GenreLand discussion

Fiction or nonfiction, take your pick. You could even go with "nonfiction" of such dubious scholarship that it is most likely fiction, if that's your jam. I still need to read Samnium and the Samnites, so that will likely be on my March reading list.

I have quite a few that will work for this theme. My first choice was A Thousand Days in Tuscany where the world feels as old as time.

I have now added Greece with Talking With Zeus: My Year in a Greek Garden. I enjoyed it and someone who knows about plants and gardening would definitely enjoy it more.

#3 in Ancient Cultures -- Israel -- The Dead Sea Cipher. A bit of fluff that involved archaeolgy and travels in Syria and Lebanon, but half of it was in Israel.

I read Horses of Fire- I have an advanced reader copy for it since it comes out this July. I tried and put down a bunch of Greek myth retellings but this one stuck- I really liked it! It's set during the Trojan War and focuses on Andromache. It's more historical fiction than fantasy; no gods interfere in anything.

I read Pompeii. Really interesting look at the days before the eruption of Vesuvius and the eruption itself. (Historical fiction)

#4 -- Iran -- with Things I've Been Silent About, a memoir by Azar Nafisi. It was rather heavy and conetmplative but very well written and her relationship with her mother was in many ways too familiar.

I realized I wasn't going to finish The Lost Secrets of Maya Technology last month, so I hopped on Hoopla and grabbed Ancient Medicine by Hippocrates. The George Easton narration was wooden (I would've sworn it was automated) and the text was pretty boring except for his rant about cheese. Apparently the dude was lactose intolerant. He finally admitted that some people can survive cheese.