thecontentreader5 days ago1 min readClassic Club Spin #39Time for another spin with the Classic Club . Here are the simple rules. Publish a post on your blog before Sunday 20th October 2024. Add...
thecontentreaderOct 42 min readNonfiction November 2024Nonfiction November is coming up. One of my favourite challenges. Thank you so much to the hostesses for this year's event. Here are the...
thecontentreaderOct 33 min readCC Spin #38 - The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset MaughamConcerning the title (from Wikipedia). " The novel's title comes from a translation of a verse in the Katha Upanishad, paraphrased in the...
thecontentreaderOct 35 min readSeptember Reading Wrap-upSeptember is gone and we have been travelling this month, and still are. We did Sardinia with our camper van and am now in Corsica....
thecontentreaderSep 124 min readThe World of Yesterday; Memoirs of a European by Stefan ZweigStefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian author, born in Vienna in the then Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In the 1920s and '30s, at the...
thecontentreaderSep 24 min readWas August's Reading a Hit or Miss? Let's Find Out!August has come to an end, and as the days grow shorter, it's the perfect time to reflect on the books I read in August. Whether you...
thecontentreaderAug 215 min readThe Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher ClarkRepublished from my old website This is a very complex book about finding the cause to the First World War. It is not possible to point...
thecontentreaderAug 215 min readThe Lonely Empress by Joan HaslipRepublished from my old website. The Lonely Empress is a biography about Elizabeth of Austria. Known as Sisi she has mesmerised a whole...
thecontentreaderAug 215 min readThe Habsburgs by Andrew WheatcroftI am presently travelling in Austria and, if you are interested, you can read about my trips on The Content Reader newsletter . My next...