Tamussino: Thanks for the rec, but alas! I can't get an e-book copy, which is what I'm looking for right now. I'll keep it on my eventual list, though.
Scott vs. Amundsen: Not yet, solely because there's administrative overhead to each new work I transfer to my reader, which is why I'm currently going for several-hundred page works that will keep me occupied for weeks at a time. But I will read it at some point!
I might go for Montefiore's Romanovs next, since I know from his Potemkin book that I can handle his prose in German, the book is super long, and most of it is 19th and early 20th century, which I'm moderately interested in.
If I can get past this hump of reading moderately interesting things, I'm super looking forward to all those Fritz- and Katte-related books you summarized for us!
(Anything good on Louis XIII or Louis XIV? Your problematic stupor mundi fave? Other medieval or Renaissance faves? Preferably books written in the last 20 years or as popular as Zweig, so I have a chance of getting them in e-book format.)
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Date: 2022-01-22 07:44 pm (UTC)Tamussino: Thanks for the rec, but alas! I can't get an e-book copy, which is what I'm looking for right now. I'll keep it on my eventual list, though.
Scott vs. Amundsen: Not yet, solely because there's administrative overhead to each new work I transfer to my reader, which is why I'm currently going for several-hundred page works that will keep me occupied for weeks at a time. But I will read it at some point!
But Fouché is now on my short list, never fear! Purely because my needs have shifted: I used to need works where I was SUPER into the content, in order to motivate me to gird my loins and re-enter the fray with German day after day after day. Now that it's less of a battle, I'm specifically looking for things I'm only moderately interested in, so that constant Googling of super-interesting content doesn't distract me from reading as much as possible. Hence the Burgundians I'm getting close to finishing up and my eyeing of Charles V.
I might go for Montefiore's Romanovs next, since I know from his Potemkin book that I can handle his prose in German, the book is super long, and most of it is 19th and early 20th century, which I'm moderately interested in.
If I can get past this hump of reading moderately interesting things, I'm super looking forward to all those Fritz- and Katte-related books you summarized for us!
(Anything good on Louis XIII or Louis XIV? Your problematic stupor mundi fave? Other medieval or Renaissance faves? Preferably books written in the last 20 years or as popular as Zweig, so I have a chance of getting them in e-book format.)