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History book recs?
Apr. 15th, 2015 04:29 pmHey, does anyone know any really, really readable (like, relatively fast-moving, more stories-about-people than theory-driven, fun) books about New York/Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s, and/or about World War II?
Asking for a friend.
(Who is writing an Avengers fanfic.)
(And is me.)
(I'm aware that the world does not have a dearth of Avengers fanfic, but-- I'm having fun. I haven't had this kind of enjoyment and enthusiasm for writing for over a year. Most of the past year, I've either not written at all, or felt like I was dredging words out of my brain with a fork, and they weren't even very good words. But this-- I'm writing every time I've got a spare minute, and I'm finding more of them than I thought I had. I have about 15.5k words so far, and I like the words I've got. And if this fic is nothing but fun for me and food for my id-- well, those are still good things! So I am writing it. And book recommendations would be really helpful-- I have a hard time getting through a lot of nonfiction, especially if it's dense, but I trust you guys to have some good ideas!)
--R
Asking for a friend.
(Who is writing an Avengers fanfic.)
(And is me.)
(I'm aware that the world does not have a dearth of Avengers fanfic, but-- I'm having fun. I haven't had this kind of enjoyment and enthusiasm for writing for over a year. Most of the past year, I've either not written at all, or felt like I was dredging words out of my brain with a fork, and they weren't even very good words. But this-- I'm writing every time I've got a spare minute, and I'm finding more of them than I thought I had. I have about 15.5k words so far, and I like the words I've got. And if this fic is nothing but fun for me and food for my id-- well, those are still good things! So I am writing it. And book recommendations would be really helpful-- I have a hard time getting through a lot of nonfiction, especially if it's dense, but I trust you guys to have some good ideas!)
--R
