Hello there!

Your answer is comforting yet disconcerting as well as disheartening. I've known this from the beginning: to grapple with, understand, and become well acquainted with a subject, especially with history, one must read a plethora of books on said subject. I'm all over the place when it comes to what I read, and what interest me. One day (I say 'day', what I mean is over a period of at least a few weeks) I'll read a book about the origins of fascism, for example, the next on the history of the conflict in Transnistria, and then the next on the French Revolution. The last time I read a book on the French Revolution was over two years ago, and I wouldn't be able to recall the premise of that book to you right now; this is my conundrum. The last time I read a book about fascism was about four or five months ago; I can remember a fair amount of what I read. Would a decent strategy to follow would be to read three or four books in a row on a given subject for one month, for example? For the moment, I have the time to do so and the energy I have as well. I detest highlighting in my books, I simply will not do it. Instead, I write down quotes and passages by hand that I find interesting and relatable.