Once again, I'm joining Bout of Books, the most low-key readathon of them all. It's pretty simple, read whatever for a week! There are daily photo challenges, some themes, and plenty of opportunities to interact with other readers. Here's what the organizers have to say:
The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 10th and runs through Sunday, May 16th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 31 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team
The last BoB was at the very beginning of my research leave, but was interrupted by the right wing attack on the election certification at the capitol, so I pretty much forgot about it. Since January, I've finished a very rough draft of my first chapter, though I sill have research to do to fill in the gaps, but I'm following my plan to begin work on my third chapter. I'll mostly be reading books about the U.S. policies of De-Nazification immediately after WWII. Some of the books on my TBR for this period include Telford Taylor's
memoir of the Nuremberg Trials, Raymond Geuss's edited
collection of documents of Frankfurt School recommendations on De-Nazification; Susan Neiman's
Learning from the Germans, Norman Goda's
Tales From Spandau, and one that is possibly more of a "page-turner," the
Nine Lives of Otto Katz.
As usual, I'm hoping I'll take more time to blog than I did last time, when concerns about the insurrection took over. Also, I wound up writing some short pieces that were published elsewhere during the last readathon, so here they are.
One was an accompaniment to my essay on Fascism in the new
Keywords for American Cultural Studies textbook, and the other was a longer version of that, an analysis of debates among historians and political scientists about whether or not Trumpism is a form of
fascism.
