HELP ME, Y'ALL

[esmenet]

My dear friends and relations, it is That Time Of The Year again. And by That Time Of The Year, I mean that these twenty nonfiction books scattered around me that I haven't read yet and leftoverresearchquarterly  are clearly not enough to get my nerdly/writerly synapses going again and I NEED NONFICTION RECS LIKE BURNING.

(Also, I adore reading other people's research notes. Or notes about research. Or posts like this, with all the awesome comments.)


Nonfiction/non-music podcast recs would be nice, too. I love the history of the Roman Empire, but when I can, off the top of my head, name more than twenty rulers of Rome, their good points, their bad points, and their causes and suspected causes of death, it's probably time to find a podcast about ancient China or something instead.

Comments

[pseudo_tsuga]

This is Your Brain Music by Daniel J. Levitin is a great guide to how neuroscience and music go together but though avoid the sequel. Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes is a good non-academic introduction to Russia. The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch is incredibly dense and not the best-written but very thorough. I stalled about midway but I'm going to try to finish it later this summer. I feel like I should know more but I just had a final today so my brain is shorted out.

I really Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. It's a humorous weekyl quiz show on the news on NPR.