Downloaded Tess free from Amazon so am more interested in finishing Mann's The Magic Mountain (which is not free) lol.
Enjoying Peter Heather's Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. Restarted after a long hiatus, and his argument on the Gothic invasion is pretty exciting; history IS a lot like a detective work; cogent reasoning is a must.
And reading this part really made me long for purchasing loeb edition of Ammianus Marcellinus lol(I do have the Penguin pbk edition, methinks?).
Also enjoying Margaret MacMillan's http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Games-History-Library-Chronicles/dp/0812979966/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408579853&sr=1-4&keywords=margaret+macmillan
It's a short book, but a must for every reader interested in history; she comments on every aspect of writing and reading history, so it's pretty useful.
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