Deep Diving in '24 (Hold Your Breath). 

I’ve been feeling for some time now that my reading is a little too.... scattershot. Sometimes it feels like my Butterfly Mind is on steroids or ‘speed’. Part of the problem, if it IS a problem, is that I’m interested in too much (if such a thing is even possible) and want to touch base with these interests as often as possible – only for them to get crowded out by other ‘urgent’ interests. So, I’m going to attempt to harness my butterfly and get it to focus on a narrower subject for more than a single book. I’m calling these episodes ‘Deep Dives’ (previously known as ‘Book Blitzes’) although the name might be a bit of a misnomer as ‘deep’ will often mean TWO books on a subject read in close conjunction rather than a stand-alone read. Other times this will stretch to a more logical THREE books, but it won’t often go beyond that – at least not quite yet. As you might expect I already have a few ideas buzzing around (not unlike a butterfly) in my head and have even been going through some of my book piles digging out volumes to create mini or micro stacks. So far, I’ve come up with a few ideas: 

American Isolationism
The Liberation of Paris (1944)
Whales
The Battle of Britain
Amritsar (1919)
1914
1066
Tanks
Political Geography
Witch Hunting
Abandoned Places
Roman Britain
The Channel Island Occupation

Some of this is to fill in gaps in my knowledge highlighted by other reading. Some of it will be my attempt to fill out some of my more neglected label buckets. Some of it will get larger projects moving (or started!) and some of it will be to simply reduce a stack of like-minded books to more sensible proportions. If you have any ideas for ‘deep dives’ I could do, of if you’d like me to prioritise any of the above feel free to let me know. Oh, and being me, this will (of course) be subject to change if the butterfly manages to wriggle free of its harness (or I get distracted by something too shiny to resist).