I don’t really have a reason for reading this, other than that I have not done so before.
Current progress: 0%
My Wheel of Time re-read efforts charge forward. I have been working through recap and reaction posts for each chapter, of each book, in this very lengthy series. You can find my previous Wheel of Time posts HERE:
The Fires of Heaven is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert Jordan, the fifth book in his series The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on October 15, 1993.
I currently have published posts covering the first thirty-seven chapters and there are fifty-six chapters in total. My current schedule is to publish a new chapter recap every Thursday and Sunday. I probably won’t finish this book until late April or early May.
I have tentative plans to read The Outsiders and Catch-22 in the somewhat near future.
My completed book reviews are HERE:
