I'd like to write something regarding Europe.
By now I'm reading some of these very useful books, sorta "a very short and brief and remarkably easy history of ??? for dumb dummies" with "Europe" and "Germany" replacing ???.
For precisions' sake it's "A concise history of Germany" by Mary Fullbrook and "A very short introduction on the European Union" by J.Pinder & S.USherwood.
They come from the Cambridge and Oxford university press, respectively, so despite being "simplified soups" for those without teeth, they are authoritative enough.
What I'm reading so far about EU is amazing. I've never known France had such an influential role over the other countries. But I'll give you later more insight on the topic, by now my time is nearly over and the book is just at its beginnings.
The Germany book is interesting too, spanning over a thousand years of Mitteleuropean people history (it is, in fact, difficult to talk about Germany as a whole, since its borders and people moved and changed over the centuries). Germans are a very complex pot of peoples and dialects and traditions, and I love them the way they are... Ah, Germany... I'd love to be there again. Sneaking a glance over the roofs from my 20 squared meters "attic" (though attic sounds too nice... it was more of a loft... though it sounds still too good... anyways whatever you might call that pit, I loved it) and giving a glance to the tall Münster. That was life. No anxiety, no Berlusconi on front page anymore, your city major is not a thief, working on a world famous company and your career just at its beginnings, with free tea in the afternoon, a metal guy as a peer and a bear-ish Italian as a boss.
I smell some fresh air from the north, my way is going north again, I know that.
Possibly bringing some more colours to this blog again.
Ok, dreams fade away. I'm gonna read my Germany history for a while, trying to better understand that crazy people once again.
Bye everyone
