‘Lindsey Davis’s top 10 Roman books’ – Historical novelist Lindsey Davis skims her nine shelves of Roman books to provide a list of her ten favourites for The Guardian. Careful to pick out titles that are, in Lindsay’s own words ‘scholarly but user-friendly’, this is is a handy little list that isn’t too much on the dry side (and trust me, after two years of studying Classical Rome at university, I learned there are some super-dry books out there).
New Yorker Launches Book Club – The New Yorker launched its online book club today with the purpose of reading and discussing a key book each month. They set the ball rolling in this month of February with Richard Yates’ hotly topical Revolutionary Road. All well and good but as we’re already into the third week of month, does that mean book club participants who haven’t read this yet are going to have go some? (or am I just being stupid?). ::via GalleyCat
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Thank you for the list of Roman books, I’m heading to Italy in June and am just starting to look for reading for the trip. You’re timing couldnt be better. Given your background, let me know if you have any additional suggestions.
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Kim my pleasure (although of course Lindsay is more deserving of your gratitude). As for recommendations from me? Oh dear! The multitude of books I had to read were more on politics, imperial expansion, monetary systems etc. so I’m not sure if that’s the kind of books you’re looking for? Is your particular interest in Ancient Rome or are you also going over to Italy because of a love for art i.e. Renaissance etc.? (hehehe I did a year of Art History as well
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