Historians Reading for Fun

An account about being a historian reading for fun. All views belong to my anonymous creator, because no one would ever pay for this 📚

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

I genuinely enjoy when people think being “studying magic” in an academic context means being a wizard. Buddy I wish

[JACK ⚧︎ @lithophage]

"texan" who doesnt know what a kolache is....this is literally our mecca

[gel @gelsbelovedfitz]

I joined a 20 classic romance challenge on storygraph, and here are all the books in the challenge.....

[Magister Johannes Josephus @nassaujuan]

They still do. Here are four of the best recent books I’ve read about the lives of medieval people:

[Rachel Christine @RachelXReads]

In addition to Project Gutenberg, the following are also helpful, free resources, especially for reading classic novels:

Standard Ebooks - use to download carefully and aesthetically formatted public-domain classics

HathiTrust - use to find and download library-verified scans of some rare texts and historical collections

Internet Archive - use to find scans of old, out-of-print books

Google Books - use to find and download scans of first editions or lesser-known works (use the "Full View" filter)

Wikisource - use to access and read public-domain primary sources and historical documents

Kindle Store (Amazon) - use to download free Kindle editions of many public-domain classics

Bookshare - use to gain access to a library of digital texts in accessible formats for those with verified print-related disabilities

LibriVox - use for free audiobook versions of public-domain classics

Libby and Hoopla - (check to see if your local library offers these) use to borrow ebooks or audiobooks of both modern and classic novels

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

Every family has that one Thanksgiving dish that no one else would understand.

For my family, it is The Mold.

The Mold was discovered somewhere in the depths of a 1950s cookbook or clipped out of the newspaper by my grandmother - my 4'8" little firecracker Mimi, the glue that held my family together.

The Mold is an unholy blend of lemon Jell-O, cream cheese and grated lemon rind that MUST be served in a Bundt pan.

It tastes like a lemon creamsicle, which is fantastic, but it has the texture of congealed snot mixed with wood shavings.

It is unequivocally a dessert, but it does not get relegated to the dessert table with the mere pies - it is served in a place of honor next to the turkey like some deranged albino cranberry sauce.

I am the only person in my family who doesn't like it, but I eat it, because Mimi expected everyone to love The Mold, and you don't disappoint Mimi.

We lost Mimi in 2021, and holidays haven't been the same since.

I never told her that I don't like The Mold.

My sister took over the sacred duty of making The Mold, and today her daughter - my 4 year old niece - learned how to make it.

A third generation of Mold makers has arisen.

The location of Thanksgiving dinner has changed, the attendees vary, other side dishes come and go, but The Mold remains unchanged.

Tomorrow I will take my obligatory piece and place it next to my turkey, and as the lemon Jell-O mingles with the sage I will eat it and think of Mimi.

Maybe I'll even learn to love it.

Miss you, Mimi. I hope you're having The Mold in Heaven. ❤️

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Best part of any research project is the construction of a new book fort

[َ @gir1genius]

HAPPY OCTOBER!!!!!!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Illegally downloading a copy of your own article and other academic tales

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Footnotes are for referencing, adding additional detail where relevant, and waging shadow war against your enemies

[Cera Gibson @CeraGibson]

He ate that up so fucking bad. I haven’t seen a read like this since that little blond dude from one democrat vs 20 republicans.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Re-reading your writing

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

things that feel sooo good when you’re a little tipsy
-sending a flirty text
-eating salt n’ vinegar kettle chips
-hearing your friend say “can i be
mean for a second?”
-doing finger-guns
-whitney houston’s “i wanna dance
with somebody”

[🇺🇸Jerry Mander🇺🇦 @realpublicius]

They removed the web page for Ira Hayes, one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Classifying babies as guilty combatants in order to justify eradicating them, and arguing that an entire population of 2 million people (or however many are left) are legitimate targets for slaughter, was the foundation of the Nazi holocaust and every war crime in history:

[CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) @ColumbiaBDS]

BREAKING: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS JUST SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, AND REVOKED DEGREES FROM 22 STUDENTS FOR PROTESTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Obsessed with the fact that Art Garfunkel (of Simon & Garfunkel) kept a reading diary from 1968 to 2013, during which time he read 1,195 books—among them War & Peace, Wuthering Heights, all seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time and the entire Random House Dictionary.

[Historians Reading for Fun @HistoriansRead]

No hate, but this quote is like an erotic YA writer defending erotic YA books…like, yes, of course, he of all people would have this position? This isn’t a gotcha or an astounding take, he was a famous pulp fiction author?

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

@JScripko "Reading requires work"

(does Thor face) But does it really?