Currently reading The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell and the book I finished before it was Knellers Happy Campers by Edgar Kenet which is a short story that was adapted into a movie in like 06 called Wristcutters about a guy who kills himself and goes to an afterlife for all the people who committed suicide. I learned it was based on the short story so I found it for cheap and read it
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"The Anarchy" by William Dalrymple, which is about the rise of the British East India Company and it's consolidating into the largest power in south Asia.
Not the best Dalrymple so far, Return of a King reads a lot better. Some lefty bullshit, but Lord knows how bad it can get with historical non fiction these days, it's actually not too bad.
Before that I read I was reading "The Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky. Not a great book, it could easily be cut by a third.
The Basques are an extremely ancient and interesting people, but since there's so little recorded history (their language only being written in the 16th century) the book focuses too much on 19th and early 20th century history. And really gets bogged down on Franco, Hitler, the bombing of Guernica and all that "mustache man evil " sort of shit.
Sounds very interesting. I’m not very familiar with Basque history outside of the Guernica painting by Picasso