Reading – The Hour of History

#ReadQuixote

by StevenBlog Posts, Book and a Backpack February 17, 2022No Comments

On Twitter, Adam James Smith has started an every-Friday #ReadQuixote trend where people read Don Quixote chapter by chapter every week of the year (DQ has 52 chapters). I picked up Don Quixote at a thrift shop in Philly years ago, not too far from the Don Quixote statue Spain donated to the City of …

Free Books

by StevenBlog Posts, Book and a Backpack December 10, 2021No Comments

It is always exciting to get an email from a publisher who wants to promote a new book. It wasn’t until about a year into the creation of the Hour of History Podcast that publishers started reaching out to me about new books. Before the pandemic, they would say that a book was in the …