Nov 26, 2025
Have you read Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (2021)?
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Have you read Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (2021)?
yes
no
I've read parts of it
I've never heard of it
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oh man I'm gonna need a citation for Nigel Saul tearing Dan Jones a new one because that sounds absolutely magical
God, it's so good - I literally think about that review every time I read shitty non-fiction lol
It was published in the 10th July 2009 Times Literary Supplement issue. I don't think it's available for free online anywhere so I'm gonna post screenshots of the review (it's literally titled "Souped up" lmao) and hopefully you can click for better quality
Also very much enjoy the fact that Dan Jones gave an interview where he said that he had originally intended to write a book on Richard II but changed his mind because “Nigel Saul had already written a magnificent biography of him in the Yale series, which was both scholarly and sublimely readable, and that to hope to better that was probably pointless”
I just know the real reason was because he KNEW Nigel was going to absolutely destroy whatever he wrote. He was quaking in his little leather jacket.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a High Page Count
Sometimes the best thing is sinking into a book that’s big enough to live in - the ones that sprawl, linger, pull you down into the world until you’re not entirely sure how much time has passed. These are the long books I love most, the ones that made me lose days (happily):
Mira Grant – Feed 🧪: Political blogging, zombies, and heartbreak, wrapped in sharp commentary. Still one of the most compulsively readable books I’ve ever devoured.
Dan Jones – The Plantagenets 🏰: My go-to history brick. Dramatic, detailed, and dripping with Plantagenet chaos.
Matthew Reilly – Temple 🦎: Action, explosions, ancient curses - it’s cinematic popcorn fun in book form, and gloriously long.
Marian Keyes – This Charming Man 💔: Heartbreaking and brilliant, weaving together multiple perspectives with so much care.
Sharon Kay Penman – The Sunne in Splendour 👑: Historical fiction at its most immersive - York vs Lancaster has never been so vivid.
Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon 🌫️: The Arthurian myth retold with power, spirituality, and women at the center.
Jean M. Auel – The Plains of Passage 🦬: Epic prehistoric journeying, survival, and a whole lot of detail you didn’t know you needed.
Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind 🌪️: Sweeping, messy, dramatic - problematic, yes, but a doorstopper of pure storytelling.
Anne Rice – The Witching Hour 🕯️: Gothic New Orleans atmosphere so thick you can taste it.
Stephen King – The Stand ☣️: The definitive apocalypse brick. Huge, terrifying, and unforgettable.
Do I love short books? Absolutely. But sometimes you want the kind of book that feels like a whole second life.
✨ What’s the longest book you’ve read and loved?
Narcissus is seen [...] as a failed lover who struggled to have empathy with others. He simply doesn't love women the way he should and exists outside of the heteronormative world with all its pressures of marriage and baby-making. [...] Most importantly, it is not just his own reflection that Narcissus falls in love with, but the image of a man.
Dan Jones, Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints and Queerness Through the Ages
What roles does Adam Driver look the sexiest? Here are a few of my picks, but actually think he pretty much looks sexy in them all. Dan Jones from The Report his work ethic is sexy. Flip Zimmerman is a good man and looks sexy with a gun. Toby from The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is A Knight in Shining Armor.
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Last week, we looked at the story of Richard II and Henry IV, and the way these two cousins wielded the power of the English crown. This wee
Halo 2 shenanigans with jhobs, Barry, Dan, and keizaron
Anna Komnene’s gift to both her beloved parents and to scholarship was to compose, late in life, a long history of her father’s reign: the first major Western history by a woman. Written in Greek and with a heavily exculpatory skew, her book, known as the Alexiad, narrated, justified and excused the events between Alexios’s rise to power in 1081 and his death in 1118. It provided an extraordinary insight into the fraught politics of the Byzantine Empire at the turn of the twelfth century. The Alexiad was alive with gossip, insider knowledge, portraits of Byzantines, their friends and their foes, battle stories, tangled tales of political intrigue and effortless scholarly allusions to historians of past times.
from Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands, by Dan Jones